Building 54
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Building 54, better known as the Green Building, is a prominent MIT campus skyscraper that houses the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and is noted for its distinctive modernist design.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Building 54 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8486999 — 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: Building 54 Context triple: [Green Building, hasAlternativeName, Building 54]
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A.
Building 46
Building 46 is MIT’s neuroscience and cognitive science hub, housing the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and related research facilities.
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B.
Perelman Building
The Perelman Building is an annex of the Philadelphia Museum of Art known for its Art Deco architecture and galleries dedicated to modern and contemporary design, prints, drawings, and photography.
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C.
Hylan Building
The Hylan Building is an academic facility on the University of Rochester’s River Campus that primarily houses mathematics and computer science departments, classrooms, and offices.
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D.
Raymond Building
Raymond Building is a key academic and research facility located on McGill University's Macdonald Campus.
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E.
Westgate Apartments
Westgate Apartments is a graduate student housing complex located on MIT’s West Campus, providing apartment-style residences for students and their families.
- 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: Building 54 Target entity description: Building 54, better known as the Green Building, is a prominent MIT campus skyscraper that houses the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and is noted for its distinctive modernist design.
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A.
Building 46
Building 46 is MIT’s neuroscience and cognitive science hub, housing the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and related research facilities.
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B.
Perelman Building
The Perelman Building is an annex of the Philadelphia Museum of Art known for its Art Deco architecture and galleries dedicated to modern and contemporary design, prints, drawings, and photography.
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C.
Hylan Building
The Hylan Building is an academic facility on the University of Rochester’s River Campus that primarily houses mathematics and computer science departments, classrooms, and offices.
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D.
Raymond Building
Raymond Building is a key academic and research facility located on McGill University's Macdonald Campus.
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E.
Westgate Apartments
Westgate Apartments is a graduate student housing complex located on MIT’s West Campus, providing apartment-style residences for students and their families.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic building
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university building ⓘ |
| affiliation | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Green Building
ⓘ
MIT Green Building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Brutalist-influenced modernism
ⓘ
Modernist architecture ⓘ |
| campus |
MIT main campus
ⓘ
linked to:
MIT Cambridge campus
|
| category |
MIT campus buildings
ⓘ
skyscraper office buildings in Massachusetts ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dedicatedTo |
Earth sciences research
ⓘ
atmospheric sciences research ⓘ planetary sciences research ⓘ |
| function | headquarters of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
elevated prominence over surrounding low-rise buildings
ⓘ
rectangular tower form ⓘ regular grid of windows ⓘ roof used for atmospheric and weather instruments ⓘ |
| hasNicknameOrigin |
named "Green Building" after benefactor Cecil H. Green
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linked to:
Cecil and Ida Green Building
|
| houses | MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
ⓘ
Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus ⓘ
linked to:
MIT Cambridge campus
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| material |
glass
ⓘ
reinforced concrete ⓘ |
| notableFor |
distinctive modernist design
ⓘ
role as a campus landmark ⓘ tall, slender profile ⓘ visibility across the MIT campus ⓘ |
| operator | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| owner | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| partOf |
MIT School of Science facilities
ⓘ
linked to:
MIT School of Science
|
| primaryOccupant | Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences ⓘ |
| role |
iconic element of MIT skyline
ⓘ
wayfinding landmark on MIT campus ⓘ |
| use |
academic offices
ⓘ
classrooms ⓘ meteorological observation ⓘ research laboratories ⓘ |
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: Building 54 Description of subject: Building 54, better known as the Green Building, is a prominent MIT campus skyscraper that houses the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and is noted for its distinctive modernist design.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.