McKinley Monument
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The McKinley Monument is a memorial dedicated to U.S. President William McKinley, prominently located in downtown Buffalo, New York.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| McKinley Monument canonical | 1 |
| Monument to William McKinley in San Francisco | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12945371 — 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: McKinley Monument Context triple: [Niagara Square, hasMonument, McKinley Monument]
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A.
McKinley National Memorial
The McKinley National Memorial is the monumental tomb and memorial site in Canton, Ohio, honoring the 25th U.S. president, William McKinley.
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B.
Theodore Roosevelt obelisk
The Theodore Roosevelt obelisk is a commemorative stone monument in Montana honoring the 26th U.S. president, located at the summit of Marias Pass in the Rocky Mountains.
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C.
Ulysses S. Grant Memorial
The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial is a prominent Washington, D.C. monument honoring the Civil War general and 18th U.S. president, featuring a large equestrian statue and elaborate sculptural groups.
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D.
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial
The Theodore Roosevelt Memorial is a monument in New York City honoring the 26th U.S. president’s legacy as a statesman and conservationist.
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E.
James A. Garfield Memorial
The James A. Garfield Memorial is an ornate mausoleum and monument in Cleveland, Ohio, honoring the 20th U.S. president with elaborate architecture, sculptures, and a viewing area of his casket.
- 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: McKinley Monument Target entity description: The McKinley Monument is a memorial dedicated to U.S. President William McKinley, prominently located in downtown Buffalo, New York.
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A.
McKinley National Memorial
The McKinley National Memorial is the monumental tomb and memorial site in Canton, Ohio, honoring the 25th U.S. president, William McKinley.
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B.
Theodore Roosevelt obelisk
The Theodore Roosevelt obelisk is a commemorative stone monument in Montana honoring the 26th U.S. president, located at the summit of Marias Pass in the Rocky Mountains.
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C.
Ulysses S. Grant Memorial
The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial is a prominent Washington, D.C. monument honoring the Civil War general and 18th U.S. president, featuring a large equestrian statue and elaborate sculptural groups.
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D.
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial
The Theodore Roosevelt Memorial is a monument in New York City honoring the 26th U.S. president’s legacy as a statesman and conservationist.
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E.
James A. Garfield Memorial
The James A. Garfield Memorial is an ornate mausoleum and monument in Cleveland, Ohio, honoring the 20th U.S. president with elaborate architecture, sculptures, and a viewing area of his casket.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
memorial
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outdoor monument ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Beaux-Arts ⓘ |
| commemoratesEvent | assassination of William McKinley ⓘ |
| commemoratesPlace | Pan-American Exposition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | William McKinley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
central obelisk
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fountain ⓘ lions sculptures ⓘ seated female allegorical figures ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | contributing property to a historic district (downtown Buffalo) ⓘ |
| inception | early 20th century ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Buffalo
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surface form:
Buffalo, New York
Erie County, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Niagara Square NERFINISHED ⓘ downtown Buffalo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| materialUsed | marble ⓘ |
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: McKinley Monument Description of subject: The McKinley Monument is a memorial dedicated to U.S. President William McKinley, prominently located in downtown Buffalo, New York.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Monument to William McKinley in San Francisco