Old Court
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Old Court is a historic quadrangle at Selwyn College, Cambridge, known for its traditional collegiate architecture and central role in college life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Old Court canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1377704 — 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: Old Court Context triple: [Selwyn College, Cambridge, hasBuilding, Old Court]
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A.
Old Court
Old Court is the historic main courtyard of Peterhouse, Cambridge, known for its early collegiate architecture and central role in the college’s life.
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B.
Old Court
Old Court is one of the historic quadrangles of Christ's College, Cambridge, known for its traditional collegiate architecture and central role in college life.
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C.
Old Court
Old Court is the historic central courtyard of Queens’ College, Cambridge, known for its traditional collegiate architecture and riverside setting.
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D.
Old Court
Old Court is a historic quadrangle at Pembroke College, Cambridge, known for its traditional collegiate architecture and central role in college life.
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E.
Old Court
Old Court is a historic quadrangle within Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, known for its medieval architecture and central role in the college’s academic and social life.
- 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: Old Court Target entity description: Old Court is a historic quadrangle at Selwyn College, Cambridge, known for its traditional collegiate architecture and central role in college life.
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A.
Old Court
Old Court is the historic main courtyard of Peterhouse, Cambridge, known for its early collegiate architecture and central role in the college’s life.
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B.
Old Court
Old Court is one of the historic quadrangles of Christ's College, Cambridge, known for its traditional collegiate architecture and central role in college life.
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C.
Old Court
Old Court is the historic central courtyard of Queens’ College, Cambridge, known for its traditional collegiate architecture and riverside setting.
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D.
Old Court
Old Court is a historic quadrangle at Pembroke College, Cambridge, known for its traditional collegiate architecture and central role in college life.
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E.
Old Court
Old Court is a historic quadrangle within Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, known for its medieval architecture and central role in the college’s academic and social life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
college quadrangle
ⓘ
historic building complex ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | traditional collegiate architecture ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Selwyn College fellows
ⓘ
Selwyn College students ⓘ Cambridge University colleges ⓘ
surface form:
University of Cambridge collegiate system
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| hasFunction |
accommodation for students
ⓘ
social and communal space ⓘ teaching and study spaces ⓘ |
| hasLayout | enclosed quadrangle around a central court ⓘ |
| hasPart |
central lawn
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perimeter ranges of buildings ⓘ staircases leading to student rooms ⓘ |
| hasSignificance | central role in Selwyn College life ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic quadrangle ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cambridge, England
ⓘ
surface form:
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire, England ⓘ
surface form:
Cambridgeshire
England ⓘ Selwyn College, Cambridge ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| partOf |
Selwyn College, Cambridge
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surface form:
Selwyn College, University of Cambridge
|
| typicalFeatureOf | Cambridge college architecture ⓘ |
| usedFor |
academic term-time activities
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formal and informal gatherings ⓘ residential life of the college ⓘ |
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: Old Court Description of subject: Old Court is a historic quadrangle at Selwyn College, Cambridge, known for its traditional collegiate architecture and central role in college life.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.