College of Physicians and Surgeons building
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The College of Physicians and Surgeons building is Columbia University's primary medical school facility, housing classrooms, laboratories, and offices for its medical education and research programs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| College of Physicians and Surgeons building canonical | 1 |
| Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons building | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6501846 — 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: College of Physicians and Surgeons building Context triple: [Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center buildings, hasPart, College of Physicians and Surgeons building]
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A.
Sterling Hall of Medicine
Sterling Hall of Medicine is a principal academic and research facility of the Yale School of Medicine, housing classrooms, laboratories, and administrative offices for medical education and biomedical science.
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B.
Medical Sciences Building
The Medical Sciences Building is a major academic and research facility at the University of Toronto that houses laboratories, classrooms, and offices for health and biomedical sciences.
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C.
Health Sciences Building
The Health Sciences Building is a dedicated academic and research facility at the University of Alaska Anchorage that supports programs in nursing, allied health, and related medical fields.
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D.
McIntyre Medical Sciences Building
The McIntyre Medical Sciences Building is a major academic and research facility of McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine located on its downtown Montreal campus.
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E.
Lyman Duff Medical Building
The Lyman Duff Medical Building is a key academic and research facility dedicated to medical sciences located on the downtown Montreal 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: College of Physicians and Surgeons building Target entity description: The College of Physicians and Surgeons building is Columbia University's primary medical school facility, housing classrooms, laboratories, and offices for its medical education and research programs.
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A.
Sterling Hall of Medicine
Sterling Hall of Medicine is a principal academic and research facility of the Yale School of Medicine, housing classrooms, laboratories, and administrative offices for medical education and biomedical science.
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B.
Medical Sciences Building
The Medical Sciences Building is a major academic and research facility at the University of Toronto that houses laboratories, classrooms, and offices for health and biomedical sciences.
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C.
Health Sciences Building
The Health Sciences Building is a dedicated academic and research facility at the University of Alaska Anchorage that supports programs in nursing, allied health, and related medical fields.
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D.
McIntyre Medical Sciences Building
The McIntyre Medical Sciences Building is a major academic and research facility of McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine located on its downtown Montreal campus.
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E.
Lyman Duff Medical Building
The Lyman Duff Medical Building is a key academic and research facility dedicated to medical sciences located on the downtown Montreal campus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educational facility
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medical school building ⓘ university building ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith | Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons ⓘ |
| category |
Columbia University building
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medical school facility ⓘ |
| contains |
administrative offices
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classrooms ⓘ faculty offices ⓘ laboratories ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| hasFunction |
supporting biomedical research
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training physicians ⓘ |
| languageOfSignage | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
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New York ⓘ New York City ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Columbia University ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Columbia University ⓘ |
| partOf |
Columbia University
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Columbia University Irving Medical Center ⓘ |
| primaryFacilityFor | Columbia University medical school ⓘ |
| use |
administrative offices
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medical education ⓘ medical research ⓘ |
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: College of Physicians and Surgeons building Description of subject: The College of Physicians and Surgeons building is Columbia University's primary medical school facility, housing classrooms, laboratories, and offices for its medical education and research programs.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center buildings
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hasPart
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College of Physicians and Surgeons building
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linked to: College of Physicians and Surgeons building