Bank of Toronto Building, 205 Yonge Street
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The Bank of Toronto Building at 205 Yonge Street is a historic Beaux-Arts former bank headquarters in downtown Toronto, designed by prominent architect Edward James Lennox in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bank of Toronto Building, 205 Yonge Street canonical | 2 |
| Bank of Toronto headquarters | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11488590 — 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: Bank of Toronto Building, 205 Yonge Street Context triple: [Edward James Lennox, notableWork, Bank of Toronto Building, 205 Yonge Street]
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A.
Bank of Nova Scotia Building, Toronto
The Bank of Nova Scotia Building in Toronto is a historic early-20th-century office and banking tower known for its Beaux-Arts/Art Deco-influenced architecture and prominent presence in the city’s financial district.
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B.
Canadian Bank of Commerce building, Toronto
The Canadian Bank of Commerce building in Toronto is a historic early 20th-century skyscraper and former bank headquarters, recognized as a landmark of Canadian Beaux-Arts and early high-rise architecture.
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C.
Toronto-Dominion Centre
The Toronto-Dominion Centre is a landmark modernist office complex in downtown Toronto, known for its black steel-and-glass towers designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
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D.
First Canadian Place
First Canadian Place is a prominent office and retail skyscraper in Toronto’s financial district and one of the tallest buildings in Canada.
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E.
Toronto Stock Exchange building
The Toronto Stock Exchange building is a historic Art Deco landmark in downtown Toronto that once housed Canada's principal stock exchange and now serves as an office and commercial complex.
- 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: Bank of Toronto Building, 205 Yonge Street Target entity description: The Bank of Toronto Building at 205 Yonge Street is a historic Beaux-Arts former bank headquarters in downtown Toronto, designed by prominent architect Edward James Lennox in the early 20th century.
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A.
Bank of Nova Scotia Building, Toronto
The Bank of Nova Scotia Building in Toronto is a historic early-20th-century office and banking tower known for its Beaux-Arts/Art Deco-influenced architecture and prominent presence in the city’s financial district.
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B.
Canadian Bank of Commerce building, Toronto
The Canadian Bank of Commerce building in Toronto is a historic early 20th-century skyscraper and former bank headquarters, recognized as a landmark of Canadian Beaux-Arts and early high-rise architecture.
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C.
Toronto-Dominion Centre
The Toronto-Dominion Centre is a landmark modernist office complex in downtown Toronto, known for its black steel-and-glass towers designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
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D.
First Canadian Place
First Canadian Place is a prominent office and retail skyscraper in Toronto’s financial district and one of the tallest buildings in Canada.
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E.
Toronto Stock Exchange building
The Toronto Stock Exchange building is a historic Art Deco landmark in downtown Toronto that once housed Canada's principal stock exchange and now serves as an office and commercial complex.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Beaux-Arts building
ⓘ
former bank building ⓘ heritage building ⓘ office building ⓘ |
| architect | Edward James Lennox ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Beaux-Arts ⓘ |
| city | Toronto ⓘ |
| constructionPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| designedBy | Edward James Lennox ⓘ |
| formerUse |
Bank of Toronto headquarters
ⓘ
linked to:
Bank of Toronto Building, 205 Yonge Street
bank headquarters ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
classical columns
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grand banking hall interior ⓘ ornamental façade detailing ⓘ |
| hasFunction | commercial building ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | listed heritage property in Toronto ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic building ⓘ |
| heritageValue |
architectural significance as a Beaux-Arts bank building
ⓘ
historical significance as former Bank of Toronto headquarters ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Canada
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Ontario ⓘ Toronto ⓘ downtown Toronto ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Yonge Street ⓘ |
| material | stone façade ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Bank of Toronto
ⓘ
linked to:
Toronto-Dominion Bank
|
| near |
Toronto Eaton Centre
ⓘ
Yonge-Dundas area ⓘ
linked to:
Downtown Yonge area
|
| partOf |
Toronto Financial District
ⓘ
linked to:
Financial District, Toronto
|
| provinceOrState | Ontario ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 205 Yonge Street ⓘ |
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: Bank of Toronto Building, 205 Yonge Street Description of subject: The Bank of Toronto Building at 205 Yonge Street is a historic Beaux-Arts former bank headquarters in downtown Toronto, designed by prominent architect Edward James Lennox in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bank of Toronto Building, 205 Yonge Street