Schermerhorn Hall
E239813
Schermerhorn Hall is an academic building at Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus, known primarily for housing departments in the social sciences and humanities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Schermerhorn Hall canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2113409 — 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: Schermerhorn Hall Context triple: [Morningside Heights campus, hasBuilding, Schermerhorn Hall]
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A.
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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B.
Dekalb Hall
Dekalb Hall is a notable building on Pratt Institute’s Brooklyn campus, serving as one of the institute’s key academic and student-use facilities.
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C.
Phelps Hall
Phelps Hall is a collegiate Gothic-style building at Yale University, known for its distinctive tower and role as a residence and academic space on the Old Campus.
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D.
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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E.
Lanman-Wright Hall
Lanman-Wright Hall is a historic Yale University residence hall located on the Old Campus that primarily houses first-year students.
- 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: Schermerhorn Hall Target entity description: Schermerhorn Hall is an academic building at Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus, known primarily for housing departments in the social sciences and humanities.
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A.
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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B.
Dekalb Hall
Dekalb Hall is a notable building on Pratt Institute’s Brooklyn campus, serving as one of the institute’s key academic and student-use facilities.
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C.
Phelps Hall
Phelps Hall is a collegiate Gothic-style building at Yale University, known for its distinctive tower and role as a residence and academic space on the Old Campus.
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D.
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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E.
Lanman-Wright Hall
Lanman-Wright Hall is a historic Yale University residence hall located on the Old Campus that primarily houses first-year students.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic building
ⓘ
university building ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
humanities
ⓘ
social sciences ⓘ |
| affiliation | Columbia University ⓘ |
| architecturalType | university classroom building ⓘ |
| campus | Morningside Heights campus ⓘ |
| category |
Academic buildings in New York City
ⓘ
Columbia University buildings ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasFunction |
classrooms
ⓘ
faculty offices ⓘ lecture halls ⓘ seminar rooms ⓘ |
| hasOwner | Columbia University ⓘ |
| houses | academic departments ⓘ |
| isOn | main campus of Columbia University ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Columbia University
ⓘ
Manhattan ⓘ Morningside Heights ⓘ New York City ⓘ New York State ⓘ
linked to:
New York
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| namedAfter | Schermerhorn family ⓘ |
| partOf |
Columbia University campus buildings
ⓘ
linked to:
Columbia University buildings
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| usedFor |
administrative offices
ⓘ
research ⓘ teaching ⓘ |
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: Schermerhorn Hall Description of subject: Schermerhorn Hall is an academic building at Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus, known primarily for housing departments in the social sciences and humanities.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.