Butler Library
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Butler Library is Columbia University's main academic library, renowned for its extensive humanities and social sciences collections and its prominent neoclassical building on the Morningside Heights campus.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Butler Library canonical | 19 |
| Butler Library (across the main lawn) | 1 |
| Butler Library axis | 1 |
| Butler Library facade | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2113401 — 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: Butler Library Context triple: [Morningside Heights campus, hasBuilding, Butler Library]
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A.
Stauffer Library
Stauffer Library is the main research and academic library at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, serving as a central hub for student study, resources, and scholarly work.
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Whittaker Library
Whittaker Library is the specialist academic library of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, supporting study and research in music, drama, dance, and related performing arts.
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C.
Brooks Library
Brooks Library is an academic library that serves the students and staff of Manchester Metropolitan University, providing access to scholarly resources and study facilities.
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D.
Baker Library
Baker Library is Harvard Business School’s principal library, renowned for its extensive collections in business and management and its iconic presence on the Boston campus.
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E.
Robbins Library
Robbins Library is a historic public library and cultural landmark serving the community of Arlington, Massachusetts.
- 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: Butler Library Target entity description: Butler Library is Columbia University's main academic library, renowned for its extensive humanities and social sciences collections and its prominent neoclassical building on the Morningside Heights campus.
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A.
Stauffer Library
Stauffer Library is the main research and academic library at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, serving as a central hub for student study, resources, and scholarly work.
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B.
Whittaker Library
Whittaker Library is the specialist academic library of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, supporting study and research in music, drama, dance, and related performing arts.
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C.
Brooks Library
Brooks Library is an academic library that serves the students and staff of Manchester Metropolitan University, providing access to scholarly resources and study facilities.
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D.
Baker Library
Baker Library is Harvard Business School’s principal library, renowned for its extensive collections in business and management and its iconic presence on the Boston campus.
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E.
Robbins Library
Robbins Library is a historic public library and cultural landmark serving the community of Arlington, Massachusetts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic library
ⓘ
building ⓘ university library ⓘ |
| affiliation | Columbia University ⓘ |
| architect | James Gamble Rogers ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Neoclassical architecture ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasAddress | 535 West 114th Street, New York, NY (campus location) ⓘ |
| hasCollectionFocus |
humanities
ⓘ
social sciences ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
repository for special collections
ⓘ
research library ⓘ study space for students ⓘ |
| hasReadingRooms | yes ⓘ |
| hasStacks | yes ⓘ |
| inception | 1934 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
ⓘ
Morningside Heights ⓘ New York City ⓘ New York State ⓘ
linked to:
New York
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| name | Butler Library ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Nicholas Murray Butler ⓘ |
| opened | 1934 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Columbia University Libraries ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Columbia University ⓘ |
| partOf |
Columbia University campus
ⓘ
linked to:
Columbia University buildings
Ivy League university infrastructure ⓘ |
| role | main academic library of Columbia University ⓘ |
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: Butler Library Description of subject: Butler Library is Columbia University's main academic library, renowned for its extensive humanities and social sciences collections and its prominent neoclassical building on the Morningside Heights campus.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Butler Library
linked to: Butler Library