Herbert H. Dow Building
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The Herbert H. Dow Building is an academic and research facility at the University of Michigan that primarily houses engineering and related technical disciplines.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Herbert H. Dow Building canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12919025 — 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: Herbert H. Dow Building Context triple: [North Campus, University of Michigan, containsFacility, Herbert H. Dow Building]
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A.
The Borg-Warner Building
The Borg-Warner Building is a notable Chicago high-rise office tower recognized for its mid-20th-century architecture and its prominent location along Michigan Avenue.
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B.
H. Lee Dennison Building
The H. Lee Dennison Building is a major government office complex in Hauppauge, New York, that serves as the headquarters for Suffolk County’s administrative and legislative functions.
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C.
Frank G. Wells Building
The Frank G. Wells Building is a major office and production facility on the Walt Disney Studios lot in Burbank, California, named in honor of former Disney president Frank G. Wells.
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D.
Davis Building
The Davis Building is a facility located on the campus of the University of Texas at Martin (UTM), used for academic and institutional purposes.
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E.
McClurg Building
The McClurg Building is a historic Chicago commercial structure recognized as a significant example of early skyscraper design by the architectural firm Holabird & Roche.
- 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: Herbert H. Dow Building Target entity description: The Herbert H. Dow Building is an academic and research facility at the University of Michigan that primarily houses engineering and related technical disciplines.
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A.
The Borg-Warner Building
The Borg-Warner Building is a notable Chicago high-rise office tower recognized for its mid-20th-century architecture and its prominent location along Michigan Avenue.
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B.
H. Lee Dennison Building
The H. Lee Dennison Building is a major government office complex in Hauppauge, New York, that serves as the headquarters for Suffolk County’s administrative and legislative functions.
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C.
Frank G. Wells Building
The Frank G. Wells Building is a major office and production facility on the Walt Disney Studios lot in Burbank, California, named in honor of former Disney president Frank G. Wells.
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D.
Davis Building
The Davis Building is a facility located on the campus of the University of Texas at Martin (UTM), used for academic and institutional purposes.
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E.
McClurg Building
The McClurg Building is a historic Chicago commercial structure recognized as a significant example of early skyscraper design by the architectural firm Holabird & Roche.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic building
ⓘ
engineering building ⓘ university building ⓘ |
| affiliation | University of Michigan College of Engineering ⓘ |
| campus |
University of Michigan North Campus
ⓘ
linked to:
North Campus, University of Michigan
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| contains |
classrooms
ⓘ
faculty offices ⓘ laboratories ⓘ research spaces ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| disciplineFocus |
engineering
ⓘ
technical disciplines ⓘ |
| function |
academic facility
ⓘ
research facility ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Ann Arbor, Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Ann Arbor
|
| locatedInState | Michigan ⓘ |
| locatedOnCampusOf | University of Michigan ⓘ |
| name | Herbert H. Dow Building ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Herbert Henry Dow ⓘ |
| namedForNotability | founder of Dow Chemical Company ⓘ |
| namedForOccupation | industrialist ⓘ |
| operatedBy | University of Michigan College of Engineering ⓘ |
| ownedBy | University of Michigan ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
engineering education
ⓘ
engineering 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: Herbert H. Dow Building Description of subject: The Herbert H. Dow Building is an academic and research facility at the University of Michigan that primarily houses engineering and related technical disciplines.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.