Parkinson Building
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Parkinson Building is an iconic white Portland stone landmark and central administrative building of the University of Leeds, renowned for its clock tower and status as a symbol of the university.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Parkinson Building canonical | 4 |
| Parkinson Building clock tower | 1 |
| Parkinson Building complex | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T610318 — 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: Parkinson Building Context triple: [University of Leeds, hasNotableBuilding, Parkinson Building]
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A.
Bloch Building
The Bloch Building is a striking contemporary glass-and-concrete expansion of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, renowned for its luminous “lenses” emerging from the landscape.
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B.
McClurg Building
The McClurg Building is a historic Chicago commercial structure recognized as a significant example of early skyscraper design by the architectural firm Holabird & Roche.
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C.
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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D.
Bradbury Building
The Bradbury Building is a historic architectural landmark in downtown Los Angeles, renowned for its ornate ironwork, open-cage elevators, and dramatic sunlit atrium featured in numerous films.
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E.
Ford Foundation Building
The Ford Foundation Building is a notable modernist office building in Midtown Manhattan, renowned for its innovative indoor garden atrium and its role as the headquarters of the Ford Foundation.
- 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: Parkinson Building Target entity description: Parkinson Building is an iconic white Portland stone landmark and central administrative building of the University of Leeds, renowned for its clock tower and status as a symbol of the university.
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A.
Bloch Building
The Bloch Building is a striking contemporary glass-and-concrete expansion of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, renowned for its luminous “lenses” emerging from the landscape.
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B.
McClurg Building
The McClurg Building is a historic Chicago commercial structure recognized as a significant example of early skyscraper design by the architectural firm Holabird & Roche.
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C.
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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D.
Bradbury Building
The Bradbury Building is a historic architectural landmark in downtown Los Angeles, renowned for its ornate ironwork, open-cage elevators, and dramatic sunlit atrium featured in numerous films.
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E.
Ford Foundation Building
The Ford Foundation Building is a notable modernist office building in Midtown Manhattan, renowned for its innovative indoor garden atrium and its role as the headquarters of the Ford Foundation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative building
ⓘ
clock tower ⓘ landmark ⓘ university building ⓘ |
| architect |
Thomas Arthur Lodge
ⓘ
Thomas Geoffry Lucas ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Art Deco ⓘ |
| category |
Art Deco architecture in England
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Buildings and structures of the University of Leeds ⓘ Clock towers in the United Kingdom ⓘ Grade II listed buildings in Leeds ⓘ |
| color | white ⓘ |
| constructionEnd | 1951 ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 1938 ⓘ |
| coordinates | 53.806°N 1.553°W ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 112 metres above sea level ⓘ |
| function | central administrative building of the University of Leeds ⓘ |
| hasClockTower | true ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Parkinson Building
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Parkinson Building clock tower
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| hasUse |
meeting rooms
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offices ⓘ public events ⓘ reception area ⓘ teaching rooms ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Grade II ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | Grade II listed building ⓘ |
| inception | 1938 ⓘ |
| isIconicFor |
clock tower
ⓘ
white Portland stone façade ⓘ |
| isSymbolOf | University of Leeds ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
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Leeds ⓘ West Yorkshire ⓘ |
| location | University of Leeds ⓘ |
| material | Portland stone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Frank Parkinson ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
grand entrance steps
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large clock faces ⓘ tower visible across Leeds ⓘ |
| numberOfFloors | several ⓘ |
| officialOpeningDate | 1951 ⓘ |
| operator | University of Leeds ⓘ |
| ownedBy | University of Leeds ⓘ |
| partOf |
University of Leeds
ⓘ
surface form:
University of Leeds campus
|
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: Parkinson Building Description of subject: Parkinson Building is an iconic white Portland stone landmark and central administrative building of the University of Leeds, renowned for its clock tower and status as a symbol of the university.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Great Hall (University of Leeds)
this entity surface form:
Parkinson Building complex
this entity surface form:
Parkinson Building clock tower