Percy Uris
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Percy Uris was an American real estate developer and philanthropist known for his major contributions to educational institutions, particularly Columbia University.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Percy Uris canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2115635 — 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: Percy Uris Context triple: [Uris Hall, namedAfter, Percy Uris]
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A.
Stanley Uris
Stanley Uris is a cautious, anxiety-prone member of the Losers' Club in Stephen King's "It," whose fear and vulnerability play a pivotal role in the story's exploration of trauma and courage.
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B.
Myron Futterman
Myron Futterman was an American businessman best known for being the first husband of actress Jane Wyman.
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C.
Dashiell Weinstein
Dashiell Weinstein is one of the children of disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein.
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D.
Henry Alsberg
Henry Alsberg was an American journalist, editor, and theater producer best known for directing the New Deal–era Federal Writers’ Project, which employed thousands of writers during the Great Depression.
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E.
Sidney Wolinsky
Sidney Wolinsky is a Canadian-American film and television editor best known for his work on acclaimed projects such as the Oscar-winning film "The Shape of Water" and the series "The Sopranos."
- 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: Percy Uris Target entity description: Percy Uris was an American real estate developer and philanthropist known for his major contributions to educational institutions, particularly Columbia University.
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A.
Stanley Uris
Stanley Uris is a cautious, anxiety-prone member of the Losers' Club in Stephen King's "It," whose fear and vulnerability play a pivotal role in the story's exploration of trauma and courage.
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B.
Myron Futterman
Myron Futterman was an American businessman best known for being the first husband of actress Jane Wyman.
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C.
Dashiell Weinstein
Dashiell Weinstein is one of the children of disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein.
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D.
Henry Alsberg
Henry Alsberg was an American journalist, editor, and theater producer best known for directing the New Deal–era Federal Writers’ Project, which employed thousands of writers during the Great Depression.
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E.
Sidney Wolinsky
Sidney Wolinsky is a Canadian-American film and television editor best known for his work on acclaimed projects such as the Oscar-winning film "The Shape of Water" and the series "The Sopranos."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
philanthropist ⓘ real estate developer ⓘ |
| alumniOf | Columbia University ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Uris Brothers ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Columbia University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | real estate development ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Uris ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Percy ⓘ |
| industry | real estate ⓘ |
| knownFor |
New York City office building development
ⓘ
donations to higher education ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Uris family
ⓘ
linked to:
Uris Brothers
|
| notableBeneficiary | Columbia University ⓘ |
| notableFor |
major philanthropic contributions to educational institutions
ⓘ
major philanthropic support for Columbia University ⓘ |
| notableProject |
support for Columbia University Business School facilities
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support for construction of Uris Hall at Columbia University ⓘ |
| notableWork | commercial office buildings in New York City ⓘ |
| occupation |
philanthropist
ⓘ
real estate developer ⓘ |
| philanthropicFocus |
education
ⓘ
universities ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | New York City ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sibling |
Harold Uris
ⓘ
linked to:
Harold D. Uris
|
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: Percy Uris Description of subject: Percy Uris was an American real estate developer and philanthropist known for his major contributions to educational institutions, particularly Columbia University.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.