Old East
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Old East is a historic University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill residence hall, widely regarded as the oldest state university building in the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old East canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4803129 — 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: Old East Context triple: [McCorkle Place, hasLandmark, Old East]
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A.
Old World
Old World is a historical-geographical term referring to Africa, Europe, and Asia, the parts of the world known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas.
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B.
Old Church
Old Church is a historic Gothic-style church in Delft, Netherlands, renowned for its leaning tower and as the burial place of notable Dutch figures.
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C.
Old Church
Old Church is the English name for the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam’s oldest surviving building and a historic Protestant church located in the city’s Red Light District.
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D.
Old Northwest
The Old Northwest was a historic region of the early United States encompassing the territory north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River, which later became the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota.
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E.
Old House
Old House is the historic Adams family residence in Quincy, Massachusetts, best known as the longtime home of U.S. Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
- 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: Old East Target entity description: Old East is a historic University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill residence hall, widely regarded as the oldest state university building in the United States.
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A.
Old World
Old World is a historical-geographical term referring to Africa, Europe, and Asia, the parts of the world known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas.
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B.
Old Church
Old Church is a historic Gothic-style church in Delft, Netherlands, renowned for its leaning tower and as the burial place of notable Dutch figures.
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C.
Old Church
Old Church is the English name for the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam’s oldest surviving building and a historic Protestant church located in the city’s Red Light District.
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D.
Old Northwest
The Old Northwest was a historic region of the early United States encompassing the territory north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River, which later became the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota.
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E.
Old House
Old House is the historic Adams family residence in Quincy, Massachusetts, best known as the longtime home of U.S. Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill building
ⓘ
historic building ⓘ residence hall ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Old West
ⓘ
South Building ⓘ |
| architect | unknown early builder under direction of university trustees ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Federal architecture ⓘ |
| campusQuadrangle | McCorkle Place ⓘ |
| category |
National Historic Landmarks in North Carolina
ⓘ
University and college residential buildings in the United States ⓘ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus ⓘ
linked to:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
|
| completionDate | 1795 ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1793 ⓘ |
| coordinates | 35.912°N 79.051°W ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| faces | McCorkle Place ⓘ |
| floorCount | 3 ⓘ |
| function | undergraduate housing ⓘ |
| governingBody | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ⓘ |
| hasPart |
hallways
ⓘ
stairwells ⓘ student rooms ⓘ |
| hasPlaque | historical marker commemorating its status as the first state university building ⓘ |
| hasRenovation |
1840s renovation and expansion
ⓘ
20th-century restoration ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
National Historic Landmark
ⓘ
National Register of Historic Places listing ⓘ
linked to:
National Register of Historic Places
|
| inception | 1793 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ⓘ |
| material | brick ⓘ |
| namedAfter | its position on the east side of the original campus quadrangle ⓘ |
| NHLDesignationDate | 1965 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with the founding of the University of North Carolina
ⓘ
being widely regarded as the oldest state university building in the United States ⓘ |
| NRHPListingDate | 1966 ⓘ |
| ownedBy | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ⓘ |
| partOf | Old Campus Historic District (UNC-Chapel Hill) ⓘ |
| significance | symbol of the beginning of public higher education in the United States ⓘ |
| significantEvent | cornerstone laid by William Richardson Davie ⓘ |
| startDate | 1793-10-12 ⓘ |
| state | North Carolina ⓘ |
| use |
dormitory
ⓘ
student residence ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Old East Description of subject: Old East is a historic University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill residence hall, widely regarded as the oldest state university building in the United States.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.