Uris Library
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Uris Library is a historic academic library at Cornell University, prominently located on the Arts Quad and known for its iconic clocktower and extensive humanities collections.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Uris Library canonical | 9 |
| Uris Library complex | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T307594 — 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: Uris Library Context triple: [Cornell University Arts Quad, surroundedBy, Uris Library]
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A.
Gutman Library
Gutman Library is Harvard University's primary library for the Graduate School of Education, specializing in resources on education, learning, and related social sciences.
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B.
Hayden Library
Hayden Library is the main humanities and science library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, serving as a central hub for research and study on campus.
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C.
Rotch Library
Rotch Library is MIT’s primary library for architecture, planning, and art, housing specialized collections and resources that support research and education in these fields.
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D.
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is a renowned Yale University research library famous for its vast collection of rare books, manuscripts, and literary archives housed in a distinctive modernist building.
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E.
Baker Library
Baker Library is Harvard Business School’s principal library, renowned for its extensive collections in business and management and its iconic presence on the Boston campus.
- 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: Uris Library Target entity description: Uris Library is a historic academic library at Cornell University, prominently located on the Arts Quad and known for its iconic clocktower and extensive humanities collections.
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A.
Gutman Library
Gutman Library is Harvard University's primary library for the Graduate School of Education, specializing in resources on education, learning, and related social sciences.
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B.
Hayden Library
Hayden Library is the main humanities and science library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, serving as a central hub for research and study on campus.
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C.
Rotch Library
Rotch Library is MIT’s primary library for architecture, planning, and art, housing specialized collections and resources that support research and education in these fields.
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D.
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is a renowned Yale University research library famous for its vast collection of rare books, manuscripts, and literary archives housed in a distinctive modernist building.
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E.
Baker Library
Baker Library is Harvard Business School’s principal library, renowned for its extensive collections in business and management and its iconic presence on the Boston campus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic library
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clock tower ⓘ historic building ⓘ university library ⓘ |
| affiliation | Ivy League ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Collegiate Gothic ⓘ |
| buildingType | library building ⓘ |
| campus | Cornell University Arts Quad ⓘ |
| campusType | college campus ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasCollection |
humanities
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rare books ⓘ social sciences ⓘ special collections ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
circulation desk
ⓘ
reading rooms ⓘ stacks ⓘ study spaces ⓘ |
| hasLandmark | McGraw Tower clock ⓘ |
| hasPart | McGraw Tower ⓘ |
| hasView |
Cayuga Lake
ⓘ
East Hill, Cornell University ⓘ
surface form:
Cornell University campus
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| heritageStatus | historic campus landmark ⓘ |
| inception | 1891 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
historic architecture
ⓘ
humanities collections ⓘ reading rooms ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cornell University
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Cornell University ⓘ Ithaca, New York, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Ithaca, New York
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| locatedNear |
Goldwin Smith Hall
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McGraw Hall ⓘ Olin Library ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Arts Quad ⓘ |
| name | Uris Library self-link ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Harold D. Uris ⓘ |
| operator |
Cornell University Library system
ⓘ
surface form:
Cornell University Library
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| ownedBy | Cornell University ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cornell University Library system
ⓘ
Uris Library self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Uris Library complex
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| primaryLanguageOfCollections | English ⓘ |
| serves |
Cornell University faculty
ⓘ
Cornell University students ⓘ |
| subjectFocus |
area studies
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classics ⓘ history ⓘ literature ⓘ philosophy ⓘ |
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: Uris Library Description of subject: Uris Library is a historic academic library at Cornell University, prominently located on the Arts Quad and known for its iconic clocktower and extensive humanities collections.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
McGraw Tower
this entity surface form:
Uris Library complex