The Examination Schools
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The Examination Schools is a prominent University of Oxford building used primarily for hosting university examinations, lectures, and major academic events.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Examination Schools | 1 |
| The Examination Schools canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9514572 — 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: The Examination Schools Context triple: [Examination Schools, University of Oxford, hasAlternativeName, The Examination Schools]
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A.
The Schoolmaster
The Schoolmaster is a sketch or story within Washington Irving's collection "Bracebridge Hall," portraying a modest, dedicated village teacher with gentle humor and sentiment.
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B.
The Old Grammar School
The Old Grammar School is a historic former school building in Castletown on the Isle of Man, now preserved as a heritage site reflecting the town’s educational past.
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C.
The Place of Useful Learning
The Place of Useful Learning is the motto of the University of Strathclyde, reflecting its focus on practical, applied education and research that benefits society and industry.
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D.
Of Custom and Education
"Of Custom and Education" is a philosophical essay by David Hume that examines how habits and learned experience shape human beliefs and behavior.
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E.
Cinq mémoires sur l’instruction publique
Cinq mémoires sur l’instruction publique is a series of influential late-18th-century essays by Marquis de Condorcet outlining a rational, secular, and egalitarian system of public education.
- 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: The Examination Schools Target entity description: The Examination Schools is a prominent University of Oxford building used primarily for hosting university examinations, lectures, and major academic events.
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A.
The Schoolmaster
The Schoolmaster is a sketch or story within Washington Irving's collection "Bracebridge Hall," portraying a modest, dedicated village teacher with gentle humor and sentiment.
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B.
The Old Grammar School
The Old Grammar School is a historic former school building in Castletown on the Isle of Man, now preserved as a heritage site reflecting the town’s educational past.
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C.
The Place of Useful Learning
The Place of Useful Learning is the motto of the University of Strathclyde, reflecting its focus on practical, applied education and research that benefits society and industry.
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D.
Of Custom and Education
"Of Custom and Education" is a philosophical essay by David Hume that examines how habits and learned experience shape human beliefs and behavior.
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E.
Cinq mémoires sur l’instruction publique
Cinq mémoires sur l’instruction publique is a series of influential late-18th-century essays by Marquis de Condorcet outlining a rational, secular, and egalitarian system of public education.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
examination hall
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university building ⓘ |
| affiliation | University of Oxford ⓘ |
| architect | Thomas Graham Jackson ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Jacobean Revival ⓘ |
| canBeHiredFor |
banquets
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conferences ⓘ receptions ⓘ |
| city | Oxford ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1882 ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1876 ⓘ |
| coordinates | 51.7515°N 1.2520°W ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| floorCount | 3 ⓘ |
| hasPart |
East School
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North School ⓘ South School ⓘ West School ⓘ examination rooms ⓘ foyer ⓘ lecture rooms ⓘ main hall ⓘ staircases ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.venues.ox.ac.uk/venues/examination-schools ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Grade II listed ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationDate | 12 January 1954 ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | Grade II listed building ⓘ |
| inception | 1876 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
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Oxford ⓘ Oxfordshire ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedOn | High Street, Oxford ⓘ |
| material | Headington stone ⓘ |
| notableFor |
central role in Oxford academic life
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hosting University of Oxford examinations ⓘ large formal halls ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1882 ⓘ |
| ownedBy | University of Oxford ⓘ |
| region | South East England ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 75–81 High Street ⓘ |
| usedFor |
conferences
ⓘ
lectures ⓘ major academic events ⓘ public lectures ⓘ university examinations ⓘ |
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: The Examination Schools Description of subject: The Examination Schools is a prominent University of Oxford building used primarily for hosting university examinations, lectures, and major academic events.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Examination Schools