Silver family (NYU donors)
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The Silver family (NYU donors) is a philanthropic family known for their significant financial contributions to New York University, including endowing the naming of its Main Building.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Silver family (NYU donors) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2540105 — 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: Silver family (NYU donors) Context triple: [New York University Main Building, hasNameAfter, Silver family (NYU donors)]
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A.
Riker family of New York
The Riker family of New York is a prominent early colonial lineage descended from Dutch settler Abraham Rycken, historically associated with landholdings and influence in the New York area.
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B.
Leventhal family
The Leventhal family is a prominent philanthropic family known for significant contributions to education, urbanism, and civic institutions.
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C.
Astor family
The Astor family is a prominent Anglo-American dynasty that rose to great wealth and influence through real estate, finance, and philanthropy from the 18th century onward.
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D.
The Pritzker Family
The Pritzker family is a prominent American family best known for its leadership of the Hyatt hotel empire and its extensive philanthropic and cultural contributions.
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E.
Guggenheim family
The Guggenheim family is a prominent American family known for its vast mining and industrial fortune and its extensive philanthropic support of the arts, education, and scientific research.
- 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: Silver family (NYU donors) Target entity description: The Silver family (NYU donors) is a philanthropic family known for their significant financial contributions to New York University, including endowing the naming of its Main Building.
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A.
Riker family of New York
The Riker family of New York is a prominent early colonial lineage descended from Dutch settler Abraham Rycken, historically associated with landholdings and influence in the New York area.
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B.
Leventhal family
The Leventhal family is a prominent philanthropic family known for significant contributions to education, urbanism, and civic institutions.
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C.
Astor family
The Astor family is a prominent Anglo-American dynasty that rose to great wealth and influence through real estate, finance, and philanthropy from the 18th century onward.
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D.
The Pritzker Family
The Pritzker family is a prominent American family best known for its leadership of the Hyatt hotel empire and its extensive philanthropic and cultural contributions.
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E.
Guggenheim family
The Guggenheim family is a prominent American family known for its vast mining and industrial fortune and its extensive philanthropic support of the arts, education, and scientific research.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NYU donor
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philanthropic family ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith | New York University ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| donatedTo |
New York University Main Building (now Silver Center)
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surface form:
NYU Main Building
New York University ⓘ |
| endowed | naming of NYU Main Building ⓘ |
| fieldOfActivity | higher education philanthropy ⓘ |
| hasNotableAct | endowment leading to NYU Main Building bearing the Silver name ⓘ |
| knownFor |
major financial contributions to NYU
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philanthropic giving to New York University ⓘ |
| mainPlaceOfActivity | New York City ⓘ |
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: Silver family (NYU donors) Description of subject: The Silver family (NYU donors) is a philanthropic family known for their significant financial contributions to New York University, including endowing the naming of its Main Building.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
New York University Main Building