Harvard College residential system
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The Harvard College residential system is the network of undergraduate dormitories and Houses that structures students’ living, social, and academic life at Harvard University.
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T489992 — 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: Harvard College residential system Context triple: [Thayer Hall, partOf, Harvard College residential system]
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A.
Harvard Hall
Harvard Hall is a historic academic building at Harvard University, known for housing classrooms and lecture halls in the heart of Harvard Yard.
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B.
Harvard University Allston campus
Harvard University Allston campus is Harvard’s expanding campus across the Charles River from Cambridge that hosts athletic facilities like Lavietes Pavilion along with growing academic and research spaces.
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C.
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
The Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is Harvard University's primary graduate school for advanced study and research in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
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D.
Massachusetts Hall
Massachusetts Hall is one of Harvard University's oldest buildings, historically used as a dormitory and administrative space in Harvard Yard.
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E.
Amherst College
Amherst College is a highly selective private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, known for its rigorous academics and open curriculum.
- 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: Harvard College residential system Target entity description: The Harvard College residential system is the network of undergraduate dormitories and Houses that structures students’ living, social, and academic life at Harvard University.
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A.
Harvard Hall
Harvard Hall is a historic academic building at Harvard University, known for housing classrooms and lecture halls in the heart of Harvard Yard.
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B.
Harvard University Allston campus
Harvard University Allston campus is Harvard’s expanding campus across the Charles River from Cambridge that hosts athletic facilities like Lavietes Pavilion along with growing academic and research spaces.
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C.
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
The Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is Harvard University's primary graduate school for advanced study and research in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
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D.
Massachusetts Hall
Massachusetts Hall is one of Harvard University's oldest buildings, historically used as a dormitory and administrative space in Harvard Yard.
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E.
Amherst College
Amherst College is a highly selective private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, known for its rigorous academics and open curriculum.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
collegiate house system
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university residential system ⓘ |
| hasGoal |
to foster community among Harvard College students
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to integrate living and learning for undergraduates ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Adams House
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Cabot House ⓘ Currier House ⓘ Dunster House ⓘ Eliot House ⓘ Massachusetts Hall ⓘ
surface form:
Harvard Yard freshman dormitories
Kirkland House ⓘ Leverett House ⓘ Lowell House ⓘ Mather House ⓘ Pforzheimer House ⓘ Quincy House ⓘ Winthrop House ⓘ |
| includesComponent |
Yale College Deans of College
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surface form:
Faculty Deans
Harvard College residential system self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Harvard College freshman dormitories
Harvard College residential system self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Harvard College upperclass Houses
House common rooms ⓘ House dining halls ⓘ House libraries ⓘ House tutors ⓘ Yale College Deans of College ⓘ
surface form:
Resident Deans
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| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| organizes |
aspects of undergraduate academic life at Harvard College
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undergraduate residential life at Harvard College ⓘ undergraduate social life at Harvard College ⓘ |
| partOf |
Harvard University
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surface form:
Harvard College
Harvard University ⓘ |
| primaryResidenceFor |
juniors at Harvard College
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seniors at Harvard College ⓘ sophomores at Harvard College ⓘ |
| serves | Harvard College undergraduates ⓘ |
| usesProcess |
House assignment for upperclass students
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first-year housing in Harvard Yard ⓘ |
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: Harvard College residential system Description of subject: The Harvard College residential system is the network of undergraduate dormitories and Houses that structures students’ living, social, and academic life at Harvard University.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Harvard freshman dormitory system
Harvard College residential system
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includesComponent
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Harvard College residential system
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Harvard College freshman dormitories
Harvard College residential system
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includesComponent
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Harvard College residential system
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Harvard College upperclass Houses
Stoughton Hall at Harvard College (original benefactor)
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affiliation
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Harvard College residential system
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subject surface form:
Harvard University
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Harvard University Housing
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Harvard University
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Harvard University Housing
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Harvard College House system
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Harvard College House system
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Harvard College House system
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Harvard College House system
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Harvard College houses
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Harvard College House system
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Harvard College House system
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Harvard College houses
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Harvard College House system
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Harvard College housing lottery
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Harvard College House system
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Harvard College House system
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Harvard College houses
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Harvard College House system
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Eliot House
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Harvard College House system