McGill University Arts Building
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The McGill University Arts Building is the historic central building of McGill’s Faculty of Arts in Montreal, housing key humanities departments and serving as one of the university’s most iconic landmarks.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McGill University Arts Building canonical | 2 |
| McGill Arts Building | 1 |
| McGill University Arts Building (general campus) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4056592 — 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: McGill University Arts Building Context triple: [Department of Philosophy (McGill University), locatedIn, McGill University Arts Building]
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A.
Students’ Society of McGill University Building
The Students’ Society of McGill University Building is a central student hub at McGill University that houses student government offices, services, and social spaces on the downtown Montreal campus.
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B.
McGill Engineering Student Centre
The McGill Engineering Student Centre is a dedicated hub at McGill University that provides academic, career, and community support services tailored to engineering students.
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C.
Macdonald-Stewart Building
The Macdonald-Stewart Building is a key academic and research facility located on McGill University’s Macdonald Campus, supporting programs in agricultural, environmental, and related sciences.
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D.
McMaster Hall
McMaster Hall was the original name of McMaster University, a Canadian institution of higher education and research based in Hamilton, Ontario.
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E.
Redpath Library Building
The Redpath Library Building is a historic academic library at McGill University in downtown Montreal, known for its distinctive architecture and central role in the university’s research and study life.
- 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: McGill University Arts Building Target entity description: The McGill University Arts Building is the historic central building of McGill’s Faculty of Arts in Montreal, housing key humanities departments and serving as one of the university’s most iconic landmarks.
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A.
Students’ Society of McGill University Building
The Students’ Society of McGill University Building is a central student hub at McGill University that houses student government offices, services, and social spaces on the downtown Montreal campus.
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B.
McGill Engineering Student Centre
The McGill Engineering Student Centre is a dedicated hub at McGill University that provides academic, career, and community support services tailored to engineering students.
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C.
Macdonald-Stewart Building
The Macdonald-Stewart Building is a key academic and research facility located on McGill University’s Macdonald Campus, supporting programs in agricultural, environmental, and related sciences.
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D.
McMaster Hall
McMaster Hall was the original name of McMaster University, a Canadian institution of higher education and research based in Hamilton, Ontario.
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E.
Redpath Library Building
The Redpath Library Building is a historic academic library at McGill University in downtown Montreal, known for its distinctive architecture and central role in the university’s research and study life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
campus landmark
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heritage building ⓘ university academic building ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Faculty of Arts (McGill University)
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surface form:
McGill University Faculty of Arts
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| architecturalStyle | neoclassical architecture ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
humanities disciplines
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liberal arts education ⓘ social sciences ⓘ |
| 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 ⓘ |
| function |
administrative offices for Faculty of Arts
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classroom building ⓘ houses humanities departments ⓘ lecture halls ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Arts Building
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surface form:
Arts Building steps
central pavilion ⓘ cupola ⓘ flagpole ⓘ front lawn ⓘ wings ⓘ |
| hasView |
McGill University lower field
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Mount Royal ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic building of McGill University ⓘ |
| isPartOf | McGill University lower campus ⓘ |
| language |
English
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French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Canada
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McGill University ⓘ Montreal ⓘ Quebec, Canada ⓘ
surface form:
Quebec
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| material | stone ⓘ |
| near |
McGill University Morrice Hall
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Redpath Museum (McGill University) ⓘ
surface form:
McGill University Redpath Museum
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| operator | McGill University ⓘ |
| ownedBy | McGill University ⓘ |
| province |
Quebec, Canada
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surface form:
Quebec
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| significance |
central symbol of McGill University Faculty of Arts
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iconic landmark of McGill University ⓘ oldest surviving building on McGill campus ⓘ |
| usedBy |
administrative staff of Faculty of Arts
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faculty of McGill University ⓘ students of McGill University ⓘ |
| usedFor |
faculty offices
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research ⓘ student advising ⓘ 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: McGill University Arts Building Description of subject: The McGill University Arts Building is the historic central building of McGill’s Faculty of Arts in Montreal, housing key humanities departments and serving as one of the university’s most iconic landmarks.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (McGill University)
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locatedIn
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McGill University Arts Building
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this entity surface form:
McGill University Arts Building (general campus)
this entity surface form:
McGill Arts Building