New College Library
E420144
New College Library is the main academic library of New College, Oxford, providing students and scholars with extensive collections and study facilities within the University of Oxford.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New College Library canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4194573 — 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: New College Library Context triple: [New College, Oxford, hasLibrary, New College Library]
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A.
St John’s College Library
St John’s College Library is the main academic and historic library of St John’s College, Cambridge, housing extensive scholarly collections and rare manuscripts for students and researchers.
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B.
St John’s College Library
St John’s College Library is the main academic library of St John’s College, Oxford, housing its collections of books, manuscripts, and study spaces for students and researchers.
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C.
Christ's College Library
Christ's College Library is the academic library of Christ's College, Cambridge, providing study spaces and collections to support the college's students and scholars.
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D.
St Anne's College Library
St Anne's College Library is the main academic library of St Anne's College, Oxford, providing study spaces and collections to support the college's students and researchers.
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E.
Merton College Library
Merton College Library is the historic academic library of Merton College, Oxford, renowned as one of the oldest continuously functioning libraries in Europe.
- 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: New College Library Target entity description: New College Library is the main academic library of New College, Oxford, providing students and scholars with extensive collections and study facilities within the University of Oxford.
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A.
St John’s College Library
St John’s College Library is the main academic and historic library of St John’s College, Cambridge, housing extensive scholarly collections and rare manuscripts for students and researchers.
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B.
St John’s College Library
St John’s College Library is the main academic library of St John’s College, Oxford, housing its collections of books, manuscripts, and study spaces for students and researchers.
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C.
Christ's College Library
Christ's College Library is the academic library of Christ's College, Cambridge, providing study spaces and collections to support the college's students and scholars.
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D.
St Anne's College Library
St Anne's College Library is the main academic library of St Anne's College, Oxford, providing study spaces and collections to support the college's students and researchers.
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E.
Merton College Library
Merton College Library is the historic academic library of Merton College, Oxford, renowned as one of the oldest continuously functioning libraries in Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic building
ⓘ
academic library ⓘ |
| accessibleTo | members of New College, Oxford ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith |
New College, Oxford
ⓘ
University of Oxford ⓘ |
| collectionType |
academic collections
ⓘ
journals ⓘ print books ⓘ reference works ⓘ |
| country |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ⓘ
linked to:
United Kingdom
|
| hasFacility |
individual study desks
ⓘ
quiet study areas ⓘ reading rooms ⓘ study spaces ⓘ |
| hasService |
access to electronic resources
ⓘ
borrowing services ⓘ inter-library access via University of Oxford systems ⓘ reference services ⓘ study support ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.new.ox.ac.uk/library ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
New College, Oxford ⓘ Oxford ⓘ University of Oxford ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Europe/London ⓘ |
| name | New College Library ⓘ |
| operatedBy | New College, Oxford ⓘ |
| partOf | college libraries of the University of Oxford ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
provide academic library services
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support research at New College, Oxford ⓘ support teaching and learning at New College, Oxford ⓘ |
| sector | higher education ⓘ |
| serves |
academic staff of New College, Oxford
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fellows of New College, Oxford ⓘ students of New College, Oxford ⓘ |
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: New College Library Description of subject: New College Library is the main academic library of New College, Oxford, providing students and scholars with extensive collections and study facilities within the University of Oxford.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.