Beirut clock tower
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The Beirut clock tower is a prominent early 20th-century landmark in downtown Beirut, known for its four-faced clock and central position in the city’s historic Nejmeh Square.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Beirut clock tower canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6531026 — 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: Beirut clock tower Context triple: [Place de l'Étoile, hasPart, Beirut clock tower]
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A.
Clock Tower of Tunis
The Clock Tower of Tunis is a modern steel timepiece monument and prominent city symbol located at the central intersection of downtown Tunis.
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B.
Beirut Hippodrome
Beirut Hippodrome is a historic horse racing track and green space in central Beirut, often used for equestrian events and public gatherings.
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C.
Blue Mosque of Beirut
The Blue Mosque of Beirut is a prominent Sunni Muslim mosque in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, known for its large blue dome and Ottoman-inspired architecture.
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D.
Lebanese Parliament Building
The Lebanese Parliament Building is a historic legislative complex in downtown Beirut that houses Lebanon’s National Assembly and serves as a symbol of the country’s parliamentary democracy.
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E.
Baghdad Tower
Baghdad Tower is a prominent telecommunications and observation tower in Baghdad, Iraq, known as a modern city landmark.
- 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: Beirut clock tower Target entity description: The Beirut clock tower is a prominent early 20th-century landmark in downtown Beirut, known for its four-faced clock and central position in the city’s historic Nejmeh Square.
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A.
Clock Tower of Tunis
The Clock Tower of Tunis is a modern steel timepiece monument and prominent city symbol located at the central intersection of downtown Tunis.
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B.
Beirut Hippodrome
Beirut Hippodrome is a historic horse racing track and green space in central Beirut, often used for equestrian events and public gatherings.
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C.
Blue Mosque of Beirut
The Blue Mosque of Beirut is a prominent Sunni Muslim mosque in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, known for its large blue dome and Ottoman-inspired architecture.
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D.
Lebanese Parliament Building
The Lebanese Parliament Building is a historic legislative complex in downtown Beirut that houses Lebanon’s National Assembly and serves as a symbol of the country’s parliamentary democracy.
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E.
Baghdad Tower
Baghdad Tower is a prominent telecommunications and observation tower in Baghdad, Iraq, known as a modern city landmark.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
clock tower
ⓘ
landmark ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | early 20th-century architecture ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Beirut
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Tourist attractions in Beirut ⓘ Towers in Lebanon ⓘ |
| country | Lebanon ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| function |
city landmark
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orientation point in downtown Beirut ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
elevated tower structure
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four clock faces ⓘ |
| hasPart | four-faced clock ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic urban landmark ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Beirut
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Downtown Beirut NERFINISHED ⓘ Lebanon NERFINISHED ⓘ Nejmeh Square NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Beirut Central District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| position | central position in Nejmeh Square ⓘ |
| significance | prominent landmark in downtown Beirut ⓘ |
| surroundedBy | Nejmeh Square buildings ⓘ |
| usedFor |
public clock
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timekeeping ⓘ |
| visibleFrom | Nejmeh Square NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Beirut clock tower Description of subject: The Beirut clock tower is a prominent early 20th-century landmark in downtown Beirut, known for its four-faced clock and central position in the city’s historic Nejmeh Square.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Place de l'Étoile
subject surface form:
Place de l'Étoile