Durfee Hall
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Durfee Hall is a historic residential dormitory located on Yale University's Old Campus in New Haven, Connecticut.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Durfee Hall canonical | 4 |
| Farnam Hall | 1 |
| Vanderbilt Hall | 1 |
| Welch Hall | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T187231 — 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: Durfee Hall Context triple: [Old Campus, contains, Durfee Hall]
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A.
Aldrich Hall
Aldrich Hall is a primary classroom and academic building at Harvard Business School, known for hosting many of the school’s MBA courses and case-method discussions.
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B.
Thayer Hall
Thayer Hall is an undergraduate dormitory in Harvard Yard at Harvard University, known for housing first-year students in a central historic campus location.
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C.
Zankel Hall
Zankel Hall is a modern, mid-sized performance venue within New York City's Carnegie Hall complex, known for its flexible space and diverse programming.
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D.
Gilman Hall
Gilman Hall is a historic academic building at the University of California, Berkeley, known for its pivotal role in early 20th-century chemical research, including work related to the discovery of plutonium.
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E.
Matthews Hall
Matthews Hall is a historic red-brick freshman dormitory at Harvard University, located in Harvard Yard.
- 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: Durfee Hall Target entity description: Durfee Hall is a historic residential dormitory located on Yale University's Old Campus in New Haven, Connecticut.
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A.
Aldrich Hall
Aldrich Hall is a primary classroom and academic building at Harvard Business School, known for hosting many of the school’s MBA courses and case-method discussions.
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B.
Thayer Hall
Thayer Hall is an undergraduate dormitory in Harvard Yard at Harvard University, known for housing first-year students in a central historic campus location.
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C.
Zankel Hall
Zankel Hall is a modern, mid-sized performance venue within New York City's Carnegie Hall complex, known for its flexible space and diverse programming.
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D.
Gilman Hall
Gilman Hall is a historic academic building at the University of California, Berkeley, known for its pivotal role in early 20th-century chemical research, including work related to the discovery of plutonium.
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E.
Matthews Hall
Matthews Hall is a historic red-brick freshman dormitory at Harvard University, located in Harvard Yard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Yale University building
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dormitory building ⓘ historic building ⓘ residence hall ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Collegiate Gothic architecture ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1871 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasBasement | true ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLocation | 41.308°N 72.928°W ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
common rooms
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entryways ⓘ student rooms ⓘ |
| hasFloorCount | 4 ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | contributing property to the Yale Old Campus historic district ⓘ |
| inception | 1871 ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| location |
New Haven, Connecticut
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Old Campus ⓘ Yale University ⓘ |
| material |
brick
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brownstone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Bradford M. Durfee ⓘ |
| owner | Yale University ⓘ |
| partOf |
Old Campus at Yale University
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linked to:
Yale University Old Campus
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| serves | Yale College students ⓘ |
| use | undergraduate housing ⓘ |
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: Durfee Hall Description of subject: Durfee Hall is a historic residential dormitory located on Yale University's Old Campus in New Haven, Connecticut.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Durfee Hall
linked to: Durfee Hall
linked to: Durfee Hall