Old Quad
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Old Quad is the historic main quadrangle of Brasenose College, Oxford, surrounded by some of the college’s oldest and most architecturally significant buildings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Old Quad canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5062782 — 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 Quad Context triple: [Brasenose College, Oxford, hasQuadrangle, Old Quad]
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A.
Castle Quarter
Castle Quarter is a major shopping and leisure centre located in the city centre of Norwich, England.
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B.
Old Bar
Old Bar is a small coastal town in New South Wales, Australia, known for its beaches, surfing, and relaxed holiday atmosphere.
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C.
North Building
North Building is one of the main commercial and office towers within the Grand Front Osaka complex, housing a mix of shops, restaurants, and business facilities.
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D.
North Building
North Building is one of the main exhibition and convention halls within Chicago’s McCormick Place complex, hosting large-scale trade shows and events.
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E.
North Building
North Building is a distinctive wing of the Denver Art Museum, known for its modernist architecture and role in housing part of the museum’s art collections.
- 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 Quad Target entity description: Old Quad is the historic main quadrangle of Brasenose College, Oxford, surrounded by some of the college’s oldest and most architecturally significant buildings.
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A.
Castle Quarter
Castle Quarter is a major shopping and leisure centre located in the city centre of Norwich, England.
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B.
Old Bar
Old Bar is a small coastal town in New South Wales, Australia, known for its beaches, surfing, and relaxed holiday atmosphere.
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C.
North Building
North Building is one of the main commercial and office towers within the Grand Front Osaka complex, housing a mix of shops, restaurants, and business facilities.
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D.
North Building
North Building is one of the main exhibition and convention halls within Chicago’s McCormick Place complex, hosting large-scale trade shows and events.
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E.
North Building
North Building is a distinctive wing of the Denver Art Museum, known for its modernist architecture and role in housing part of the museum’s art collections.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | quadrangle ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | traditional Oxford college quadrangle style ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Brasenose College community
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architectural heritage of the University of Oxford ⓘ history of Brasenose College ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
architecturally significant
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enclosed courtyard ⓘ historic ⓘ |
| hasFunction | main quadrangle of Brasenose College, Oxford ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
central open space
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historic architectural details ⓘ surrounding ranges of college buildings ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | part of the historic fabric of Brasenose College ⓘ |
| isMain | principal quadrangle of Brasenose College ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brasenose College, Oxford
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England ⓘ Oxford ⓘ Oxfordshire ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| partOf | University of Oxford ⓘ |
| surroundedBy |
architecturally significant buildings of Brasenose College
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college buildings ⓘ some of the oldest buildings of Brasenose College ⓘ |
| usedBy |
fellows of Brasenose College
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staff of Brasenose College ⓘ students of Brasenose College ⓘ visitors to Brasenose College ⓘ |
| usedFor |
access to college facilities
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access to college rooms ⓘ college circulation ⓘ |
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 Quad Description of subject: Old Quad is the historic main quadrangle of Brasenose College, Oxford, surrounded by some of the college’s oldest and most architecturally significant buildings.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.