Geisel Library at UC San Diego
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Geisel Library at UC San Diego is a landmark university library renowned for its striking, futuristic concrete-and-glass design that has become an iconic symbol of the campus.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Geisel Library | 1 |
| Geisel Library at UC San Diego canonical | 1 |
| Geisel Library at the University of California, San Diego | 1 |
| Geisel Library, UC San Diego | 1 |
| UC San Diego Library | 1 |
| UC San Diego Library system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1113480 — 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: Geisel Library at UC San Diego Context triple: [Brutalism, hasNotableExample, Geisel Library at UC San Diego]
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A.
Moffitt Library
Moffitt Library is a central undergraduate-focused library at the University of California, Berkeley, offering study spaces, research resources, and student services.
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B.
Stanford Auxiliary Library
The Stanford Auxiliary Library is an off-campus high-density storage facility that houses and preserves lesser-used materials from the Stanford University Libraries system.
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C.
Stauffer Library
Stauffer Library is the main research and academic library at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, serving as a central hub for student study, resources, and scholarly work.
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D.
Robbins Library
Robbins Library is a historic public library and cultural landmark serving the community of Arlington, Massachusetts.
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E.
Robinson Library
Robinson Library is a major academic library at Newcastle University, providing extensive scholarly resources and study facilities for students and researchers.
- 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: Geisel Library at UC San Diego Target entity description: Geisel Library at UC San Diego is a landmark university library renowned for its striking, futuristic concrete-and-glass design that has become an iconic symbol of the campus.
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A.
Moffitt Library
Moffitt Library is a central undergraduate-focused library at the University of California, Berkeley, offering study spaces, research resources, and student services.
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B.
Stanford Auxiliary Library
The Stanford Auxiliary Library is an off-campus high-density storage facility that houses and preserves lesser-used materials from the Stanford University Libraries system.
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C.
Stauffer Library
Stauffer Library is the main research and academic library at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, serving as a central hub for student study, resources, and scholarly work.
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D.
Robbins Library
Robbins Library is a historic public library and cultural landmark serving the community of Arlington, Massachusetts.
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E.
Robinson Library
Robinson Library is a major academic library at Newcastle University, providing extensive scholarly resources and study facilities for students and researchers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic library
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landmark building ⓘ university library ⓘ |
| architect |
William Pereira
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surface form:
William L. Pereira
|
| architecturalStyle |
Brutalism
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surface form:
Brutalist architecture
Futurist architecture ⓘ |
| campus |
University of California, San Diego
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surface form:
UC San Diego main campus
|
| category |
Brutalist architecture in California
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Libraries in San Diego County, California ⓘ University and college libraries in the United States ⓘ |
| collectionType |
general collections
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research collections ⓘ special collections ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 1968 ⓘ |
| coordinates | 32.881°N 117.237°W ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| floorsAboveGround | 8 ⓘ |
| floorsBelowGround | 2 ⓘ |
| formerName | Central Library ⓘ |
| function | main library of UC San Diego ⓘ |
| hasCollection | Dr. Seuss Collection ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
central tower
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computer labs ⓘ large reading rooms ⓘ panoramic views of campus ⓘ special collections and archives areas ⓘ study spaces ⓘ surrounding terraces ⓘ |
| height | approximately 110 feet ⓘ |
| locatedIn | University of California, San Diego ⓘ |
| locatedInCity |
La Jolla, California, United States
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surface form:
La Jolla, California
|
| locatedInRegion |
San Diego, California, United States
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surface form:
San Diego, California
|
| materialUsed |
glass
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reinforced concrete ⓘ |
| name | Geisel Library ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Audrey Geisel
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Dr. Seuss ⓘ
surface form:
Theodor Seuss Geisel
|
| notableFor |
cantilevered upper floors
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concrete-and-glass structure ⓘ futuristic design ⓘ iconic silhouette ⓘ |
| opened | 1970 ⓘ |
| operator |
Geisel Library at UC San Diego
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
UC San Diego Library
|
| owner |
University of California Board of Regents
ⓘ
surface form:
The Regents of the University of California
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| partOf |
Geisel Library at UC San Diego
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
UC San Diego Library system
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| serves |
UC San Diego faculty
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UC San Diego staff ⓘ UC San Diego students ⓘ researchers ⓘ |
| symbolOf |
UC San Diego campus
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University of California, San Diego ⓘ
surface form:
UC San Diego identity
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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: Geisel Library at UC San Diego Description of subject: Geisel Library at UC San Diego is a landmark university library renowned for its striking, futuristic concrete-and-glass design that has become an iconic symbol of the campus.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Geisel Library
this entity surface form:
Geisel Library at the University of California, San Diego
this entity surface form:
Geisel Library, UC San Diego
Geisel Library at UC San Diego
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operator
→
Geisel Library at UC San Diego
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
Geisel Library
this entity surface form:
UC San Diego Library
subject surface form:
Geisel Library
this entity surface form:
UC San Diego Library system