Schlesinger Library
E14191
Schlesinger Library is a major research library at Harvard University specializing in the history of women, gender, and feminism, particularly in the United States.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Schlesinger Library canonical | 3 |
| Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5406 — 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: Schlesinger Library Context triple: [Harvard Library, hasPart, Schlesinger 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-Yenching Library
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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C.
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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D.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the national library of the United States and one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive research libraries, serving as the research arm of the U.S. Congress.
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E.
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.
- 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: Schlesinger Library Target entity description: Schlesinger Library is a major research library at Harvard University specializing in the history of women, gender, and feminism, particularly in the United States.
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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-Yenching Library
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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C.
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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D.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the national library of the United States and one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive research libraries, serving as the research arm of the U.S. Congress.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic library
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research library ⓘ special collections library ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Harvard University
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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study ⓘ |
| collectionType |
audio-visual materials
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books ⓘ cookbooks ⓘ culinary collections ⓘ ephemera ⓘ manuscripts ⓘ oral histories ⓘ organizational records ⓘ periodicals ⓘ personal papers ⓘ photographs ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| establishedBy |
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
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surface form:
Radcliffe College
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| focusArea |
domestic life and family history
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feminist movements in the United States ⓘ women and education ⓘ women and health ⓘ women and work ⓘ women, gender, and sexuality ⓘ women’s political activism ⓘ women’s rights ⓘ |
| hasArchives | yes ⓘ |
| hasReadingRoom | yes ⓘ |
| languageOfMaterials | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Harvard University ⓘ Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| name | Schlesinger Library self-link ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.
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Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger ⓘ |
| officialName |
Schlesinger Library
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
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| parentOrganization |
Harvard University
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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study ⓘ |
| partOf |
Harvard Library
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surface form:
Harvard Library system
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| servesCommunity |
faculty
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general public ⓘ independent scholars ⓘ students ⓘ |
| specialization |
U.S. women’s history
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feminism ⓘ gender history ⓘ history of women ⓘ |
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: Schlesinger Library Description of subject: Schlesinger Library is a major research library at Harvard University specializing in the history of women, gender, and feminism, particularly in the United States.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America