Old Main
E104538
Old Main is a historic central campus building at North Central College, often recognized as one of the institution’s most iconic landmarks.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old Main canonical | 1 |
| Old Main (Bethany College) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T883551 — 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: Old Main Context triple: [North Central College, hasBuilding, Old Main]
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A.
Sibley Hall
Sibley Hall is a historic academic building on Cornell University’s Arts Quad, known for housing the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.
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B.
Phelps Hall
Phelps Hall is a collegiate Gothic-style building at Yale University, known for its distinctive tower and role as a residence and academic space on the Old Campus.
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C.
Durfee Hall
Durfee Hall is a historic residential dormitory located on Yale University's Old Campus in New Haven, Connecticut.
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D.
Sproul Hall
Sproul Hall is a prominent administrative building and historic focal point for student activism on the University of California, Berkeley campus.
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E.
Duke Chapel
Duke Chapel is a prominent neo-Gothic church and iconic landmark at the heart of Duke University’s campus in Durham, North Carolina.
- 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: Old Main Target entity description: Old Main is a historic central campus building at North Central College, often recognized as one of the institution’s most iconic landmarks.
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A.
Sibley Hall
Sibley Hall is a historic academic building on Cornell University’s Arts Quad, known for housing the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.
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B.
Phelps Hall
Phelps Hall is a collegiate Gothic-style building at Yale University, known for its distinctive tower and role as a residence and academic space on the Old Campus.
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C.
Durfee Hall
Durfee Hall is a historic residential dormitory located on Yale University's Old Campus in New Haven, Connecticut.
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D.
Sproul Hall
Sproul Hall is a prominent administrative building and historic focal point for student activism on the University of California, Berkeley campus.
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E.
Duke Chapel
Duke Chapel is a prominent neo-Gothic church and iconic landmark at the heart of Duke University’s campus in Durham, North Carolina.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
campus landmark
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historic academic building ⓘ |
| affiliation | North Central College ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Collegiate architecture ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
alumni of North Central College
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faculty of North Central College ⓘ students of North Central College ⓘ |
| campusPosition | central campus location ⓘ |
| category |
Landmarks in Naperville, Illinois
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University and college buildings in Illinois ⓘ |
| city | Naperville, Illinois ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasRole | symbol of North Central College ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic building ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Naperville, Illinois
ⓘ
North Central College ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| notableFor |
historic architecture
ⓘ
status as one of the college’s most recognizable buildings ⓘ |
| operator | North Central College ⓘ |
| ownedBy | North Central College ⓘ |
| partOf |
North Central College
ⓘ
surface form:
North Central College campus
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| significance |
central campus building
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iconic landmark of North Central College ⓘ |
| usedFor |
academic purposes
ⓘ
administrative 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: Old Main Description of subject: Old Main is a historic central campus building at North Central College, often recognized as one of the institution’s most iconic landmarks.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bethany, West Virginia
this entity surface form:
Old Main (Bethany College)