Adam Square, Edinburgh
E514903
Adam Square, Edinburgh was an 18th-century residential development in Edinburgh’s Old Town designed by architect John Adam, known for its Georgian architecture and later demolition during city redevelopment.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Adam Square, Edinburgh canonical | 1 |
| Castlehill, Edinburgh | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5361540 — 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: Adam Square, Edinburgh Context triple: [John Adam, notableWork, Adam Square, Edinburgh]
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A.
George Square, Edinburgh
George Square, Edinburgh is a central public square in Edinburgh known for its Georgian architecture and as a major hub of the University of Edinburgh’s campus.
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B.
Charlotte Square, Edinburgh
Charlotte Square, Edinburgh is a renowned Georgian garden square and architectural showpiece in Scotland’s capital, celebrated as one of the finest examples of Robert Adam’s neoclassical urban design.
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C.
Parliament Square, Edinburgh
Parliament Square in Edinburgh is a historic civic space in the Old Town, bordered by the High Court and St Giles’ Cathedral and long associated with Scotland’s legal and political life.
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D.
Royal Exchange, Edinburgh
The Royal Exchange in Edinburgh is an 18th-century neoclassical civic building on the Royal Mile, originally designed as a merchants’ exchange and now housing the City Chambers.
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E.
Inverleith, Edinburgh
Inverleith, Edinburgh is a leafy residential district north of the city centre, known for its spacious Victorian villas, open green spaces, and the presence of the Royal Botanic Garden.
- 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: Adam Square, Edinburgh Target entity description: Adam Square, Edinburgh was an 18th-century residential development in Edinburgh’s Old Town designed by architect John Adam, known for its Georgian architecture and later demolition during city redevelopment.
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A.
George Square, Edinburgh
George Square, Edinburgh is a central public square in Edinburgh known for its Georgian architecture and as a major hub of the University of Edinburgh’s campus.
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B.
Charlotte Square, Edinburgh
Charlotte Square, Edinburgh is a renowned Georgian garden square and architectural showpiece in Scotland’s capital, celebrated as one of the finest examples of Robert Adam’s neoclassical urban design.
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C.
Parliament Square, Edinburgh
Parliament Square in Edinburgh is a historic civic space in the Old Town, bordered by the High Court and St Giles’ Cathedral and long associated with Scotland’s legal and political life.
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D.
Royal Exchange, Edinburgh
The Royal Exchange in Edinburgh is an 18th-century neoclassical civic building on the Royal Mile, originally designed as a merchants’ exchange and now housing the City Chambers.
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E.
Inverleith, Edinburgh
Inverleith, Edinburgh is a leafy residential district north of the city centre, known for its spacious Victorian villas, open green spaces, and the presence of the Royal Botanic Garden.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former residential square
ⓘ
urban square ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Georgian architecture ⓘ |
| city |
City of Edinburgh
ⓘ
linked to:
Edinburgh
|
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country |
Scotland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| demolished | yes ⓘ |
| demolitionReason | city redevelopment ⓘ |
| designer | John Adam ⓘ |
| heritage | Georgian New Town-era planning influence on Old Town edge ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | example of 18th-century planned residential development in Edinburgh’s Old Town ⓘ |
| locatedInTimePeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| location |
Edinburgh
ⓘ
Old Town, Edinburgh ⓘ
linked to:
Old Town of Edinburgh
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| namedAfter | John Adam ⓘ |
| partOf | Old Town of Edinburgh ⓘ |
| region | Lothian ⓘ |
| urbanContext | close to the South Bridge area of Edinburgh ⓘ |
| use | residential ⓘ |
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: Adam Square, Edinburgh Description of subject: Adam Square, Edinburgh was an 18th-century residential development in Edinburgh’s Old Town designed by architect John Adam, known for its Georgian architecture and later demolition during city redevelopment.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Adam Square, Edinburgh