Historic American Engineering Record
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The Historic American Engineering Record is a U.S. program that documents historically significant engineering and industrial sites through detailed drawings, photographs, and written histories for preservation and research.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Historic American Engineering Record canonical | 6 |
| HAER | 2 |
| Historic American Engineering Record photographs | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T136908 — 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: Historic American Engineering Record Context triple: [National Park Service, hasProgram, Historic American Engineering Record]
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A.
Historic American Buildings Survey
The Historic American Buildings Survey is a long-running federal program that documents the United States’ historic architecture through measured drawings, photographs, and written histories for preservation and research.
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B.
National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark
The National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark designation is an honor awarded by the American Society of Civil Engineers to recognize historically significant and innovative civil engineering works.
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C.
National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark
A National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark is a designation by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers recognizing historically significant mechanical engineering achievements, sites, or artifacts.
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D.
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States' official federal list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical, architectural, or cultural significance.
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E.
Local Historic Civil Engineering Landmark
A Local Historic Civil Engineering Landmark is a site, structure, or project recognized by civil engineering organizations for its significant historical and engineering importance within a specific locality or region.
- 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: Historic American Engineering Record Target entity description: The Historic American Engineering Record is a U.S. program that documents historically significant engineering and industrial sites through detailed drawings, photographs, and written histories for preservation and research.
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A.
Historic American Buildings Survey
The Historic American Buildings Survey is a long-running federal program that documents the United States’ historic architecture through measured drawings, photographs, and written histories for preservation and research.
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B.
National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark
The National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark designation is an honor awarded by the American Society of Civil Engineers to recognize historically significant and innovative civil engineering works.
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C.
National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark
A National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark is a designation by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers recognizing historically significant mechanical engineering achievements, sites, or artifacts.
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D.
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States' official federal list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical, architectural, or cultural significance.
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E.
Local Historic Civil Engineering Landmark
A Local Historic Civil Engineering Landmark is a site, structure, or project recognized by civil engineering organizations for its significant historical and engineering importance within a specific locality or region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States federal program
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heritage documentation program ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Historic American Engineering Record
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
HAER
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| accessPolicy | publicly accessible documentation ⓘ |
| collectionRepository |
Library of Congress
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surface form:
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
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| coSponsor |
American Society of Civil Engineers
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Library of Congress ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| documentationType | primary source material ⓘ |
| documentFormat |
drawings
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historical narratives ⓘ photographs ⓘ |
| field |
civil engineering history
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historic preservation ⓘ industrial archaeology ⓘ |
| focus |
industrial heritage
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infrastructure heritage ⓘ technological heritage ⓘ |
| hasOutput |
engineering drawings
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historical reports ⓘ photo documentation ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| method |
large-format photography
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measured drawings ⓘ written historical reports ⓘ |
| operator | National Park Service ⓘ |
| partOf |
Heritage Documentation Programs
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surface form:
U.S. National Park Service Heritage Documentation Programs
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| purpose |
documentation of historically significant engineering sites
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documentation of historically significant industrial sites ⓘ preservation of engineering heritage through documentation ⓘ support of research on engineering and industrial history ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Historic American Buildings Survey
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Historic American Landscapes Survey ⓘ |
| scope |
bridges
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canals ⓘ dams ⓘ industrial plants ⓘ mechanical systems ⓘ transportation infrastructure ⓘ |
| sponsorType | government agency ⓘ |
| use |
education
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preservation planning ⓘ scholarly research ⓘ |
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: Historic American Engineering Record Description of subject: The Historic American Engineering Record is a U.S. program that documents historically significant engineering and industrial sites through detailed drawings, photographs, and written histories for preservation and research.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Historic American Engineering Record
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abbreviation
→
Historic American Engineering Record
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
HAER
this entity surface form:
Historic American Engineering Record photographs
subject surface form:
Heritage Documentation Programs
subject surface form:
Historic American Engineering Record
this entity surface form:
HAER