Harvard-Yenching Library
E13145
The Harvard-Yenching Library is Harvard University's primary research library for East Asian studies, renowned for its extensive collections of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other East Asian materials.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Harvard-Yenching Library canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5403 — 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: Harvard-Yenching Library Context triple: [Harvard Library, hasPart, Harvard-Yenching Library]
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A.
Houghton Library
Houghton Library is Harvard University's principal rare books and manuscripts library, renowned for its extensive collections of literary, historical, and cultural materials.
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B.
Harvard Library
Harvard Library is the extensive academic library system of Harvard University, recognized as one of the largest and most comprehensive research library networks in the world.
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C.
Harvard Law School Library
Harvard Law School Library is the law library of Harvard Law School and one of the largest and most comprehensive academic law libraries in the world.
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D.
Hayden Library
Hayden Library is the main humanities and science library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, serving as a central hub for research and study on campus.
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E.
Widener Library
Widener Library is Harvard University's principal humanities and social sciences library and one of the largest university libraries in the world.
- 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: Harvard-Yenching Library Target entity description: The Harvard-Yenching Library is Harvard University's primary research library for East Asian studies, renowned for its extensive collections of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other East Asian materials.
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A.
Houghton Library
Houghton Library is Harvard University's principal rare books and manuscripts library, renowned for its extensive collections of literary, historical, and cultural materials.
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B.
Harvard Library
Harvard Library is the extensive academic library system of Harvard University, recognized as one of the largest and most comprehensive research library networks in the world.
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C.
Harvard Law School Library
Harvard Law School Library is the law library of Harvard Law School and one of the largest and most comprehensive academic law libraries in the world.
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D.
Hayden Library
Hayden Library is the main humanities and science library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, serving as a central hub for research and study on campus.
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E.
Widener Library
Widener Library is Harvard University's principal humanities and social sciences library and one of the largest university libraries in the world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
East Asian studies library
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academic library ⓘ research library ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
East Asian studies
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Japanology ⓘ Korean studies ⓘ Sinology ⓘ |
| affiliation | Harvard University ⓘ |
| collectionFocus |
Chinese studies
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East Asian humanities ⓘ East Asian social sciences ⓘ Japanese studies ⓘ Korean studies ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| hasCollectionType |
archives
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digital resources ⓘ manuscripts ⓘ microforms ⓘ periodicals ⓘ rare books ⓘ reference works ⓘ |
| languageOfMaterials |
Chinese
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English ⓘ Japanese ⓘ Korean ⓘ other East Asian languages ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Harvard University ⓘ Massachusetts ⓘ New England ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Chinese-language holdings
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Japanese-language holdings ⓘ Korean-language holdings ⓘ extensive East Asian language collections ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Harvard Library ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Harvard University ⓘ |
| partOf |
Harvard Library
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surface form:
Harvard Library system
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| primaryResearchLibraryFor | East Asian studies at Harvard University ⓘ |
| serves |
Harvard faculty
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Harvard students ⓘ visiting scholars ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
East Asian art and culture
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history of East Asia ⓘ literature of East Asia ⓘ philosophy of East Asia ⓘ religions of East Asia ⓘ |
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: Harvard-Yenching Library Description of subject: The Harvard-Yenching Library is Harvard University's primary research library for East Asian studies, renowned for its extensive collections of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other East Asian materials.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.