Foster Auditorium
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Foster Auditorium is a historic building on the University of Alabama campus, best known as the site of Governor George Wallace’s 1963 attempt to block the enrollment of Black students in the infamous "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" incident.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Foster Auditorium canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2751107 — 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: Foster Auditorium Context triple: [1963 "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" incident, location, Foster Auditorium]
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A.
Keller Auditorium
Keller Auditorium is a major performing arts venue in downtown Portland, Oregon, hosting Broadway tours, concerts, and other large-scale cultural events.
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B.
Laxson Auditorium
Laxson Auditorium is a historic performing arts venue on the California State University, Chico campus that hosts concerts, theater productions, lectures, and cultural events.
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C.
Miller Auditorium
Miller Auditorium is a major performing arts venue in Kalamazoo, Michigan, hosting concerts, Broadway tours, and other large-scale cultural events.
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D.
Hancher Auditorium
Hancher Auditorium is a major performing arts venue at the University of Iowa known for hosting concerts, theater, dance, and other cultural events.
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E.
Kresge Auditorium
Kresge Auditorium is a landmark modernist performance hall at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, renowned for its distinctive thin-shell concrete dome designed by architect Eero Saarinen.
- 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: Foster Auditorium Target entity description: Foster Auditorium is a historic building on the University of Alabama campus, best known as the site of Governor George Wallace’s 1963 attempt to block the enrollment of Black students in the infamous "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" incident.
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A.
Keller Auditorium
Keller Auditorium is a major performing arts venue in downtown Portland, Oregon, hosting Broadway tours, concerts, and other large-scale cultural events.
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B.
Laxson Auditorium
Laxson Auditorium is a historic performing arts venue on the California State University, Chico campus that hosts concerts, theater productions, lectures, and cultural events.
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C.
Miller Auditorium
Miller Auditorium is a major performing arts venue in Kalamazoo, Michigan, hosting concerts, Broadway tours, and other large-scale cultural events.
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D.
Hancher Auditorium
Hancher Auditorium is a major performing arts venue at the University of Iowa known for hosting concerts, theater, dance, and other cultural events.
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E.
Kresge Auditorium
Kresge Auditorium is a landmark modernist performance hall at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, renowned for its distinctive thin-shell concrete dome designed by architect Eero Saarinen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Foster Auditorium Description of subject: Foster Auditorium is a historic building on the University of Alabama campus, best known as the site of Governor George Wallace’s 1963 attempt to block the enrollment of Black students in the infamous "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" incident.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.