Tolbooth Steeple, Glasgow Cross
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Tolbooth Steeple, Glasgow Cross is a historic clock tower and one of Glasgow’s oldest surviving structures, marking the former site of the city’s medieval tolbooth at the historic crossroads.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tolbooth Steeple, Glasgow | 1 |
| Tolbooth Steeple, Glasgow Cross canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5676819 — 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: Tolbooth Steeple, Glasgow Cross Context triple: [Saltmarket, Glasgow, hasNearbyLandmark, Tolbooth Steeple, Glasgow Cross]
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A.
Govan Cross
Govan Cross is a historic public square and focal point in the Govan area of Glasgow, Scotland, known for its role as a local civic and commercial center.
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B.
Mercat Cross, Inverkeithing
Mercat Cross, Inverkeithing is a historic Scottish market cross and civic monument located in the town of Inverkeithing, Fife.
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C.
Falkirk Steeple
Falkirk Steeple is a historic clock tower and prominent landmark in the town centre of Falkirk, Scotland.
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D.
Queen’s Cross Church, Glasgow
Queen’s Cross Church in Glasgow is a distinctive early 20th-century ecclesiastical building designed in the Art Nouveau-influenced style of Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
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E.
Mercat Cross of Culross
The Mercat Cross of Culross is a historic market cross in the Fife village of Culross, Scotland, symbolizing its former status as a royal burgh and trading center.
- 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: Tolbooth Steeple, Glasgow Cross Target entity description: Tolbooth Steeple, Glasgow Cross is a historic clock tower and one of Glasgow’s oldest surviving structures, marking the former site of the city’s medieval tolbooth at the historic crossroads.
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A.
Govan Cross
Govan Cross is a historic public square and focal point in the Govan area of Glasgow, Scotland, known for its role as a local civic and commercial center.
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B.
Mercat Cross, Inverkeithing
Mercat Cross, Inverkeithing is a historic Scottish market cross and civic monument located in the town of Inverkeithing, Fife.
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C.
Falkirk Steeple
Falkirk Steeple is a historic clock tower and prominent landmark in the town centre of Falkirk, Scotland.
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D.
Queen’s Cross Church, Glasgow
Queen’s Cross Church in Glasgow is a distinctive early 20th-century ecclesiastical building designed in the Art Nouveau-influenced style of Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
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E.
Mercat Cross of Culross
The Mercat Cross of Culross is a historic market cross in the Fife village of Culross, Scotland, symbolizing its former status as a royal burgh and trading center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
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: Tolbooth Steeple, Glasgow Cross Description of subject: Tolbooth Steeple, Glasgow Cross is a historic clock tower and one of Glasgow’s oldest surviving structures, marking the former site of the city’s medieval tolbooth at the historic crossroads.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tolbooth Steeple, Glasgow Cross