Harold D. Uris
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Harold D. Uris was an American real estate developer and philanthropist, best known for co-founding Uris Buildings Corporation and for his major donations to educational institutions such as Cornell University.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Harold D. Uris canonical | 3 |
| Harold Uris | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1923212 — 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: Harold D. Uris Context triple: [Uris Library, namedAfter, Harold D. Uris]
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A.
Harold T. Shapiro
Harold T. Shapiro is an economist and academic leader best known for serving as president of both Princeton University and the University of Michigan and for his influential work at the intersection of higher education and public policy.
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B.
Edward S. Feldman
Edward S. Feldman is an American film producer known for overseeing a range of notable movies across several decades, including acclaimed dramas and thrillers.
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C.
Arthur J. Goldberg
Arthur J. Goldberg was an American lawyer, U.S. Supreme Court associate justice, and former Secretary of Labor known for his strong support of civil rights and labor rights.
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D.
Stanley Uris
Stanley Uris is a cautious, anxiety-prone member of the Losers' Club in Stephen King's "It," whose fear and vulnerability play a pivotal role in the story's exploration of trauma and courage.
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E.
Arnold B. Arons
Arnold B. Arons was an influential American physics educator and author known for his pioneering work in physics education research and inquiry-based science teaching.
- 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: Harold D. Uris Target entity description: Harold D. Uris was an American real estate developer and philanthropist, best known for co-founding Uris Buildings Corporation and for his major donations to educational institutions such as Cornell University.
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A.
Harold T. Shapiro
Harold T. Shapiro is an economist and academic leader best known for serving as president of both Princeton University and the University of Michigan and for his influential work at the intersection of higher education and public policy.
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B.
Edward S. Feldman
Edward S. Feldman is an American film producer known for overseeing a range of notable movies across several decades, including acclaimed dramas and thrillers.
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C.
Arthur J. Goldberg
Arthur J. Goldberg was an American lawyer, U.S. Supreme Court associate justice, and former Secretary of Labor known for his strong support of civil rights and labor rights.
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D.
Stanley Uris
Stanley Uris is a cautious, anxiety-prone member of the Losers' Club in Stephen King's "It," whose fear and vulnerability play a pivotal role in the story's exploration of trauma and courage.
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E.
Arnold B. Arons
Arnold B. Arons was an influential American physics educator and author known for his pioneering work in physics education research and inquiry-based science teaching.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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philanthropist ⓘ real estate developer ⓘ |
| alumniOf | Cornell University ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| businessPartner | Percy Uris ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Uris Brothers
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Uris Buildings Corporation ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| donatedTo |
Cornell University
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educational institutions in the United States ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Cornell University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
property development
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real estate ⓘ |
| industry | real estate ⓘ |
| knownFor | New York City real estate development ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
major donations to educational institutions
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philanthropy toward Cornell University ⓘ support of higher education ⓘ |
| notableWork | co-founding Uris Buildings Corporation ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
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philanthropist ⓘ real estate developer ⓘ |
| sibling | Percy Uris ⓘ |
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: Harold D. Uris Description of subject: Harold D. Uris was an American real estate developer and philanthropist, best known for co-founding Uris Buildings Corporation and for his major donations to educational institutions such as Cornell University.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Harold D. Uris