MIT Green Building
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The MIT Green Building is a prominent high-rise research facility on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, best known for housing the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and for its distinctive, minimalist modernist architecture.
All labels observed (1)
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| MIT Green Building canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3944242 — 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: MIT Green Building Context triple: [MIT East Campus, near, MIT Green Building]
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A.
Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities
The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities is a research center at Harvard University dedicated to advancing sustainable, energy-efficient building design and urban development through interdisciplinary research and innovation.
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MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism
The MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism is a research hub at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology dedicated to innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to urban design, planning, and policy for contemporary cities.
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C.
U.S. Green Building Council
The U.S. Green Building Council is a nonprofit organization that promotes sustainability in building design, construction, and operation, best known for developing and overseeing the LEED green building certification system.
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D.
MIT Stata Center
MIT Stata Center is a strikingly unconventional academic complex at MIT designed by architect Frank Gehry, known for its deconstructivist architecture and housing research labs, classrooms, and offices.
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E.
MIT Media Lab complex
The MIT Media Lab complex is a cluster of innovative research and academic facilities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology dedicated to interdisciplinary work at the intersection of technology, media, design, and society.
- 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: MIT Green Building Target entity description: The MIT Green Building is a prominent high-rise research facility on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, best known for housing the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and for its distinctive, minimalist modernist architecture.
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A.
Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities
The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities is a research center at Harvard University dedicated to advancing sustainable, energy-efficient building design and urban development through interdisciplinary research and innovation.
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B.
MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism
The MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism is a research hub at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology dedicated to innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to urban design, planning, and policy for contemporary cities.
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C.
U.S. Green Building Council
The U.S. Green Building Council is a nonprofit organization that promotes sustainability in building design, construction, and operation, best known for developing and overseeing the LEED green building certification system.
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D.
MIT Stata Center
MIT Stata Center is a strikingly unconventional academic complex at MIT designed by architect Frank Gehry, known for its deconstructivist architecture and housing research labs, classrooms, and offices.
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E.
MIT Media Lab complex
The MIT Media Lab complex is a cluster of innovative research and academic facilities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology dedicated to interdisciplinary work at the intersection of technology, media, design, and society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic building
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high-rise building ⓘ modernist building ⓘ research facility ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Building 54
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Green Building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Modernism
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minimalist architecture ⓘ |
| campus | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| campusArea |
MIT East Campus vicinity
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linked to:
MIT East Campus
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| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| function | headquarters of MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
elevator core serving research floors
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narrow rectangular floor plate ⓘ reinforced concrete structural frame ⓘ roof used for atmospheric and weather-related instruments ⓘ |
| height | approximately 295 feet ⓘ |
| houses | MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus ⓘ
linked to:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| notableFor |
being one of the tallest buildings on the MIT campus
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distinctive slender high-rise profile ⓘ minimalist façade ⓘ |
| numberOfFloors | about 21 ⓘ |
| owner | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| partOf | MIT campus skyline ⓘ |
| primaryDiscipline |
Earth sciences
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atmospheric sciences ⓘ planetary sciences ⓘ |
| significance |
landmark of MIT campus
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major center for atmospheric and climate research at MIT ⓘ |
| use |
classrooms
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laboratories ⓘ offices ⓘ research ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: MIT Green Building Description of subject: The MIT Green Building is a prominent high-rise research facility on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, best known for housing the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and for its distinctive, minimalist modernist architecture.
Referenced by (5)
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