Durham County Courthouse
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Durham County Courthouse is the primary judicial building serving Durham County, North Carolina, housing its main courts and related legal offices.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Durham County Courthouse canonical | 2 |
| Durham County Superior Court | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T102976 — 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: Durham County Courthouse Context triple: [Durham County, North Carolina, hasCourthouse, Durham County Courthouse]
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A.
Courthouse, Arlington
Courthouse, Arlington is a vibrant urban neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia, known for its county government center, high-density mixed-use development, and access to the Washington Metro.
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B.
Newton City Hall
Newton City Hall is the main municipal government building and administrative center for the city of Newton, Massachusetts.
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C.
John Adams Courthouse
The John Adams Courthouse is a historic judicial building in Boston that houses Massachusetts’ highest court and other key legal institutions.
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D.
Florida State Capitol
The Florida State Capitol is the government complex in Tallahassee that houses the executive and legislative branches of Florida's state government.
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E.
Durham Performing Arts Center
Durham Performing Arts Center is a major contemporary theater and concert venue in downtown Durham, North Carolina, known for hosting Broadway tours, concerts, and other large-scale live performances.
- 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: Durham County Courthouse Target entity description: Durham County Courthouse is the primary judicial building serving Durham County, North Carolina, housing its main courts and related legal offices.
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A.
Courthouse, Arlington
Courthouse, Arlington is a vibrant urban neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia, known for its county government center, high-density mixed-use development, and access to the Washington Metro.
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B.
Newton City Hall
Newton City Hall is the main municipal government building and administrative center for the city of Newton, Massachusetts.
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C.
John Adams Courthouse
The John Adams Courthouse is a historic judicial building in Boston that houses Massachusetts’ highest court and other key legal institutions.
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D.
Florida State Capitol
The Florida State Capitol is the government complex in Tallahassee that houses the executive and legislative branches of Florida's state government.
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E.
Durham Performing Arts Center
Durham Performing Arts Center is a major contemporary theater and concert venue in downtown Durham, North Carolina, known for hosting Broadway tours, concerts, and other large-scale live performances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
courthouse
ⓘ
government building ⓘ |
| accessibleTo | general public ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| governedBy | laws of North Carolina ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
administration of justice
ⓘ
judicial center ⓘ seat of county courts ⓘ |
| houses |
Durham County District Court
ⓘ
Durham County Courthouse self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Durham County Superior Court
Durham County, North Carolina ⓘ
surface form:
Durham County courts
clerks’ offices ⓘ courtrooms ⓘ judges’ chambers ⓘ legal offices ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Durham County, North Carolina ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Durham County, North Carolina
ⓘ
Durham, North Carolina ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | North Carolina ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Durham County Board of Commissioners
ⓘ
surface form:
Durham County government
|
| ownedBy |
Durham County, North Carolina
ⓘ
surface form:
Durham County government
|
| publicBuilding | true ⓘ |
| serves | Durham County, North Carolina ⓘ |
| usedFor |
civil court proceedings
ⓘ
criminal court proceedings ⓘ family court proceedings ⓘ public legal services ⓘ traffic court proceedings ⓘ |
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: Durham County Courthouse Description of subject: Durham County Courthouse is the primary judicial building serving Durham County, North Carolina, housing its main courts and related legal offices.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Durham County Superior Court
subject surface form:
Downtown Durham Historic District