Court of Session building
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The Court of Session building is the principal civil court complex of Scotland, located in Edinburgh’s historic Old Town.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Court of Session building canonical | 1 |
| Court of Session complex | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7277923 — 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: Court of Session building Context triple: [Parliament Square, Edinburgh, hasLandmark, Court of Session building]
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A.
Courthouse
Courthouse is an underground bus rapid transit station on Boston’s MBTA Silver Line serving the Seaport District.
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B.
Courthouse
Courthouse is a vibrant urban neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia, known for its county government complex, high-density development, and Metro-accessible commercial and residential areas.
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C.
Justiciary Buildings, Glasgow
Justiciary Buildings, Glasgow is a prominent courthouse complex in the Saltmarket area that serves as one of Scotland’s main criminal justice centres.
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D.
Crown Tribunal building
The Crown Tribunal building is a historic Renaissance-style edifice in Lublin, Poland, that once housed the highest appeal court for the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth’s nobility.
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E.
East Court Building
The East Court Building is a courthouse facility in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, that houses divisions and courtrooms of the Maricopa County Superior Court.
- 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: Court of Session building Target entity description: The Court of Session building is the principal civil court complex of Scotland, located in Edinburgh’s historic Old Town.
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A.
Courthouse
Courthouse is an underground bus rapid transit station on Boston’s MBTA Silver Line serving the Seaport District.
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B.
Courthouse
Courthouse is a vibrant urban neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia, known for its county government complex, high-density development, and Metro-accessible commercial and residential areas.
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C.
Justiciary Buildings, Glasgow
Justiciary Buildings, Glasgow is a prominent courthouse complex in the Saltmarket area that serves as one of Scotland’s main criminal justice centres.
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D.
Crown Tribunal building
The Crown Tribunal building is a historic Renaissance-style edifice in Lublin, Poland, that once housed the highest appeal court for the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth’s nobility.
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E.
East Court Building
The East Court Building is a courthouse facility in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, that houses divisions and courtrooms of the Maricopa County Superior Court.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
courthouse
ⓘ
judicial building ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Royal Mile
ⓘ
St Giles’ Cathedral ⓘ
linked to:
St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh
|
| architecturalStyle | neoclassical architecture ⓘ |
| city | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| contains |
Inner House courtrooms
ⓘ
Law Library ⓘ Outer House courtrooms ⓘ clerks’ offices ⓘ judges’ chambers ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 55.949°N 3.190°W ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| function | seat of Scotland’s supreme civil court ⓘ |
| hasPart | Parliament House, Edinburgh ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Category A listed building ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | part of Edinburgh Old Town UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ |
| inception | 17th century ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | civil law of Scotland ⓘ |
| locatedInJurisdiction | Scotland ⓘ |
| location |
Edinburgh
ⓘ
Old Town, Edinburgh ⓘ
linked to:
Old Town of Edinburgh
|
| material | sandstone ⓘ |
| occupant | Court of Session ⓘ |
| operator | Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service ⓘ |
| partOf |
Edinburgh Old Town
ⓘ
linked to:
Old Town of Edinburgh
|
| significantEvent |
venue for judicial reviews in Scotland
ⓘ
venue for major Scottish civil appeals ⓘ |
| streetAddress | Parliament Square ⓘ |
| use | principal civil court of Scotland ⓘ |
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: Court of Session building Description of subject: The Court of Session building is the principal civil court complex of Scotland, located in Edinburgh’s historic Old Town.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Court of Session building