Sanford Building
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The Sanford Building is the main academic and administrative facility that houses Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sanford Building canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2341063 — 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: Sanford Building Context triple: [Sanford School of Public Policy, hasBuilding, Sanford Building]
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A.
Madison Building
The Madison Building is one of the main Library of Congress structures in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections, reading rooms, and administrative offices.
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B.
McClurg Building
The McClurg Building is a historic Chicago commercial structure recognized as a significant example of early skyscraper design by the architectural firm Holabird & Roche.
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C.
Ricketts Building
The Ricketts Building is an academic facility at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that houses classrooms, laboratories, and offices for engineering and science programs.
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D.
Adams Building
The Adams Building is one of the main Library of Congress buildings in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections and reading rooms.
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E.
Johnson Building
The Johnson Building is a modernist wing of the Boston Public Library’s Copley Square main branch, known for housing its contemporary collections and public services.
- 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: Sanford Building Target entity description: The Sanford Building is the main academic and administrative facility that houses Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy.
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A.
Madison Building
The Madison Building is one of the main Library of Congress structures in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections, reading rooms, and administrative offices.
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B.
McClurg Building
The McClurg Building is a historic Chicago commercial structure recognized as a significant example of early skyscraper design by the architectural firm Holabird & Roche.
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C.
Ricketts Building
The Ricketts Building is an academic facility at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that houses classrooms, laboratories, and offices for engineering and science programs.
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D.
Adams Building
The Adams Building is one of the main Library of Congress buildings in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections and reading rooms.
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E.
Johnson Building
The Johnson Building is a modernist wing of the Boston Public Library’s Copley Square main branch, known for housing its contemporary collections and public services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic building
ⓘ
university building ⓘ |
| affiliation | Duke University ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| function |
main academic facility of the Sanford School of Public Policy
ⓘ
main administrative facility of the Sanford School of Public Policy ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline | public policy ⓘ |
| houses | Sanford School of Public Policy ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Durham, North Carolina ⓘ |
| locatedOnCampusOf | Duke University ⓘ |
| name | Sanford Building ⓘ |
| partOf |
Duke University campus
ⓘ
linked to:
Duke University
|
| usedFor |
administration
ⓘ
public policy education ⓘ 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: Sanford Building Description of subject: The Sanford Building is the main academic and administrative facility that houses Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.