McCool Hall, United States Naval Academy
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McCool Hall at the United States Naval Academy is a building named in honor of astronaut and naval officer William C. McCool, the pilot of the Space Shuttle Columbia’s final mission.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| McCool Hall, United States Naval Academy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3505128 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: McCool Hall, United States Naval Academy Context triple: [William C. McCool, hasMemorial, McCool Hall, United States Naval Academy]
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A.
Nimitz Library at the U.S. Naval Academy
The Nimitz Library at the U.S. Naval Academy is the main academic library serving midshipmen and faculty, housing extensive naval, military, and scholarly collections in support of education and research.
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B.
Navy Hall
Navy Hall is a historic military and governmental complex in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, that served as an early administrative center and residence for colonial officials in Upper Canada.
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C.
Naval Academy
The Naval Academy is the Finnish Navy’s principal institution for educating and training naval officers and specialists.
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D.
McClellan Hall
McClellan Hall is a historic collegiate building located on Yale University's Old Campus in New Haven, Connecticut.
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E.
Cadet Field House
Cadet Field House is a multi-purpose athletic facility at the United States Air Force Academy that hosts the academy’s indoor sports events and training.
- 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: McCool Hall, United States Naval Academy Target entity description: McCool Hall at the United States Naval Academy is a building named in honor of astronaut and naval officer William C. McCool, the pilot of the Space Shuttle Columbia’s final mission.
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A.
Nimitz Library at the U.S. Naval Academy
The Nimitz Library at the U.S. Naval Academy is the main academic library serving midshipmen and faculty, housing extensive naval, military, and scholarly collections in support of education and research.
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B.
Navy Hall
Navy Hall is a historic military and governmental complex in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, that served as an early administrative center and residence for colonial officials in Upper Canada.
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C.
Naval Academy
The Naval Academy is the Finnish Navy’s principal institution for educating and training naval officers and specialists.
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D.
McClellan Hall
McClellan Hall is a historic collegiate building located on Yale University's Old Campus in New Haven, Connecticut.
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E.
Cadet Field House
Cadet Field House is a multi-purpose athletic facility at the United States Air Force Academy that hosts the academy’s indoor sports events and training.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
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: McCool Hall, United States Naval Academy Description of subject: McCool Hall at the United States Naval Academy is a building named in honor of astronaut and naval officer William C. McCool, the pilot of the Space Shuttle Columbia’s final mission.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.