Burnside Hall
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Burnside Hall is a major academic building at McGill University in downtown Montreal, known for housing mathematics, statistics, and atmospheric science departments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Burnside Hall canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3851011 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Burnside Hall Context triple: [Downtown Montreal campus, hasPart, Burnside Hall]
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A.
Grace Hall
Grace Hall was an American opera singer, music teacher, and the mother of writer Ernest Hemingway.
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B.
Orange Hall
Orange Hall is a notable interior space within the Dutch royal residence Huis ten Bosch Palace, often used for official or ceremonial functions.
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C.
Arlington House plantation
Arlington House plantation was a historic Virginia estate overlooking the Potomac River that later became the core of what is now Arlington National Cemetery.
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D.
Belmont Mansion
Belmont Mansion is a historic estate and former country house in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park, known for its Georgian architecture and role in early American social and political life.
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E.
Grant-Humphreys Mansion
Grant-Humphreys Mansion is a historic Beaux-Arts mansion in Denver, Colorado, known for its association with prominent political figures and its use as an event and cultural venue.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Burnside Hall Target entity description: Burnside Hall is a major academic building at McGill University in downtown Montreal, known for housing mathematics, statistics, and atmospheric science departments.
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A.
Grace Hall
Grace Hall was an American opera singer, music teacher, and the mother of writer Ernest Hemingway.
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B.
Orange Hall
Orange Hall is a notable interior space within the Dutch royal residence Huis ten Bosch Palace, often used for official or ceremonial functions.
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C.
Arlington House plantation
Arlington House plantation was a historic Virginia estate overlooking the Potomac River that later became the core of what is now Arlington National Cemetery.
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D.
Belmont Mansion
Belmont Mansion is a historic estate and former country house in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park, known for its Georgian architecture and role in early American social and political life.
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E.
Grant-Humphreys Mansion
Grant-Humphreys Mansion is a historic Beaux-Arts mansion in Denver, Colorado, known for its association with prominent political figures and its use as an event and cultural venue.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic building
ⓘ
university building ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Faculty of Science (McGill University)
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surface form:
Faculty of Science, McGill University
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| architecturalStyle | Brutalist architecture ⓘ |
| campus |
Downtown Campus of McGill University
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surface form:
McGill University Downtown Campus
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| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| floorCount | 20 ⓘ |
| hasBasement | true ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateSystem | latitude/longitude ⓘ |
| hasElevator | true ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
classrooms
ⓘ
computer laboratories ⓘ meeting rooms ⓘ offices ⓘ research laboratories ⓘ study spaces ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
atmospheric science education
ⓘ
mathematics education ⓘ scientific research ⓘ statistics education ⓘ |
| hasRooftopAccess | true ⓘ |
| housesAcademicUnit |
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (McGill University)
ⓘ
surface form:
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University
Department of Mathematics and Statistics (McGill University) ⓘ
surface form:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University
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| isPartOf | McGill University Faculty of Science infrastructure ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Canada
ⓘ
downtown core of Montreal ⓘ
surface form:
Downtown Montreal
McGill University ⓘ Montreal ⓘ Quebec, Canada ⓘ
surface form:
Quebec
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| material | reinforced concrete ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
William Burnside
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surface form:
William Burnside (mathematician)
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| near |
Leacock Building
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McLennan Library Building ⓘ McTavish Street NERFINISHED ⓘ Redpath Library Building ⓘ |
| operatedBy | McGill University ⓘ |
| ownedBy | McGill University ⓘ |
| partOf |
Downtown Campus of McGill University
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surface form:
McGill University campus
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| usedFor |
administrative offices
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classrooms ⓘ computer labs ⓘ faculty offices ⓘ graduate student offices ⓘ lecture halls ⓘ research ⓘ teaching ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Burnside Hall Description of subject: Burnside Hall is a major academic building at McGill University in downtown Montreal, known for housing mathematics, statistics, and atmospheric science departments.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.