Starkweather Hall
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Starkweather Hall is a historic building located on the campus of Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan, known as one of the institution’s oldest surviving structures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Starkweather Hall canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2690671 — 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: Starkweather Hall Context triple: [Ypsilanti, hasHistoricBuilding, Starkweather Hall]
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A.
Lanman-Wright Hall
Lanman-Wright Hall is a historic Yale University residence hall located on the Old Campus that primarily houses first-year students.
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B.
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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C.
Durfee Hall
Durfee Hall is a historic residential dormitory located on Yale University's Old Campus in New Haven, Connecticut.
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D.
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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E.
O’Brien Hall
O’Brien Hall is a key academic and research building associated with the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
- 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: Starkweather Hall Target entity description: Starkweather Hall is a historic building located on the campus of Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan, known as one of the institution’s oldest surviving structures.
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A.
Lanman-Wright Hall
Lanman-Wright Hall is a historic Yale University residence hall located on the Old Campus that primarily houses first-year students.
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B.
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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C.
Durfee Hall
Durfee Hall is a historic residential dormitory located on Yale University's Old Campus in New Haven, Connecticut.
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D.
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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E.
O’Brien Hall
O’Brien Hall is a key academic and research building associated with the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic building
ⓘ
university building ⓘ |
| architecturalFunction | academic building ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Eastern Michigan University history ⓘ |
| campusBuildingOf | Eastern Michigan University ⓘ |
| city | Ypsilanti ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasSignificance |
architectural significance on Eastern Michigan University campus
ⓘ
historical significance for Eastern Michigan University ⓘ |
| hasType | hall ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic structure ⓘ |
| isEducationalSite | yes ⓘ |
| isSurvivingStructure | yes ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Eastern Michigan University campus
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Michigan University
Michigan ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Washtenaw County, Michigan ⓘ Ypsilanti, Michigan ⓘ
linked to:
Ypsilanti
|
| namedAfter | Starkweather family (inferred namesake) ⓘ |
| partOf | Eastern Michigan University ⓘ |
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| relativeAge | one of the oldest surviving buildings on the Eastern Michigan University campus ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Michigan (most of state)
|
| usedFor | university purposes ⓘ |
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: Starkweather Hall Description of subject: Starkweather Hall is a historic building located on the campus of Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan, known as one of the institution’s oldest surviving structures.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.