Baker House, MIT
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Baker House at MIT is a landmark modernist dormitory renowned for its undulating brick façade and human-centered design by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Baker House | 2 |
| Baker House MIT Dormitory | 1 |
| Baker House, MIT canonical | 1 |
| Baker House, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2106570 — 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: Baker House, MIT Context triple: [Alvar Aalto, notableWork, Baker House, MIT]
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A.
MIT Building 8
MIT Building 8 is one of the interconnected main academic buildings on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus, housing classrooms, laboratories, and offices along the central Infinite Corridor.
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MIT Building 3
MIT Building 3 is one of the main interconnected academic buildings on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus, housing classrooms, offices, and research spaces.
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MIT Building 54
MIT Building 54 is a prominent high-rise tower on the MIT campus that houses the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and is known for its meteorological and geophysical research facilities.
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D.
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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E.
MIT Building 4
MIT Building 4 is a central academic building on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus that houses the Institute’s Mathematics Department and various classrooms and offices.
- 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: Baker House, MIT Target entity description: 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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A.
MIT Building 8
MIT Building 8 is one of the interconnected main academic buildings on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus, housing classrooms, laboratories, and offices along the central Infinite Corridor.
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B.
MIT Building 3
MIT Building 3 is one of the main interconnected academic buildings on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus, housing classrooms, offices, and research spaces.
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C.
MIT Building 54
MIT Building 54 is a prominent high-rise tower on the MIT campus that houses the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and is known for its meteorological and geophysical research facilities.
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D.
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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E.
MIT Building 4
MIT Building 4 is a central academic building on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus that houses the Institute’s Mathematics Department and various classrooms and offices.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architectural landmark
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modernist building ⓘ residence hall ⓘ university dormitory ⓘ |
| affiliation | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| architect |
Aino Aalto
ⓘ
Alvar Aalto ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Modernism
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human-centered design ⓘ |
| campus | MIT campus ⓘ |
| city | Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1949 ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| floorCount | 6 ⓘ |
| function | undergraduate housing ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalSignificance |
important example of Alvar Aalto’s work in the United States
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noted for integrating social and spatial design for students ⓘ |
| hasCapacity | approximately 350 residents ⓘ |
| hasDesignGoal |
maximize light and views for student rooms
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promote social interaction among residents ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
dining hall
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lounges ⓘ music room ⓘ study spaces ⓘ |
| hasNickname | Baker ⓘ |
| hasOrientation | aligned along the Charles River embankment ⓘ |
| hasPlanType | S-shaped plan ⓘ |
| hasResidentType | MIT undergraduates ⓘ |
| hasRoomType |
double rooms
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single rooms ⓘ |
| hasUse | student residence ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
ⓘ
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| material | brick ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Everett Moore Baker ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
central dining hall
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curved plan along the Charles River ⓘ river views for many rooms ⓘ split-level corridors ⓘ undulating brick façade ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1949 ⓘ |
| operator | MIT Housing and Residential Services ⓘ |
| overlooks | Charles River ⓘ |
| partOf |
MIT undergraduate residence system
ⓘ
linked to:
MIT Housing and Residential Services
|
| region | New England ⓘ |
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: Baker House, MIT Description of subject: Baker House at MIT is a landmark modernist dormitory renowned for its undulating brick façade and human-centered design by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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