Tanner Fountain, Harvard University
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Tanner Fountain at Harvard University is a prominent campus landmark and water feature known for its circular design and misting jets that create a fog-like atmosphere.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tanner Fountain redesign, Harvard University | 1 |
| Tanner Fountain, Harvard University canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9253704 — 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: Tanner Fountain, Harvard University Context triple: [Peter Walker, notableWork, Tanner Fountain, Harvard University]
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A.
John Harvard statue
The John Harvard statue is a famous bronze monument in Harvard Yard that has become an iconic symbol of Harvard University and a popular tourist attraction.
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B.
Harvard Medical School Quad
Harvard Medical School Quad is the central green courtyard and focal gathering space of Harvard Medical School’s campus in Boston’s Longwood Medical Area.
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C.
Sever Hall, Harvard University
Sever Hall, Harvard University is a landmark Romanesque brick classroom building in Harvard Yard designed by prominent architect Henry Hobson Richardson.
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D.
Harvard Center
Harvard Center is the historic village center and main civic hub of the town of Harvard, Massachusetts, featuring town offices, churches, and traditional New England architecture.
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E.
Yale University’s Memorial Rotunda
Yale University’s Memorial Rotunda is a commemorative structure on campus that serves as a solemn space honoring the university’s war dead and other fallen members of the Yale community.
- 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: Tanner Fountain, Harvard University Target entity description: Tanner Fountain at Harvard University is a prominent campus landmark and water feature known for its circular design and misting jets that create a fog-like atmosphere.
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A.
John Harvard statue
The John Harvard statue is a famous bronze monument in Harvard Yard that has become an iconic symbol of Harvard University and a popular tourist attraction.
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B.
Harvard Medical School Quad
Harvard Medical School Quad is the central green courtyard and focal gathering space of Harvard Medical School’s campus in Boston’s Longwood Medical Area.
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C.
Sever Hall, Harvard University
Sever Hall, Harvard University is a landmark Romanesque brick classroom building in Harvard Yard designed by prominent architect Henry Hobson Richardson.
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D.
Harvard Center
Harvard Center is the historic village center and main civic hub of the town of Harvard, Massachusetts, featuring town offices, churches, and traditional New England architecture.
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E.
Yale University’s Memorial Rotunda
Yale University’s Memorial Rotunda is a commemorative structure on campus that serves as a solemn space honoring the university’s war dead and other fallen members of the Yale community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
campus landmark
ⓘ
fountain ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasAtmosphere | fog-like environment ⓘ |
| hasDesign | circular design ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
fog-like atmosphere
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misting jets ⓘ water feature ⓘ |
| hasMedium | water mist ⓘ |
| hasShape | circle ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Harvard University campus
ⓘ
linked to:
Cambridge campus of Harvard University
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| locatedIn |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
ⓘ
Harvard University ⓘ |
| usedAs |
gathering place for students
ⓘ
recreational space ⓘ |
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: Tanner Fountain, Harvard University Description of subject: Tanner Fountain at Harvard University is a prominent campus landmark and water feature known for its circular design and misting jets that create a fog-like atmosphere.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tanner Fountain, Harvard University