Oscar A. Silverman Library
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The Oscar A. Silverman Library is a major academic library at the University at Buffalo, providing study spaces, research resources, and services primarily for students and faculty on the North Campus.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Oscar A. Silverman Library canonical | 3 |
| Silverman Library | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10455836 — 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: Oscar A. Silverman Library Context triple: [North Campus, hasFacility, Oscar A. Silverman Library]
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A.
Albert L. Scott Library
Albert L. Scott Library is the public library serving the community of Alabaster, Alabama, offering lending materials, programs, and information services to local residents.
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B.
Irwin Library
Irwin Library is the main academic library at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, supporting the university’s teaching and research needs.
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C.
James E. Shepard Memorial Library
James E. Shepard Memorial Library is the main academic library and research hub of North Carolina Central University, serving students, faculty, and the surrounding community.
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D.
Pollack Library
Pollack Library is an academic library that serves the students and faculty of Yeshiva University.
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E.
Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library
Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library is the principal research library at Princeton University, renowned for its extensive collections in the humanities and social sciences.
- 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: Oscar A. Silverman Library Target entity description: The Oscar A. Silverman Library is a major academic library at the University at Buffalo, providing study spaces, research resources, and services primarily for students and faculty on the North Campus.
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A.
Albert L. Scott Library
Albert L. Scott Library is the public library serving the community of Alabaster, Alabama, offering lending materials, programs, and information services to local residents.
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B.
Irwin Library
Irwin Library is the main academic library at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, supporting the university’s teaching and research needs.
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C.
James E. Shepard Memorial Library
James E. Shepard Memorial Library is the main academic library and research hub of North Carolina Central University, serving students, faculty, and the surrounding community.
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D.
Pollack Library
Pollack Library is an academic library that serves the students and faculty of Yeshiva University.
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E.
Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library
Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library is the principal research library at Princeton University, renowned for its extensive collections in the humanities and social sciences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | academic library ⓘ |
| affiliation | University at Buffalo Libraries ⓘ |
| campus | North Campus ⓘ |
| city | Amherst, New York ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasType | on-campus library facility ⓘ |
| languageOfService | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | University at Buffalo ⓘ |
| name | Oscar A. Silverman Library ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
University at Buffalo Libraries system
ⓘ
linked to:
University at Buffalo Libraries
|
| parentOrganization | University at Buffalo ⓘ |
| partOf | University at Buffalo North Campus infrastructure ⓘ |
| primaryUsers |
university faculty
ⓘ
university students ⓘ |
| provides |
access to books
ⓘ
access to electronic databases ⓘ access to journals ⓘ computer workstations ⓘ group study rooms ⓘ information literacy support ⓘ quiet study areas ⓘ reference services ⓘ research resources ⓘ study spaces ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
faculty
ⓘ
graduate students ⓘ undergraduate students ⓘ |
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: Oscar A. Silverman Library Description of subject: The Oscar A. Silverman Library is a major academic library at the University at Buffalo, providing study spaces, research resources, and services primarily for students and faculty on the North Campus.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Oscar A. Silverman Library