Merchiston Campus
E120078
Merchiston Campus is one of Edinburgh Napier University's main teaching sites, known for housing its computing, engineering, creative industries, and media facilities in Edinburgh, Scotland.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edinburgh Napier University Merchiston campus | 1 |
| Merchiston Campus canonical | 1 |
| Napier University Merchiston Campus | 1 |
| Napier University Merchiston Campus main building | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1034564 — 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: Merchiston Campus Context triple: [Edinburgh Napier University, hasCampus, Merchiston Campus]
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A.
Stirling campus
Stirling campus is the main university campus of the University of Stirling, known for its scenic parkland setting around a loch near the city of Stirling in central Scotland.
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B.
Gilmorehill campus
Gilmorehill campus is the historic main campus of the University of Glasgow, located in the West End of Glasgow, Scotland.
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C.
Kirkcaldy Campus
Kirkcaldy Campus is a satellite campus of the University of Dundee, primarily known for hosting health and nursing-related teaching and research facilities in the town of Kirkcaldy, Scotland.
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D.
Foresterhill campus
Foresterhill campus is the University of Aberdeen’s major health sciences site, housing its medical school, teaching hospital, and key research facilities.
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E.
Edinburgh Campus
Edinburgh Campus is the main and largest campus of Heriot-Watt University, located on the outskirts of Edinburgh and known for its modern facilities and parkland setting.
- 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: Merchiston Campus Target entity description: Merchiston Campus is one of Edinburgh Napier University's main teaching sites, known for housing its computing, engineering, creative industries, and media facilities in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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A.
Stirling campus
Stirling campus is the main university campus of the University of Stirling, known for its scenic parkland setting around a loch near the city of Stirling in central Scotland.
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B.
Gilmorehill campus
Gilmorehill campus is the historic main campus of the University of Glasgow, located in the West End of Glasgow, Scotland.
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C.
Kirkcaldy Campus
Kirkcaldy Campus is a satellite campus of the University of Dundee, primarily known for hosting health and nursing-related teaching and research facilities in the town of Kirkcaldy, Scotland.
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D.
Foresterhill campus
Foresterhill campus is the University of Aberdeen’s major health sciences site, housing its medical school, teaching hospital, and key research facilities.
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E.
Edinburgh Campus
Edinburgh Campus is the main and largest campus of Heriot-Watt University, located on the outskirts of Edinburgh and known for its modern facilities and parkland setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
teaching campus
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university campus ⓘ |
| affiliation | Edinburgh Napier University ⓘ |
| city | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| hasAcademicFocus |
computing
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creative industries ⓘ engineering ⓘ media ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
IT support services
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cafeteria ⓘ classrooms ⓘ computing laboratories ⓘ creative industries studios ⓘ engineering laboratories ⓘ lecture theatres ⓘ library ⓘ media studios ⓘ student social spaces ⓘ study spaces ⓘ |
| hasSpecialisation |
computing and information systems
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creative industries education ⓘ engineering disciplines ⓘ media and communications ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfProgram |
postgraduate programmes
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professional courses ⓘ undergraduate programmes ⓘ |
| isOneOf | main teaching sites of Edinburgh Napier University ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Edinburgh, Scotland
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linked to:
Edinburgh
Merchiston area of Edinburgh ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
UTC+01:00 (daylight saving)
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UTC±00:00 ⓘ |
| operator | Edinburgh Napier University ⓘ |
| partOf | Edinburgh Napier University ⓘ |
| region | Lothian ⓘ |
| serves |
Edinburgh Napier University staff
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Edinburgh Napier University students ⓘ |
| usedFor |
research
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student services ⓘ teaching ⓘ |
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: Merchiston Campus Description of subject: Merchiston Campus is one of Edinburgh Napier University's main teaching sites, known for housing its computing, engineering, creative industries, and media facilities in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Merchiston Campus
subject linked to:
Merchiston area of Edinburgh
linked to: Merchiston Campus
subject linked to:
Merchiston area of Edinburgh
linked to: Merchiston Campus