Old College, University of Edinburgh

E713462

university building

Old College at the University of Edinburgh is a historic neoclassical building in the university’s central area, housing the School of Law and key administrative offices.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Old College, University of Edinburgh canonical	2

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	university building ⓘ
architecturalStyle	Neoclassical architecture ⓘ
campus	Central Area campus of the University of Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ
category	Buildings of the University of Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ Category A listed buildings in Edinburgh ⓘ Neoclassical architecture in Scotland ⓘ
constructionStart	1789 ⓘ
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
function	university administration building ⓘ
hasArchitect	Robert Adam NERFINISHED ⓘ William Henry Playfair NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasCoordinate	55.948°N 3.187°W ⓘ
hasCourtyard	Old College quadrangle NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasDome	Old College Dome NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasFunction	symbolic centre of the University of Edinburgh ⓘ
hasPart	Old College Dome NERFINISHED ⓘ Old College Quad NERFINISHED ⓘ Playfair Library Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasRenovation	20th century restoration ⓘ 21st century refurbishment of law facilities ⓘ
hasUse	ceremonial events ⓘ offices ⓘ teaching ⓘ
heritageDesignation	Listed building in Scotland ⓘ
heritageStatus	Category A listed building ⓘ
houses	Edinburgh Law School NERFINISHED ⓘ School of Law, University of Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ
inception	late 18th century ⓘ
locatedIn	Edinburgh ⓘ Edinburgh city centre NERFINISHED ⓘ Scotland ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ
material	sandstone ⓘ
near	George Square campus of the University of Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ National Museum of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal Mile NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFor	Playfair Library Hall interior NERFINISHED ⓘ central quadrangle ⓘ neoclassical façade ⓘ
ownedBy	University of Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	University of Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ
significantEvent	completion of Playfair’s design in the 19th century ⓘ
streetAddress	South Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ
touristAttraction	yes ⓘ
usedFor	legal education ⓘ university governance ⓘ

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: Old College, University of Edinburgh
Description of subject: Old College at the University of Edinburgh is a historic neoclassical building in the university’s central area, housing the School of Law and key administrative offices.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

University Court → meetsAt → Old College, University of Edinburgh ⓘ

subject surface form: University Court (University of Edinburgh)

Chambers Street → hasBuilding → Old College, University of Edinburgh ⓘ