Durham University Library and Collections
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Durham University Library and Collections is the academic library and heritage collections service of Durham University, providing access to scholarly resources, archives, and special collections for study and research.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Durham University Library and Collections canonical | 8 |
| Durham University Library | 1 |
| Durham University Library system | 1 |
| Durham University libraries | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T491128 — 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: Durham University Library and Collections Context triple: [Durham University, hasLibrarySystem, Durham University Library and Collections]
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Cambridge University Library
Cambridge University Library is the principal research library of the University of Cambridge and one of the UK's legal deposit libraries, holding millions of books, manuscripts, and special collections.
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B.
Durham Museum
The Durham Museum is a history and culture museum housed in Omaha’s historic Union Station, featuring exhibits on the region’s past, railroading, and American heritage.
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Durham University
Durham University is a prestigious collegiate public research university in Durham, England, renowned for its strong academic reputation and historic campus.
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Duke University Libraries
Duke University Libraries is the academic library system serving Duke University, providing extensive research collections, digital resources, and scholarly support services to students, faculty, and researchers.
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E.
John Rylands University Library
John Rylands University Library is the main academic library of the University of Manchester, renowned for its extensive research collections and historic special holdings.
- 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: Durham University Library and Collections Target entity description: Durham University Library and Collections is the academic library and heritage collections service of Durham University, providing access to scholarly resources, archives, and special collections for study and research.
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A.
Cambridge University Library
Cambridge University Library is the principal research library of the University of Cambridge and one of the UK's legal deposit libraries, holding millions of books, manuscripts, and special collections.
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B.
Durham Museum
The Durham Museum is a history and culture museum housed in Omaha’s historic Union Station, featuring exhibits on the region’s past, railroading, and American heritage.
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C.
Durham University
Durham University is a prestigious collegiate public research university in Durham, England, renowned for its strong academic reputation and historic campus.
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D.
Duke University Libraries
Duke University Libraries is the academic library system serving Duke University, providing extensive research collections, digital resources, and scholarly support services to students, faculty, and researchers.
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E.
John Rylands University Library
John Rylands University Library is the main academic library of the University of Manchester, renowned for its extensive research collections and historic special holdings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic library system
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heritage collections service ⓘ research library ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Durham Cathedral archives and heritage environment at Palace Green ⓘ |
| collectionType |
academic journals
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archives ⓘ databases ⓘ e-books ⓘ e-journals ⓘ early printed books ⓘ manuscripts ⓘ maps ⓘ photographs ⓘ printed books ⓘ rare books ⓘ special collections ⓘ university records ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
support for learning
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support for research ⓘ support for teaching ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Archives and Special Collections
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Barker Research Library ⓘ Bill Bryson Library ⓘ College libraries of Durham University ⓘ Museum of Archaeology collections (library-managed components) ⓘ Oriental Museum library and collections (library-managed components) ⓘ Palace Green Library ⓘ Teaching and Learning Centre Library spaces ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Durham University
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Durham, England ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Durham Castle
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Durham Cathedral ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Durham University ⓘ |
| partOf | Durham University ⓘ |
| providesService |
archives and special collections reader services
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digital collections access ⓘ document delivery ⓘ information literacy training ⓘ inter-library loans ⓘ open access support ⓘ reading list support ⓘ research data management support ⓘ subject liaison services ⓘ |
| sector | higher education ⓘ |
| serves |
Durham University staff
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Durham University students ⓘ external researchers ⓘ |
| website | https://www.durham.ac.uk/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: Durham University Library and Collections Description of subject: Durham University Library and Collections is the academic library and heritage collections service of Durham University, providing access to scholarly resources, archives, and special collections for study and research.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Durham University Library system
this entity surface form:
Durham University Library
Museum of Archaeology collections (library-managed components)
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managedBy
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Durham University Library and Collections
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Museum of Archaeology collections (library-managed components)
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curatedBy
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Durham University Library and Collections
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Oriental Museum library and collections (library-managed components)
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partOf
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Durham University Library and Collections
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Oriental Museum library and collections (library-managed components)
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operator
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Durham University Library and Collections
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this entity surface form:
Durham University libraries