Law Courts Building, Sydney

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courthouse high-rise building judicial complex office building

The Law Courts Building in Sydney is a major high-rise judicial complex that houses the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the Federal Court of Australia in the city’s central legal district.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Law Courts Building, Queens Square, Sydney	5
Law Courts Building, Sydney canonical	3
NSW Supreme Court precinct	1
Supreme Court building, Sydney	1
Sydney Law Courts Building	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3663250 — 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: Law Courts Building, Sydney
Context triple: [Macquarie Street civic precinct, contains, Law Courts Building, Sydney]

A. Government House, Sydney
Government House, Sydney is a historic Gothic Revival mansion in the Royal Botanic Garden that serves as the official residence and ceremonial venue for the Governor of New South Wales.
B. Parliament House, Sydney
Parliament House, Sydney is the historic building complex on Macquarie Street that serves as the meeting place and administrative home of the Parliament of New South Wales.
C. Admiralty House, Sydney
Admiralty House, Sydney is a historic harbourside mansion in Kirribilli that serves as one of the official residences used for vice-regal and state functions in Australia.
D. Brisbane City Hall
Brisbane City Hall is a historic civic building and prominent clock-towered landmark located in the heart of Brisbane, Australia.
E. Australian Hall, Sydney
Australian Hall in Sydney is a historic building best known as the site of the 1938 Aboriginal Day of Mourning, a landmark event in the struggle for Indigenous rights in Australia.
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: Law Courts Building, Sydney
Target entity description: The Law Courts Building in Sydney is a major high-rise judicial complex that houses the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the Federal Court of Australia in the city’s central legal district.

A. Government House, Sydney
Government House, Sydney is a historic Gothic Revival mansion in the Royal Botanic Garden that serves as the official residence and ceremonial venue for the Governor of New South Wales.
B. Parliament House, Sydney
Parliament House, Sydney is the historic building complex on Macquarie Street that serves as the meeting place and administrative home of the Parliament of New South Wales.
C. Admiralty House, Sydney
Admiralty House, Sydney is a historic harbourside mansion in Kirribilli that serves as one of the official residences used for vice-regal and state functions in Australia.
D. Brisbane City Hall
Brisbane City Hall is a historic civic building and prominent clock-towered landmark located in the heart of Brisbane, Australia.
E. Australian Hall, Sydney
Australian Hall in Sydney is a historic building best known as the site of the 1938 Aboriginal Day of Mourning, a landmark event in the struggle for Indigenous rights in Australia.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	courthouse ⓘ high-rise building ⓘ judicial complex ⓘ office building ⓘ
access	publicly accessible subject to court security ⓘ
architecturalStyle	Modernist architecture ⓘ
coordinates	approx. -33.867° S, 151.213° E ⓘ
country	Australia ⓘ
hasPart	administrative offices ⓘ conference rooms ⓘ courtrooms ⓘ judges’ chambers ⓘ law libraries ⓘ public foyers ⓘ registry offices ⓘ security screening areas ⓘ
houses	Family Court of Australia (Sydney registry) ⓘ linked to: Family Court of Australia Federal Court of Australia ⓘ High Court of Australia registry (Sydney) ⓘ Supreme Court of New South Wales ⓘ
jurisdictionServed	Commonwealth of Australia ⓘ State of New South Wales ⓘ linked to: New South Wales
locatedIn	Macquarie Street, Sydney ⓘ New South Wales ⓘ Sydney ⓘ Sydney central business district ⓘ legal district of Sydney ⓘ
materialUsed	concrete ⓘ glass ⓘ steel ⓘ
nearby	Hyde Park, Sydney ⓘ Martin Place, Sydney ⓘ linked to: Martin Place State Library of New South Wales ⓘ Sydney Hospital ⓘ
operatedBy	New South Wales Department of Communities and Justice ⓘ
ownedBy	Government of New South Wales ⓘ
partOf	judicial precinct of Sydney ⓘ
primaryFunction	administration of justice ⓘ appellate hearings ⓘ hearing of civil cases ⓘ hearing of criminal cases ⓘ
significance	key element of Sydney’s legal infrastructure ⓘ major centre of superior courts in Australia ⓘ
usedBy	court staff ⓘ judges ⓘ lawyers ⓘ litigants ⓘ members of the public ⓘ

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

Macquarie Street civic precinct → contains → Law Courts Building, Sydney ⓘ

Supreme Court of New South Wales → building → Law Courts Building, Sydney ⓘ

Queen’s Square, Sydney → adjacentTo → Sydney Law Courts Building ⓘ