Boyd Orr Building
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The Boyd Orr Building is a major teaching and research facility at the University of Glasgow, known for housing science departments and large lecture theatres.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Boyd Orr Building canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4801960 — 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: Boyd Orr Building Context triple: [Gilmorehill campus, hasFacility, Boyd Orr Building]
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A.
Russell-Knox Building
The Russell-Knox Building is a major U.S. military office complex at Marine Corps Base Quantico that houses the headquarters of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and other defense investigative agencies.
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B.
The David Williams Building
The David Williams Building is a modern facility that houses the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Law, providing teaching spaces, offices, and resources for legal education and research.
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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.
Roger Stevens Building
The Roger Stevens Building is a prominent modernist lecture theatre complex at the University of Leeds, noted for its distinctive brutalist architecture and central role in campus teaching.
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E.
Alfred Denny Building
The Alfred Denny Building is a major academic and research facility at the University of Sheffield, primarily housing the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences and related biological sciences.
- 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: Boyd Orr Building Target entity description: The Boyd Orr Building is a major teaching and research facility at the University of Glasgow, known for housing science departments and large lecture theatres.
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A.
Russell-Knox Building
The Russell-Knox Building is a major U.S. military office complex at Marine Corps Base Quantico that houses the headquarters of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and other defense investigative agencies.
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B.
The David Williams Building
The David Williams Building is a modern facility that houses the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Law, providing teaching spaces, offices, and resources for legal education and research.
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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.
Roger Stevens Building
The Roger Stevens Building is a prominent modernist lecture theatre complex at the University of Leeds, noted for its distinctive brutalist architecture and central role in campus teaching.
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E.
Alfred Denny Building
The Alfred Denny Building is a major academic and research facility at the University of Sheffield, primarily housing the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences and related biological sciences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
research facility
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teaching facility ⓘ university building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | modernist architecture ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures of the University of Glasgow
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University and college science buildings in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| contains |
catering facilities
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computer clusters ⓘ lecture theatres ⓘ offices ⓘ research laboratories ⓘ social spaces ⓘ study spaces ⓘ teaching laboratories ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
elevators
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high-rise tower section ⓘ laboratory floors ⓘ multiple lecture theatres ⓘ podium block ⓘ service areas ⓘ stairwells ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
administration
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scientific research ⓘ teaching ⓘ |
| isPartOf | University of Glasgow estate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Glasgow
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Scotland ⓘ University of Glasgow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
John Boyd Orr
NERFINISHED
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John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedBy | University of Glasgow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | University of Glasgow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Gilmorehill campus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy | science departments of the University of Glasgow ⓘ |
| usedFor |
large lectures
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postgraduate teaching ⓘ research activities ⓘ undergraduate 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: Boyd Orr Building Description of subject: The Boyd Orr Building is a major teaching and research facility at the University of Glasgow, known for housing science departments and large lecture theatres.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.