St James’s House, Birmingham
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St James’s House in Birmingham is a modernist office building designed by renowned British architect Denys Lasdun.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St James’s House, Birmingham canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6214505 — 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: St James’s House, Birmingham Context triple: [Denys Lasdun, notableWork, St James’s House, Birmingham]
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A.
Central House, Birmingham
Central House in Birmingham is a former major television production facility that served as the primary studio complex for Central Independent Television, the ITV franchise for the Midlands.
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B.
Council House, Birmingham
Council House, Birmingham is a grand Victorian-era municipal building in Birmingham, England, serving as the seat and ceremonial headquarters of Birmingham City Council.
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C.
The Alexandra, Birmingham
The Alexandra, Birmingham is a historic theatre and live entertainment venue in Birmingham, England, known for hosting touring West End productions, musicals, and other major stage shows.
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D.
Birmingham City Hall
Birmingham City Hall is the main municipal building in Birmingham, England, serving as the central venue for the city’s governmental and civic functions.
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E.
Rotunda, Birmingham
Rotunda, Birmingham is a landmark cylindrical high-rise building in Birmingham, England, known for its distinctive modernist architecture and prominent position in the city centre skyline.
- 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: St James’s House, Birmingham Target entity description: St James’s House in Birmingham is a modernist office building designed by renowned British architect Denys Lasdun.
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A.
Central House, Birmingham
Central House in Birmingham is a former major television production facility that served as the primary studio complex for Central Independent Television, the ITV franchise for the Midlands.
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B.
Council House, Birmingham
Council House, Birmingham is a grand Victorian-era municipal building in Birmingham, England, serving as the seat and ceremonial headquarters of Birmingham City Council.
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C.
The Alexandra, Birmingham
The Alexandra, Birmingham is a historic theatre and live entertainment venue in Birmingham, England, known for hosting touring West End productions, musicals, and other major stage shows.
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D.
Birmingham City Hall
Birmingham City Hall is the main municipal building in Birmingham, England, serving as the central venue for the city’s governmental and civic functions.
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E.
Rotunda, Birmingham
Rotunda, Birmingham is a landmark cylindrical high-rise building in Birmingham, England, known for its distinctive modernist architecture and prominent position in the city centre skyline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | office building ⓘ |
| architect | Denys Lasdun ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Modernism ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Birmingham, West Midlands
ⓘ
Modernist architecture in England ⓘ Office buildings in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| designedBy | Denys Lasdun ⓘ |
| function | offices ⓘ |
| hasArchitect | Denys Lasdun ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalType | high-rise ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
curtain walling
ⓘ
pilotis ⓘ repetitive façade modules ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Birmingham
ⓘ
England ⓘ West Midlands ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Europe/London ⓘ |
| material |
concrete
ⓘ
glass ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Saint James ⓘ |
| partOf | Birmingham city centre ⓘ |
| usedFor | administrative purposes ⓘ |
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: St James’s House, Birmingham Description of subject: St James’s House in Birmingham is a modernist office building designed by renowned British architect Denys Lasdun.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.