McGraw Tower
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McGraw Tower is the iconic clock and chimes tower on Cornell University's campus, known for its daily chimes concerts and prominent presence in the university skyline.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McGraw Tower canonical | 5 |
| Cornell Clocktower | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1923207 — 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: McGraw Tower Context triple: [Uris Library, hasPart, McGraw Tower]
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A.
McGraw Hall
McGraw Hall is one of Cornell University's historic academic buildings, prominently located on the Arts Quad and housing various humanities and social science departments.
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B.
Cathedral of Learning
The Cathedral of Learning is a 42-story Gothic Revival skyscraper on the University of Pittsburgh campus, renowned as one of the tallest educational buildings in the world.
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C.
McGraw Rotunda
McGraw Rotunda is an ornate, mural-lined ceremonial hall in the New York Public Library’s main Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, known for its grand Beaux-Arts architecture and historic artwork.
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D.
Tanenbaum Hall
Tanenbaum Hall is a primary academic and administrative building of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, housing classrooms, offices, and legal research facilities.
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E.
John A. Wilson Building
The John A. Wilson Building is a historic government office building in Washington, D.C., that houses the city’s primary municipal and legislative offices.
- 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: McGraw Tower Target entity description: McGraw Tower is the iconic clock and chimes tower on Cornell University's campus, known for its daily chimes concerts and prominent presence in the university skyline.
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A.
McGraw Hall
McGraw Hall is one of Cornell University's historic academic buildings, prominently located on the Arts Quad and housing various humanities and social science departments.
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B.
Cathedral of Learning
The Cathedral of Learning is a 42-story Gothic Revival skyscraper on the University of Pittsburgh campus, renowned as one of the tallest educational buildings in the world.
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C.
McGraw Rotunda
McGraw Rotunda is an ornate, mural-lined ceremonial hall in the New York Public Library’s main Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, known for its grand Beaux-Arts architecture and historic artwork.
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D.
Tanenbaum Hall
Tanenbaum Hall is a primary academic and administrative building of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, housing classrooms, offices, and legal research facilities.
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E.
John A. Wilson Building
The John A. Wilson Building is a historic government office building in Washington, D.C., that houses the city’s primary municipal and legislative offices.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bell tower
ⓘ
campus landmark ⓘ clock tower ⓘ |
| affiliation | Cornell University ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Collegiate Gothic ⓘ |
| campus |
Cornell University
ⓘ
surface form:
Cornell University main campus
|
| category |
Clock towers in the United States
ⓘ
Cornell University buildings ⓘ Towers in New York (state) ⓘ |
| contains | Cornell Chimes ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasChimesSchedule | daily chimes concerts ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | iconic landmark for Cornell students and alumni ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
chimes
ⓘ
clock face ⓘ observation level ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
chimes tower
ⓘ
clock tower ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfBells | 21 ⓘ |
| hasOperator |
Cornell Chimesmasters
ⓘ
surface form:
Cornell chimesmasters
|
| hasViewOf |
Cayuga Lake
ⓘ
Cornell University ⓘ
surface form:
Cornell University campus
Ithaca cityscape ⓘ |
| height | approximately 173 feet ⓘ |
| inception | late 19th century ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Cornell University Arts Quad
ⓘ
surface form:
Cornell University historic core
|
| locatedIn |
Cornell University
ⓘ
Ithaca, New York, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Ithaca, New York
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| material | stone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | John McGraw ⓘ |
| nearbyArea | Ho Plaza ⓘ |
| nearbyBuilding | Uris Library ⓘ |
| notableFor |
daily chimes concerts
ⓘ
prominent presence in Cornell University skyline ⓘ student chimesmasters tradition ⓘ |
| openToPublic | true ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Cornell University ⓘ |
| partOf | Cornell University Arts Quad ⓘ |
| symbolOf | Cornell University ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | true ⓘ |
| usedFor |
musical performances
ⓘ
timekeeping ⓘ |
| visibleFrom |
Cornell University
ⓘ
surface form:
Cornell University campus
|
How these facts were elicited
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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: McGraw Tower Description of subject: McGraw Tower is the iconic clock and chimes tower on Cornell University's campus, known for its daily chimes concerts and prominent presence in the university skyline.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cornell Clocktower