Bank of Toronto building at Yonge and King (demolished)
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The Bank of Toronto building at Yonge and King was a prominent historic Toronto bank structure designed by architect E. J. Lennox, later demolished.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bank of Toronto building at Yonge and King (demolished) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6709525 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bank of Toronto building at Yonge and King (demolished) Context triple: [E. J. Lennox, notableWork, Bank of Toronto building at Yonge and King (demolished)]
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A.
Canadian Bank of Commerce building, Toronto
The Canadian Bank of Commerce building in Toronto is a historic early 20th-century skyscraper and former bank headquarters, recognized as a landmark of Canadian Beaux-Arts and early high-rise architecture.
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B.
Toronto General Post Office (1886–1889)
The Toronto General Post Office (1886–1889) was a late-19th-century landmark postal building in downtown Toronto, designed in a grand architectural style characteristic of the era.
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C.
Old City Hall (Toronto)
Old City Hall (Toronto) is a historic Romanesque Revival former municipal building and courthouse in downtown Toronto, renowned for its iconic clock tower and status as one of the city’s most prominent heritage landmarks.
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D.
Toronto Stock Exchange building
The Toronto Stock Exchange building is a historic Art Deco landmark in downtown Toronto that once housed Canada's principal stock exchange and now serves as an office and commercial complex.
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E.
Toronto General Hospital (early 20th-century complex)
Toronto General Hospital (early 20th-century complex) is a historically significant Toronto medical facility known for its early-20th-century expansion featuring landmark institutional architecture by the firm Darling and Pearson.
- 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: Bank of Toronto building at Yonge and King (demolished) Target entity description: The Bank of Toronto building at Yonge and King was a prominent historic Toronto bank structure designed by architect E. J. Lennox, later demolished.
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A.
Canadian Bank of Commerce building, Toronto
The Canadian Bank of Commerce building in Toronto is a historic early 20th-century skyscraper and former bank headquarters, recognized as a landmark of Canadian Beaux-Arts and early high-rise architecture.
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B.
Toronto General Post Office (1886–1889)
The Toronto General Post Office (1886–1889) was a late-19th-century landmark postal building in downtown Toronto, designed in a grand architectural style characteristic of the era.
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C.
Old City Hall (Toronto)
Old City Hall (Toronto) is a historic Romanesque Revival former municipal building and courthouse in downtown Toronto, renowned for its iconic clock tower and status as one of the city’s most prominent heritage landmarks.
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D.
Toronto Stock Exchange building
The Toronto Stock Exchange building is a historic Art Deco landmark in downtown Toronto that once housed Canada's principal stock exchange and now serves as an office and commercial complex.
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E.
Toronto General Hospital (early 20th-century complex)
Toronto General Hospital (early 20th-century complex) is a historically significant Toronto medical facility known for its early-20th-century expansion featuring landmark institutional architecture by the firm Darling and Pearson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | bank building ⓘ |
| architect |
E. J. Lennox
ⓘ
Edward James Lennox ⓘ |
| city | Toronto ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| countryCode | CA ⓘ |
| demolished | true ⓘ |
| designedBy | E. J. Lennox ⓘ |
| function | financial services ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic structure ⓘ |
| locatedAtIntersection | Yonge Street and King Street ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Canada
ⓘ
Ontario ⓘ Toronto ⓘ |
| locatedInDowntown | Toronto ⓘ |
| locatedInHistoricCore | Toronto ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Bank of Toronto
ⓘ
linked to:
Toronto-Dominion Bank
|
| originalOccupant |
Bank of Toronto
ⓘ
linked to:
Toronto-Dominion Bank
|
| partOf |
Toronto financial district
ⓘ
linked to:
Financial District, Toronto
|
| significance | prominent historic Toronto bank structure ⓘ |
| status | demolished ⓘ |
| streetCorner |
King Street
ⓘ
Yonge Street ⓘ |
| use | bank ⓘ |
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: Bank of Toronto building at Yonge and King (demolished) Description of subject: The Bank of Toronto building at Yonge and King was a prominent historic Toronto bank structure designed by architect E. J. Lennox, later demolished.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.