St William's College
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St William's College is a historic medieval building in York, England, originally built in the 15th century to house priests serving York Minster and now used for events and functions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St William's College canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10273449 — 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: St William's College Context triple: [York city centre, hasLandmark, St William's College]
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A.
James College
James College is one of the constituent residential colleges of the University of York, providing accommodation, social spaces, and community activities for its students.
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B.
King William's College
King William's College is a historic independent boarding school on the Isle of Man, known for its rigorous academics and long-standing traditions.
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C.
Marshall College
Marshall College is the fictional academic institution where archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones works as a professor in the Indiana Jones film series.
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D.
Van Mildert College
Van Mildert College is one of the constituent colleges of Durham University, known for its strong sense of community and active student life.
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E.
Stephenson College
Stephenson College is a constituent college of Durham University, providing accommodation, academic support, and a social community for its students.
- 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: St William's College Target entity description: St William's College is a historic medieval building in York, England, originally built in the 15th century to house priests serving York Minster and now used for events and functions.
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A.
James College
James College is one of the constituent residential colleges of the University of York, providing accommodation, social spaces, and community activities for its students.
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B.
King William's College
King William's College is a historic independent boarding school on the Isle of Man, known for its rigorous academics and long-standing traditions.
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C.
Marshall College
Marshall College is the fictional academic institution where archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones works as a professor in the Indiana Jones film series.
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D.
Van Mildert College
Van Mildert College is one of the constituent colleges of Durham University, known for its strong sense of community and active student life.
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E.
Stephenson College
Stephenson College is a constituent college of Durham University, providing accommodation, academic support, and a social community for its students.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
college building
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historic building ⓘ medieval building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | medieval ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 15th century ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| currentUse |
events venue
ⓘ
functions venue ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Saint William of York ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
courtyard
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jettied upper storey ⓘ timber framing ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | protected building ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Grade I listed building ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Minster Yard, York
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North Yorkshire ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ York ⓘ |
| locatedNear | York Minster ⓘ |
| material | timber-framed ⓘ |
| near |
Treasurer's House, York
ⓘ
York city walls ⓘ
linked to:
City walls of York
|
| openToPublic | true ⓘ |
| originalFunction |
housing priests serving York Minster
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residence for priests ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Dean and Chapter of York ⓘ |
| partOf | historic centre of York ⓘ |
| significance | example of late medieval clergy housing ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | true ⓘ |
| usedFor |
conferences
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meetings ⓘ receptions ⓘ weddings ⓘ |
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: St William's College Description of subject: St William's College is a historic medieval building in York, England, originally built in the 15th century to house priests serving York Minster and now used for events and functions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.