MIT Building 2
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MIT Building 2 is a historic academic building on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus that primarily houses the university’s mathematics department and related classrooms and offices.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MIT Building 2 canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T168201 — 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: MIT Building 2 Context triple: [Department of Mathematics (MIT), locatedInBuilding, MIT Building 2]
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A.
MIT Building E14
MIT Building E14 is a contemporary research and academic facility at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that houses much of the MIT Media Lab and related interdisciplinary programs.
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B.
MIT Building E15
MIT Building E15 is the Cambridge, Massachusetts facility that houses the MIT Media Lab and related research programs focused on cutting-edge media, design, and technology.
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C.
MIT Stata Center
MIT Stata Center is a strikingly unconventional academic complex at MIT designed by architect Frank Gehry, known for its deconstructivist architecture and housing research labs, classrooms, and offices.
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D.
MIT West Campus
MIT West Campus is the western portion of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s main campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, encompassing a mix of academic, athletic, and residential facilities.
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E.
Massachusetts Hall
Massachusetts Hall is one of Harvard University's oldest buildings, historically used as a dormitory and administrative space in Harvard Yard.
- 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: MIT Building 2 Target entity description: MIT Building 2 is a historic academic building on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus that primarily houses the university’s mathematics department and related classrooms and offices.
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A.
MIT Building E14
MIT Building E14 is a contemporary research and academic facility at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that houses much of the MIT Media Lab and related interdisciplinary programs.
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B.
MIT Building E15
MIT Building E15 is the Cambridge, Massachusetts facility that houses the MIT Media Lab and related research programs focused on cutting-edge media, design, and technology.
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C.
MIT Stata Center
MIT Stata Center is a strikingly unconventional academic complex at MIT designed by architect Frank Gehry, known for its deconstructivist architecture and housing research labs, classrooms, and offices.
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D.
MIT West Campus
MIT West Campus is the western portion of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s main campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, encompassing a mix of academic, athletic, and residential facilities.
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E.
Massachusetts Hall
Massachusetts Hall is one of Harvard University's oldest buildings, historically used as a dormitory and administrative space in Harvard Yard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic building
ⓘ
historic building ⓘ university building ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | mathematics ⓘ |
| affiliation | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| campus |
MIT Cambridge campus
ⓘ
surface form:
MIT main campus
|
| category |
MIT campus buildings
ⓘ
university mathematics buildings ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| floorUse |
classrooms
ⓘ
meeting rooms ⓘ offices ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
instruction
ⓘ
office space ⓘ research ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic ⓘ |
| houses |
administrative offices
ⓘ
faculty offices ⓘ mathematics classrooms ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
ⓘ
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| maintainedBy | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| partOf |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ⓘ
surface form:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus
|
| primaryOccupant | MIT Department of Mathematics ⓘ |
| usedFor |
academic offices
ⓘ
mathematics research ⓘ mathematics 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: MIT Building 2 Description of subject: MIT Building 2 is a historic academic building on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus that primarily houses the university’s mathematics department and related classrooms and offices.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Department of Mathematics (MIT)