Fisk Hall, Northwestern University
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Fisk Hall at Northwestern University is a historic academic building on the Evanston campus, designed in the late 19th century by prominent architect Henry Ives Cobb.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fisk Hall, Northwestern University canonical | 2 |
| Northwestern University campus buildings | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6622698 — 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: Fisk Hall, Northwestern University Context triple: [Henry Ives Cobb, notableWork, Fisk Hall, Northwestern University]
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A.
William L. Harkness Hall
William L. Harkness Hall is an academic building at Yale University, known for housing classrooms and lecture halls for the humanities and social sciences.
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B.
Assembly Hall at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Assembly Hall at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a landmark multi-purpose arena on the university’s campus, renowned for its distinctive dome design and use as a venue for basketball games, concerts, and major events.
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C.
Wasserstein Hall
Wasserstein Hall is a major academic and administrative complex at Harvard Law School that houses classrooms, offices, and student spaces.
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D.
Dewey Hall
Dewey Hall is an academic and administrative building located on the University of Rochester’s River Campus.
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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: Fisk Hall, Northwestern University Target entity description: Fisk Hall at Northwestern University is a historic academic building on the Evanston campus, designed in the late 19th century by prominent architect Henry Ives Cobb.
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A.
William L. Harkness Hall
William L. Harkness Hall is an academic building at Yale University, known for housing classrooms and lecture halls for the humanities and social sciences.
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B.
Assembly Hall at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Assembly Hall at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a landmark multi-purpose arena on the university’s campus, renowned for its distinctive dome design and use as a venue for basketball games, concerts, and major events.
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C.
Wasserstein Hall
Wasserstein Hall is a major academic and administrative complex at Harvard Law School that houses classrooms, offices, and student spaces.
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D.
Dewey Hall
Dewey Hall is an academic and administrative building located on the University of Rochester’s River Campus.
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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 (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic building
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campus building ⓘ university building ⓘ |
| architect | Henry Ives Cobb ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Romanesque Revival
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linked to:
Neo-Romanesque
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| campusArea | north campus of Northwestern University Evanston ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| designedIn | late 19th century ⓘ |
| era | late 19th century ⓘ |
| floorCount | 3 ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Henry Ives Cobb buildings
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Northwestern University buildings ⓘ University and college academic buildings in the United States ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
arched windows
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ornamental stonework ⓘ tower element ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
home to School of Communication programs
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home to journalism and media-related programs ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | contributing property to a historic district ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Evanston, Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedOnCampusOf | Northwestern University ⓘ |
| material |
limestone
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stone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Clinton B. Fisk ⓘ |
| partOf |
Northwestern University Evanston campus
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linked to:
Northwestern University
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| use |
academic instruction
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classrooms ⓘ faculty offices ⓘ |
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: Fisk Hall, Northwestern University Description of subject: Fisk Hall at Northwestern University is a historic academic building on the Evanston campus, designed in the late 19th century by prominent architect Henry Ives Cobb.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Northwestern University library expansion (Deering addition / Main Library)
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category
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Northwestern University campus buildings
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linked to: Fisk Hall, Northwestern University