Silver Center
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Silver Center is a historic academic building at New York University that houses classrooms, offices, and arts and science departments on the university’s Washington Square campus.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Silver Center canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2540067 — 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: Silver Center Context triple: [New York University Main Building, hasCurrentName, Silver Center]
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A.
Silver
Silver is a lustrous, highly conductive precious metal widely used in jewelry, industry, and currency throughout history.
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B.
Gold Point
Gold Point is a historic Nevada mining ghost town known for its preserved old buildings and Wild West heritage.
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C.
Silver Medallion
Silver Medallion is Delta Air Lines’ entry-level elite status tier in the SkyMiles frequent flyer program, offering basic priority benefits and mileage bonuses to members.
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D.
Silver Medallion
Silver Medallion is a prestigious Telluride Film Festival honor recognizing significant contributions and achievements in world cinema.
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E.
Silver and Gold
"Silver and Gold" is a blues-rock song by U2, originally written in support of the anti-apartheid movement and later featured on their album and film project *Rattle and Hum*.
- 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: Silver Center Target entity description: Silver Center is a historic academic building at New York University that houses classrooms, offices, and arts and science departments on the university’s Washington Square campus.
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A.
Silver
Silver is a lustrous, highly conductive precious metal widely used in jewelry, industry, and currency throughout history.
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B.
Gold Point
Gold Point is a historic Nevada mining ghost town known for its preserved old buildings and Wild West heritage.
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C.
Silver Medallion
Silver Medallion is Delta Air Lines’ entry-level elite status tier in the SkyMiles frequent flyer program, offering basic priority benefits and mileage bonuses to members.
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D.
Silver Medallion
Silver Medallion is a prestigious Telluride Film Festival honor recognizing significant contributions and achievements in world cinema.
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E.
Silver and Gold
"Silver and Gold" is a blues-rock song by U2, originally written in support of the anti-apartheid movement and later featured on their album and film project *Rattle and Hum*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic building
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historic building ⓘ university building ⓘ |
| affiliation | New York University ⓘ |
| architecturalType | university academic building ⓘ |
| campus | Washington Square campus ⓘ |
| campusArea | Washington Square Park vicinity ⓘ |
| category |
New York University Main Building (now Silver Center)
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surface form:
New York University buildings
University and college buildings in Manhattan ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| hasFunction |
academic instruction
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departmental administration ⓘ faculty offices ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic campus building ⓘ |
| houses |
arts and science departments
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classrooms ⓘ offices ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Greenwich Village
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Manhattan ⓘ New York City ⓘ New York University ⓘ |
| ownedBy | New York University ⓘ |
| partOf |
New York University
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surface form:
Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University
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| usedFor |
administration
ⓘ
research ⓘ teaching ⓘ |
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: Silver Center Description of subject: Silver Center is a historic academic building at New York University that houses classrooms, offices, and arts and science departments on the university’s Washington Square campus.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
New York University Main Building