Dennis Sciama Building
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The Dennis Sciama Building is a major University of Portsmouth facility that houses its Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation and related physics research activities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dennis Sciama Building canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3554601 — 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: Dennis Sciama Building Context triple: [University of Portsmouth, hasNotableBuilding, Dennis Sciama Building]
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A.
Peter Jay Sharp Building
The Peter Jay Sharp Building is the historic flagship venue of the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, New York, housing its primary performance spaces and cultural facilities.
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B.
Louise Weiss building
The Louise Weiss building is the main seat of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, known for its distinctive modern architecture and symbolic role in the European Union’s legislative process.
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C.
Bloch Building
The Bloch Building is a striking contemporary glass-and-concrete expansion of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, renowned for its luminous “lenses” emerging from the landscape.
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D.
The David Williams Building
The David Williams Building is a modern facility that houses the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Law, providing teaching spaces, offices, and resources for legal education and research.
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E.
John A. Wilson Building
The John A. Wilson Building is a historic government office building in Washington, D.C., that houses the city’s primary municipal and legislative offices.
- 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: Dennis Sciama Building Target entity description: The Dennis Sciama Building is a major University of Portsmouth facility that houses its Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation and related physics research activities.
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A.
Peter Jay Sharp Building
The Peter Jay Sharp Building is the historic flagship venue of the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, New York, housing its primary performance spaces and cultural facilities.
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B.
Louise Weiss building
The Louise Weiss building is the main seat of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, known for its distinctive modern architecture and symbolic role in the European Union’s legislative process.
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C.
Bloch Building
The Bloch Building is a striking contemporary glass-and-concrete expansion of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, renowned for its luminous “lenses” emerging from the landscape.
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D.
The David Williams Building
The David Williams Building is a modern facility that houses the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Law, providing teaching spaces, offices, and resources for legal education and research.
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E.
John A. Wilson Building
The John A. Wilson Building is a historic government office building in Washington, D.C., that houses the city’s primary municipal and legislative offices.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
research facility
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university building ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Department of Physics, University of Portsmouth
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University of Portsmouth ⓘ
surface form:
Faculty of Technology, University of Portsmouth
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| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dedicatedToField |
astrophysics
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cosmology ⓘ gravity research ⓘ |
| eponymFieldOfWork | cosmology ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
academic offices
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computing facilities ⓘ meeting rooms ⓘ research laboratories ⓘ seminar rooms ⓘ |
| houses | Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation ⓘ |
| locatedIn | University of Portsmouth ⓘ |
| locatedInCity | Portsmouth ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Hampshire ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Dennis Sciama ⓘ |
| namedForOccupationOfEponym | physicist ⓘ |
| partOf |
University of Portsmouth
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surface form:
University of Portsmouth campus
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| usedFor |
astrophysics research
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cosmology research ⓘ theoretical physics research ⓘ university teaching ⓘ |
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: Dennis Sciama Building Description of subject: The Dennis Sciama Building is a major University of Portsmouth facility that houses its Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation and related physics research activities.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.