Toronto Reference Library
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The Toronto Reference Library is a major public research library in downtown Toronto, renowned for its striking modernist architecture and role as the flagship branch of the Toronto Public Library system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Toronto Reference Library canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5776249 — 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: Toronto Reference Library Context triple: [Moriyama & Teshima Architects, notableWork, Toronto Reference Library]
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A.
North York Central Library
North York Central Library is a major branch of the Toronto Public Library system, serving as a key community and research hub in the North York district of Toronto, Canada.
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B.
Ryerson Library
Ryerson Library is the research library of the Art Institute of Chicago, housing an extensive collection of art history and architecture resources for scholars and students.
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C.
Vaughan Public Libraries
Vaughan Public Libraries is the public library system serving the city of Vaughan, Ontario, providing multiple branches and services to the community.
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D.
Thorncliffe Park Library
Thorncliffe Park Library is a public branch of the Toronto Public Library system serving the Thorncliffe Park neighborhood with books, digital resources, and community programs.
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E.
Vaughan Memorial Library
Vaughan Memorial Library is the main academic library serving the students and faculty of Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
- 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: Toronto Reference Library Target entity description: The Toronto Reference Library is a major public research library in downtown Toronto, renowned for its striking modernist architecture and role as the flagship branch of the Toronto Public Library system.
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A.
North York Central Library
North York Central Library is a major branch of the Toronto Public Library system, serving as a key community and research hub in the North York district of Toronto, Canada.
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B.
Ryerson Library
Ryerson Library is the research library of the Art Institute of Chicago, housing an extensive collection of art history and architecture resources for scholars and students.
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C.
Vaughan Public Libraries
Vaughan Public Libraries is the public library system serving the city of Vaughan, Ontario, providing multiple branches and services to the community.
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D.
Thorncliffe Park Library
Thorncliffe Park Library is a public branch of the Toronto Public Library system serving the Thorncliffe Park neighborhood with books, digital resources, and community programs.
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E.
Vaughan Memorial Library
Vaughan Memorial Library is the main academic library serving the students and faculty of Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
library building
ⓘ
public research library ⓘ |
| architect |
Moriyama & Teshima Architects
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Raymond Moriyama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Brutalist-influenced modernism
ⓘ
Modernist architecture ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| flagshipOf | Toronto Public Library NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCollection |
books
ⓘ
digital resources ⓘ microfilm ⓘ periodicals ⓘ reference materials ⓘ |
| hasComputerAccess | yes ⓘ |
| hasEventSpace | yes ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Arthur Conan Doyle Collection
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bram & Bluma Appel Salon NERFINISHED ⓘ Toronto Star Newspaper Room NERFINISHED ⓘ escalators surrounding central atrium ⓘ large central atrium ⓘ reading rooms ⓘ special collections ⓘ study spaces ⓘ |
| hasFloorCount | 5 ⓘ |
| hasStudyRooms | yes ⓘ |
| hasWiFi | yes ⓘ |
| inception | 1977 ⓘ |
| isNonCirculating | largely yes ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Ontario
ⓘ
Toronto ⓘ downtown Toronto ⓘ |
| near | Yonge Street and Bloor Street intersection NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened | 1977 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Toronto Public Library NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | City of Toronto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Toronto Public Library NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | M4W 2G8 ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
reference services
ⓘ
research ⓘ |
| publicTransitAccess | Bloor–Yonge station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| renovated | 2009–2014 ⓘ |
| serves |
general public
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researchers ⓘ residents of Toronto ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 789 Yonge Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/toronto-reference-library/ ⓘ |
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: Toronto Reference Library Description of subject: The Toronto Reference Library is a major public research library in downtown Toronto, renowned for its striking modernist architecture and role as the flagship branch of the Toronto Public Library system.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.