Maclaurin buildings
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The Maclaurin buildings are a prominent set of neoclassical academic structures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that form the iconic architectural backdrop to Killian Court.
All labels observed (1)
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| Maclaurin buildings canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8486934 — 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: Maclaurin buildings Context triple: [Killian Court, boundedBy, Maclaurin buildings]
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A.
Porteous Building
The Porteous Building is the historic flagship facility of the Maine College of Art & Design in downtown Portland, Maine, housing its studios, classrooms, and galleries.
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B.
Darling and Pearson buildings
The Darling and Pearson buildings are early 20th-century hospital structures in Toronto designed by the prominent Canadian architectural firm Darling and Pearson.
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C.
Nicol Building
Nicol Building is the modern, purpose-built facility that houses Carleton University's Sprott School of Business in Ottawa, Canada.
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D.
Burrell Building
The Burrell Building is a historic commercial structure in downtown Little Falls, New York, noted for its architectural significance and role in the city’s late-19th-century development.
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E.
Carlyle House
Carlyle House is a historic 18th-century stone mansion and museum in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, noted for its colonial architecture and role in early American history.
- 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: Maclaurin buildings Target entity description: The Maclaurin buildings are a prominent set of neoclassical academic structures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that form the iconic architectural backdrop to Killian Court.
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A.
Porteous Building
The Porteous Building is the historic flagship facility of the Maine College of Art & Design in downtown Portland, Maine, housing its studios, classrooms, and galleries.
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B.
Darling and Pearson buildings
The Darling and Pearson buildings are early 20th-century hospital structures in Toronto designed by the prominent Canadian architectural firm Darling and Pearson.
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C.
Nicol Building
Nicol Building is the modern, purpose-built facility that houses Carleton University's Sprott School of Business in Ottawa, Canada.
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D.
Burrell Building
The Burrell Building is a historic commercial structure in downtown Little Falls, New York, noted for its architectural significance and role in the city’s late-19th-century development.
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E.
Carlyle House
Carlyle House is a historic 18th-century stone mansion and museum in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, noted for its colonial architecture and role in early American history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Maclaurin buildings Description of subject: The Maclaurin buildings are a prominent set of neoclassical academic structures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that form the iconic architectural backdrop to Killian Court.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.