Infinite Corridor
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Infinite Corridor is a long, central hallway at MIT that serves as a primary thoroughfare connecting many of the institute’s main buildings and is famous for events like the twice-yearly "MIThenge" alignment of the sun.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Infinite Corridor canonical | 6 |
| Infinite Corridor zone | 1 |
| MIT Infinite Corridor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1812741 — 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: Infinite Corridor Context triple: [MIT Cambridge campus, hasBuilding, Infinite Corridor]
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A.
Bates Hall Reading Room
Bates Hall Reading Room is the grand, barrel-vaulted main reading room of the Boston Public Library’s Copley Square branch, renowned for its long rows of green-shaded lamps and classical architectural design.
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B.
Aldrich Hall
Aldrich Hall is a primary classroom and academic building at Harvard Business School, known for hosting many of the school’s MBA courses and case-method discussions.
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C.
Mapo Hall
Mapo Hall is a historic colonial-era city hall and iconic civic center located on Mapo Hill in Ibadan, Nigeria.
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D.
McGonigle Hall
McGonigle Hall is an on-campus athletic facility at Temple University in Philadelphia that has hosted basketball games and other university sporting and community events.
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E.
Zankel Hall
Zankel Hall is a modern, mid-sized performance venue within New York City's Carnegie Hall complex, known for its flexible space and diverse programming.
- 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: Infinite Corridor Target entity description: Infinite Corridor is a long, central hallway at MIT that serves as a primary thoroughfare connecting many of the institute’s main buildings and is famous for events like the twice-yearly "MIThenge" alignment of the sun.
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A.
Bates Hall Reading Room
Bates Hall Reading Room is the grand, barrel-vaulted main reading room of the Boston Public Library’s Copley Square branch, renowned for its long rows of green-shaded lamps and classical architectural design.
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B.
Aldrich Hall
Aldrich Hall is a primary classroom and academic building at Harvard Business School, known for hosting many of the school’s MBA courses and case-method discussions.
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C.
Mapo Hall
Mapo Hall is a historic colonial-era city hall and iconic civic center located on Mapo Hill in Ibadan, Nigeria.
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D.
McGonigle Hall
McGonigle Hall is an on-campus athletic facility at Temple University in Philadelphia that has hosted basketball games and other university sporting and community events.
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E.
Zankel Hall
Zankel Hall is a modern, mid-sized performance venue within New York City's Carnegie Hall complex, known for its flexible space and diverse programming.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architectural feature
ⓘ
hallway ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| access | publicly accessible during normal campus hours ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Beaux-Arts influenced institutional architecture ⓘ |
| associatedWith | MIT campus culture ⓘ |
| category |
Corridors and hallways
ⓘ
MIT Cambridge campus ⓘ
surface form:
MIT campus
|
| connects |
MIT Building 10
ⓘ
MIT Building 2 ⓘ MIT Building 3 ⓘ MIT Building 4 ⓘ MIT Building 7 ⓘ MIT Building 8 ⓘ |
| constructionStart | early 20th century ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
iconic image in MIT publications
ⓘ
symbol of MIT student life ⓘ |
| eventFrequency | MIThenge occurs approximately twice a year ⓘ |
| floorCount | primarily first-floor corridor ⓘ |
| function |
central circulation spine of MIT campus
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primary pedestrian thoroughfare ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
arched windows at some sections
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fluorescent lighting ⓘ linoleum or tile flooring ⓘ |
| hasNickname | the Infinite ⓘ |
| lengthApproximate |
about 251 meters
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about 825 feet ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | MIT Facilities ⓘ |
| MIThengeAlsoKnownAs |
MIT Building 8
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surface form:
MIT-henge
|
| MIThengePhenomenon | sunset alignment with corridor ⓘ |
| MIThengeSeason |
around January
ⓘ
around November ⓘ |
| MIThengeType | solar alignment event ⓘ |
| notableFor |
MIThenge
ⓘ
posters and announcements on walls ⓘ student events ⓘ |
| orientation | east–west ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| partOf | MIT main campus ⓘ |
| safetyUse | emergency egress route ⓘ |
| usedFor |
career fairs
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class changes ⓘ information displays ⓘ student demonstrations ⓘ |
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: Infinite Corridor Description of subject: Infinite Corridor is a long, central hallway at MIT that serves as a primary thoroughfare connecting many of the institute’s main buildings and is famous for events like the twice-yearly "MIThenge" alignment of the sun.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
MIT Infinite Corridor
this entity surface form:
Infinite Corridor zone