Old Bailey
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The Old Bailey is London's historic central criminal court, renowned for hosting many of the city's most significant and high-profile trials.
All labels observed (13)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1943119 — 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: Old Bailey Context triple: [Witness for the Prosecution, setting, Old Bailey]
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King’s Bench
King’s Bench was a senior common law court in England and Wales that primarily dealt with criminal matters and cases involving the Crown.
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King's Bench Prison
King's Bench Prison was a notorious London jail primarily used for debtors and those awaiting trial under the jurisdiction of the Court of King's Bench.
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Court of Oyer and Terminer
The Court of Oyer and Terminer was a special colonial Massachusetts tribunal notorious for conducting the Salem witch trials of 1692, during which it authorized numerous executions for alleged witchcraft.
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Bloody Assizes
The Bloody Assizes were a series of harsh judicial trials in 1685, led by Judge George Jeffreys to punish supporters of the Monmouth Rebellion with mass executions and transportations.
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Court of Chivalry
The Court of Chivalry was a historic English civil law court concerned with matters of heraldry, nobility, and military honor, traditionally presided over by the Earl Marshal.
- 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: Old Bailey Target entity description: The Old Bailey is London's historic central criminal court, renowned for hosting many of the city's most significant and high-profile trials.
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A.
King’s Bench
King’s Bench was a senior common law court in England and Wales that primarily dealt with criminal matters and cases involving the Crown.
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B.
King's Bench Prison
King's Bench Prison was a notorious London jail primarily used for debtors and those awaiting trial under the jurisdiction of the Court of King's Bench.
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C.
Court of Oyer and Terminer
The Court of Oyer and Terminer was a special colonial Massachusetts tribunal notorious for conducting the Salem witch trials of 1692, during which it authorized numerous executions for alleged witchcraft.
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D.
Bloody Assizes
The Bloody Assizes were a series of harsh judicial trials in 1685, led by Judge George Jeffreys to punish supporters of the Monmouth Rebellion with mass executions and transportations.
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E.
Court of Chivalry
The Court of Chivalry was a historic English civil law court concerned with matters of heraldry, nobility, and military honor, traditionally presided over by the Earl Marshal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 Bailey Description of subject: The Old Bailey is London's historic central criminal court, renowned for hosting many of the city's most significant and high-profile trials.
Referenced by (51)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Horace Rumpole (fictional character)
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subject linked to:
Farringdon Street, London, England
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Great Hall
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Great Hall
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nursery rhyme "Oranges and Lemons"