Old War Office building
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The Old War Office building is a grand Edwardian Baroque former British government headquarters in London, historically used by the War Office and closely associated with the administration of the British Army.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old War Office | 1 |
| Old War Office building canonical | 1 |
| War Office building, Whitehall | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3679902 — 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 War Office building Context triple: [Whitehall, hasLandmark, Old War Office building]
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A.
United States War Department building
The United States War Department building was a key federal military administration headquarters in Washington, D.C., that became historically notable as one of the government structures targeted during the Burning of Washington in the War of 1812.
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B.
General Services Building
The General Services Building is a support and operations facility located within Toronto’s Exhibition Place complex.
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C.
Memorial Building
Memorial Building is a neoclassical structure at Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park that enshrines a symbolic log cabin representing the 16th U.S. president’s early home.
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Old State, War, and Navy Building
The Old State, War, and Navy Building is a historic 19th-century government office building in Washington, D.C., known for its elaborate Second Empire architecture and its role in housing key U.S. executive branch departments.
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E.
Lavarack Barracks
Lavarack Barracks is a major Australian Army base located in Townsville, Queensland, and one of the country's largest military installations.
- 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 War Office building Target entity description: The Old War Office building is a grand Edwardian Baroque former British government headquarters in London, historically used by the War Office and closely associated with the administration of the British Army.
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A.
United States War Department building
The United States War Department building was a key federal military administration headquarters in Washington, D.C., that became historically notable as one of the government structures targeted during the Burning of Washington in the War of 1812.
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B.
General Services Building
The General Services Building is a support and operations facility located within Toronto’s Exhibition Place complex.
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C.
Memorial Building
Memorial Building is a neoclassical structure at Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park that enshrines a symbolic log cabin representing the 16th U.S. president’s early home.
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D.
Old State, War, and Navy Building
The Old State, War, and Navy Building is a historic 19th-century government office building in Washington, D.C., known for its elaborate Second Empire architecture and its role in housing key U.S. executive branch departments.
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E.
Lavarack Barracks
Lavarack Barracks is a major Australian Army base located in Townsville, Queensland, and one of the country's largest military installations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 War Office building Description of subject: The Old War Office building is a grand Edwardian Baroque former British government headquarters in London, historically used by the War Office and closely associated with the administration of the British Army.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Whitehall
this entity surface form:
War Office building, Whitehall
this entity surface form:
Old War Office