The Bull (bronze sculpture)
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The Bull is a large, iconic bronze sculpture of a charging bull that serves as a landmark and popular meeting point outside Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centre in England.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Bull (bronze sculpture) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13010558 — 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: The Bull (bronze sculpture) Context triple: [Bullring shopping centre, hasPublicArtwork, The Bull (bronze sculpture)]
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A.
Copper Horse statue
The Copper Horse statue is a prominent equestrian monument of King George III that stands on Snow Hill overlooking Windsor Castle in Windsor Great Park, England.
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B.
Smithtown Bull statue
The Smithtown Bull statue is a prominent roadside sculpture in Smithtown, New York, symbolizing the town’s founding legend and serving as a well-known local landmark.
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C.
Two Lions statue
The Two Lions statue is a notable public sculpture in Penrith, serving as a recognizable local landmark and meeting point.
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D.
Lion Monument
The Lion Monument is a famous rock relief sculpture in Lucerne, Switzerland, commemorating Swiss Guards who were killed during the French Revolution.
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E.
Holley statue
The Holley statue is a public monument in New York City's Washington Square Park honoring engineer and industrialist Alexander Lyman Holley, a pioneer of the American steel industry.
- 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: The Bull (bronze sculpture) Target entity description: The Bull is a large, iconic bronze sculpture of a charging bull that serves as a landmark and popular meeting point outside Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centre in England.
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A.
Copper Horse statue
The Copper Horse statue is a prominent equestrian monument of King George III that stands on Snow Hill overlooking Windsor Castle in Windsor Great Park, England.
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B.
Smithtown Bull statue
The Smithtown Bull statue is a prominent roadside sculpture in Smithtown, New York, symbolizing the town’s founding legend and serving as a well-known local landmark.
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C.
Two Lions statue
The Two Lions statue is a notable public sculpture in Penrith, serving as a recognizable local landmark and meeting point.
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D.
Lion Monument
The Lion Monument is a famous rock relief sculpture in Lucerne, Switzerland, commemorating Swiss Guards who were killed during the French Revolution.
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E.
Holley statue
The Holley statue is a public monument in New York City's Washington Square Park honoring engineer and industrialist Alexander Lyman Holley, a pioneer of the American steel industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bronze sculpture
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outdoor artwork ⓘ public sculpture ⓘ |
| accessibleTo | public ⓘ |
| country |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| depicts | charging bull ⓘ |
| genre | figurative sculpture ⓘ |
| hasColor | brown ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
large horns
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lowered head ⓘ muscular body ⓘ raised front leg ⓘ |
| hasPose | charging stance ⓘ |
| isConsidered | icon of Birmingham city centre ⓘ |
| isPhotographedAs | backdrop for visitor photos ⓘ |
| locatedInFrontOf | main entrance of Bullring shopping centre ⓘ |
| location |
Birmingham
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Bullring shopping centre ⓘ |
| material | bronze ⓘ |
| partOf | public realm of Birmingham city centre ⓘ |
| subjectHasRole |
symbol of Bullring shopping centre
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tourist attraction in Birmingham ⓘ |
| use |
landmark
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popular meeting point ⓘ |
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: The Bull (bronze sculpture) Description of subject: The Bull is a large, iconic bronze sculpture of a charging bull that serves as a landmark and popular meeting point outside Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centre in England.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.