Ferrier Building
E392089
The Ferrier Building is an academic facility located on the downtown Montreal campus of a major university, housing classrooms, offices, and related educational spaces.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Birks Building | 1 |
| Ferrier Building canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3851013 — 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: Ferrier Building Context triple: [Downtown Montreal campus, hasPart, Ferrier Building]
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A.
Michael Sadler Building
The Michael Sadler Building is a prominent academic and lecture complex at the University of Leeds, named after the influential educationalist Sir Michael Sadler.
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B.
Parkside Building
Parkside Building is a major teaching and creative hub of Birmingham City University, housing its art, design, and media facilities in a modern, purpose-built campus space.
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C.
Porteous Building
The Porteous Building is the historic flagship facility of the Maine College of Art & Design in downtown Portland, Maine, housing its studios, classrooms, and galleries.
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D.
Cripps Building
Cripps Building is a large modern accommodation and teaching complex at St John’s College, Cambridge, known for its distinctive 1960s architecture and extensive student facilities.
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E.
William Stone Building
The William Stone Building is a prominent modernist residential and teaching block at Peterhouse, Cambridge, known for its distinctive architectural style and views over the college gardens.
- 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: Ferrier Building Target entity description: The Ferrier Building is an academic facility located on the downtown Montreal campus of a major university, housing classrooms, offices, and related educational spaces.
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A.
Michael Sadler Building
The Michael Sadler Building is a prominent academic and lecture complex at the University of Leeds, named after the influential educationalist Sir Michael Sadler.
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B.
Parkside Building
Parkside Building is a major teaching and creative hub of Birmingham City University, housing its art, design, and media facilities in a modern, purpose-built campus space.
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C.
Porteous Building
The Porteous Building is the historic flagship facility of the Maine College of Art & Design in downtown Portland, Maine, housing its studios, classrooms, and galleries.
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D.
Cripps Building
Cripps Building is a large modern accommodation and teaching complex at St John’s College, Cambridge, known for its distinctive 1960s architecture and extensive student facilities.
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E.
William Stone Building
The William Stone Building is a prominent modernist residential and teaching block at Peterhouse, Cambridge, known for its distinctive architectural style and views over the college gardens.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic building
ⓘ
university building ⓘ |
| hasCampusType | urban campus ⓘ |
| hasFacilityType |
administrative offices
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classrooms ⓘ faculty offices ⓘ meeting rooms ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
houses classrooms
ⓘ
houses educational spaces ⓘ houses offices ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryUse | higher education ⓘ |
| hasSpaceType |
instructional space
ⓘ
office space ⓘ support space ⓘ |
| isAccessibleTo |
faculty
ⓘ
staff ⓘ students ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Canada
ⓘ
Montreal ⓘ Quebec, Canada ⓘ
surface form:
Quebec
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| locatedOn | downtown Montreal campus ⓘ |
| partOf | a major university campus ⓘ |
| usedFor |
administration
ⓘ
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: Ferrier Building Description of subject: The Ferrier Building is an academic facility located on the downtown Montreal campus of a major university, housing classrooms, offices, and related educational spaces.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Birks Building