Leacock Building
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The Leacock Building is a major academic and classroom complex at McGill University’s downtown Montreal campus, housing numerous lecture halls, offices, and social science departments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Leacock Building canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3851007 — 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: Leacock Building Context triple: [Downtown Montreal campus, hasPart, Leacock Building]
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A.
Johnson Building
The Johnson Building is a modernist wing of the Boston Public Library’s Copley Square main branch, known for housing its contemporary collections and public services.
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B.
Scribner Building
The Scribner Building is a historic Beaux-Arts style commercial structure in Manhattan that once housed the prominent American publishing firm Charles Scribner's Sons.
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C.
Broadway–Chambers Building
The Broadway–Chambers Building is an early 20th-century New York City skyscraper renowned for its Beaux-Arts design by architect Cass Gilbert.
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D.
Perelman Building
The Perelman Building is an annex of the Philadelphia Museum of Art known for its Art Deco architecture and galleries dedicated to modern and contemporary design, prints, drawings, and photography.
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E.
McClurg Building
The McClurg Building is a historic Chicago commercial structure recognized as a significant example of early skyscraper design by the architectural firm Holabird & Roche.
- 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: Leacock Building Target entity description: The Leacock Building is a major academic and classroom complex at McGill University’s downtown Montreal campus, housing numerous lecture halls, offices, and social science departments.
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A.
Johnson Building
The Johnson Building is a modernist wing of the Boston Public Library’s Copley Square main branch, known for housing its contemporary collections and public services.
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B.
Scribner Building
The Scribner Building is a historic Beaux-Arts style commercial structure in Manhattan that once housed the prominent American publishing firm Charles Scribner's Sons.
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C.
Broadway–Chambers Building
The Broadway–Chambers Building is an early 20th-century New York City skyscraper renowned for its Beaux-Arts design by architect Cass Gilbert.
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D.
Perelman Building
The Perelman Building is an annex of the Philadelphia Museum of Art known for its Art Deco architecture and galleries dedicated to modern and contemporary design, prints, drawings, and photography.
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E.
McClurg Building
The McClurg Building is a historic Chicago commercial structure recognized as a significant example of early skyscraper design by the architectural firm Holabird & Roche.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic building
ⓘ
classroom building ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Faculty of Arts (McGill University)
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surface form:
McGill University Faculty of Arts
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| campus |
Downtown Campus of McGill University
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surface form:
McGill University Downtown Campus
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| contains |
academic offices
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classrooms ⓘ departmental offices ⓘ lecture halls ⓘ social science departments ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| function |
administration
ⓘ
research ⓘ teaching ⓘ |
| hasType | social sciences building ⓘ |
| languageOfInstitution | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Canada
ⓘ
Downtown Campus of McGill University ⓘ McGill University ⓘ Montreal ⓘ Quebec, Canada ⓘ
surface form:
Quebec
|
| namedAfter | Stephen Leacock ⓘ |
| partOf | McGill University campus infrastructure ⓘ |
| region | North America ⓘ |
| university | McGill University ⓘ |
| usedBy |
faculty
ⓘ
staff ⓘ students ⓘ |
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: Leacock Building Description of subject: The Leacock Building is a major academic and classroom complex at McGill University’s downtown Montreal campus, housing numerous lecture halls, offices, and social science departments.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.