McGraw Rotunda
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McGraw Rotunda is an ornate, mural-lined ceremonial hall in the New York Public Library’s main Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, known for its grand Beaux-Arts architecture and historic artwork.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| McGraw Rotunda canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T915953 — 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: McGraw Rotunda Context triple: [Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, hasPart, McGraw Rotunda]
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A.
McGraw Hall
McGraw Hall is one of Cornell University's historic academic buildings, prominently located on the Arts Quad and housing various humanities and social science departments.
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B.
Sibley Hall
Sibley Hall is a historic academic building on Cornell University’s Arts Quad, known for housing the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.
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C.
Straus Hall
Straus Hall is an undergraduate dormitory in Harvard Yard at Harvard University, known for housing first-year students.
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D.
William L. Harkness Hall
William L. Harkness Hall is an academic building at Yale University, known for housing classrooms and lecture halls for the humanities and social sciences.
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E.
Stimson Hall
Stimson Hall is an academic building on Cornell University’s central Arts Quad, known for housing science departments and contributing to the historic collegiate Gothic character of the campus.
- 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: McGraw Rotunda Target entity description: McGraw Rotunda is an ornate, mural-lined ceremonial hall in the New York Public Library’s main Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, known for its grand Beaux-Arts architecture and historic artwork.
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A.
McGraw Hall
McGraw Hall is one of Cornell University's historic academic buildings, prominently located on the Arts Quad and housing various humanities and social science departments.
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B.
Sibley Hall
Sibley Hall is a historic academic building on Cornell University’s Arts Quad, known for housing the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.
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C.
Straus Hall
Straus Hall is an undergraduate dormitory in Harvard Yard at Harvard University, known for housing first-year students.
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D.
William L. Harkness Hall
William L. Harkness Hall is an academic building at Yale University, known for housing classrooms and lecture halls for the humanities and social sciences.
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E.
Stimson Hall
Stimson Hall is an academic building on Cornell University’s central Arts Quad, known for housing science departments and contributing to the historic collegiate Gothic character of the campus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architectural feature
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ceremonial hall ⓘ interior space ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Beaux-Arts ⓘ |
| associatedWith | New York Public Library ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | iconic interior of the New York Public Library ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalType | rotunda ⓘ |
| hasArtworkType |
allegorical murals
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historical murals ⓘ mural cycle ⓘ |
| hasDecorativeElement |
arched openings
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coffered ceiling ⓘ decorative lighting fixtures ⓘ large wall murals ⓘ ornamental moldings ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
ceremonial space
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entrance hall to main reading rooms ⓘ processional hall ⓘ |
| hasMaterial |
marble
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plaster ⓘ stone ⓘ |
| hasViewOf | murals depicting themes related to knowledge and learning ⓘ |
| heritageStatus |
contributing interior to a New York City Landmark building
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part of a National Historic Landmark building ⓘ |
| interiorDesignStyle |
Beaux-Arts classicism
ⓘ
linked to:
Beaux-Arts
|
| isAccessPointTo |
Rose Main Reading Room
ⓘ
third-floor reading rooms of the New York Public Library ⓘ |
| knownFor |
decorative ceiling
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grand Beaux-Arts architecture ⓘ historic artwork ⓘ ornate murals ⓘ symbolic iconography ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
476 Fifth Avenue
ⓘ
Manhattan ⓘ New York City ⓘ New York Public Library Main Branch ⓘ
linked to:
New York Public Library
New York State ⓘ
linked to:
New York
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| namedAfter | James H. McGraw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openToPublic | true ⓘ |
| partOf |
New York Public Library Main Branch public spaces
ⓘ
New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building interior ⓘ |
| sponsor | McGraw family ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | true ⓘ |
| usedFor |
exhibition of murals
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public circulation ⓘ special events ⓘ |
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: McGraw Rotunda Description of subject: McGraw Rotunda is an ornate, mural-lined ceremonial hall in the New York Public Library’s main Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, known for its grand Beaux-Arts architecture and historic artwork.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.