Building 20, MIT
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Building 20 at MIT was a famous temporary World War II-era structure known for its makeshift, flexible spaces that fostered groundbreaking research and innovation across multiple disciplines.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Building 20, MIT canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9452497 — 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: Building 20, MIT Context triple: [Building 32, MIT, builtOnSiteOf, Building 20, MIT]
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A.
Building 10, MIT
Building 10 at MIT is a central and iconic academic building best known for supporting the Institute’s Great Dome, a prominent symbol of the campus.
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B.
MIT Building 2
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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C.
MIT Building 24
MIT Building 24 is an academic and research facility located within the central Main Group complex of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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D.
Baker House, MIT
Baker House at MIT is a landmark modernist dormitory renowned for its undulating brick façade and human-centered design by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto.
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E.
MIT Building 26
MIT Building 26 is an academic and research facility on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus, known for housing laboratories and classrooms for science and engineering disciplines.
- 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: Building 20, MIT Target entity description: Building 20 at MIT was a famous temporary World War II-era structure known for its makeshift, flexible spaces that fostered groundbreaking research and innovation across multiple disciplines.
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A.
Building 10, MIT
Building 10 at MIT is a central and iconic academic building best known for supporting the Institute’s Great Dome, a prominent symbol of the campus.
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B.
MIT Building 2
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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C.
MIT Building 24
MIT Building 24 is an academic and research facility located within the central Main Group complex of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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D.
Baker House, MIT
Baker House at MIT is a landmark modernist dormitory renowned for its undulating brick façade and human-centered design by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto.
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E.
MIT Building 26
MIT Building 26 is an academic and research facility on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus, known for housing laboratories and classrooms for science and engineering disciplines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic building
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research facility ⓘ temporary building ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Building 20
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
the magical incubator ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | temporary wooden structure ⓘ |
| associatedWithField |
information theory
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modern linguistics ⓘ radar technology ⓘ |
| associatedWithPerson |
Claude Shannon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jerome Wiesner NERFINISHED ⓘ Noam Chomsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructedDuring | World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructionStartYear | 1943 ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| demolished | 1998 ⓘ |
| demolitionYear | 1998 ⓘ |
| designFeature |
easily reconfigurable interior
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low-cost construction ⓘ unpretentious spaces ⓘ |
| floorPlan | makeshift ⓘ |
| hasNickname | plywood palace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostedOrganization |
MIT Linguistics Department
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
MIT Radiation Laboratory NERFINISHED ⓘ Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT NERFINISHED ⓘ Tech Model Railroad Club NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostedResearchIn |
electrical engineering
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electronics ⓘ linguistics ⓘ nuclear science ⓘ physics ⓘ psychology ⓘ |
| inception | 1943 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
flexible research space
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fostering innovation ⓘ housing diverse research groups ⓘ informal atmosphere ⓘ interdisciplinary collaboration ⓘ |
| legacy |
model of flexible research space design
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symbol of serendipitous innovation ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
ⓘ
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| material | wood ⓘ |
| numberOfStories | 3 ⓘ |
| originalPurpose |
radar research
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war research ⓘ |
| partOf | MIT campus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Ray and Maria Stata Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Building 20, MIT Description of subject: Building 20 at MIT was a famous temporary World War II-era structure known for its makeshift, flexible spaces that fostered groundbreaking research and innovation across multiple disciplines.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.