McCone Hall (UC Berkeley)
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McCone Hall is an academic building on the University of California, Berkeley campus that houses key science departments and facilities, including Earth and planetary sciences.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| McCone Hall (UC Berkeley) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2593010 — 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: McCone Hall (UC Berkeley) Context triple: [Department of Earth and Planetary Science (UC Berkeley), locatedInBuilding, McCone Hall (UC Berkeley)]
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A.
Wheeler Hall (UC Berkeley)
Wheeler Hall (UC Berkeley) is a prominent academic building on the University of California, Berkeley campus, best known as a central hub for the English department and large lecture courses.
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B.
Etcheverry Hall, UC Berkeley
Etcheverry Hall at UC Berkeley is an engineering building that houses major instructional and research facilities, particularly for mechanical engineering and related disciplines.
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C.
South Hall (UC Berkeley)
South Hall (UC Berkeley) is the oldest surviving building on the University of California, Berkeley campus, notable for its historic Victorian architecture and role in the university’s early academic life.
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D.
Gilman Hall (UC Berkeley)
Gilman Hall (UC Berkeley) is a historic chemistry building on the University of California, Berkeley campus, notable for its role in early nuclear research and its designation as a National Historic Landmark.
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E.
California Hall (UC Berkeley)
California Hall is a historic Beaux-Arts academic building on the University of California, Berkeley campus and one of its central administrative landmarks.
- 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: McCone Hall (UC Berkeley) Target entity description: McCone Hall is an academic building on the University of California, Berkeley campus that houses key science departments and facilities, including Earth and planetary sciences.
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A.
Wheeler Hall (UC Berkeley)
Wheeler Hall (UC Berkeley) is a prominent academic building on the University of California, Berkeley campus, best known as a central hub for the English department and large lecture courses.
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B.
Etcheverry Hall, UC Berkeley
Etcheverry Hall at UC Berkeley is an engineering building that houses major instructional and research facilities, particularly for mechanical engineering and related disciplines.
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C.
South Hall (UC Berkeley)
South Hall (UC Berkeley) is the oldest surviving building on the University of California, Berkeley campus, notable for its historic Victorian architecture and role in the university’s early academic life.
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D.
Gilman Hall (UC Berkeley)
Gilman Hall (UC Berkeley) is a historic chemistry building on the University of California, Berkeley campus, notable for its role in early nuclear research and its designation as a National Historic Landmark.
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E.
California Hall (UC Berkeley)
California Hall is a historic Beaux-Arts academic building on the University of California, Berkeley campus and one of its central administrative landmarks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic building
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university building ⓘ |
| affiliation | University of California system ⓘ |
| architecturalType | modernist building ⓘ |
| campus | UC Berkeley campus ⓘ |
| campusArea | central campus area of UC Berkeley ⓘ |
| category |
Academic buildings in California
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Buildings and structures of the University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| discipline |
Earth sciences
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geology ⓘ geophysics ⓘ planetary science ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
administrative offices
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classrooms ⓘ faculty offices ⓘ lecture halls ⓘ research laboratories ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
office space
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research ⓘ teaching ⓘ |
| hasName | McCone Hall ⓘ |
| houses |
Department of Earth and Planetary Science (UC Berkeley)
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Earth and planetary sciences facilities ⓘ geophysics research facilities ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Berkeley
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surface form:
Berkeley, California
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| namedAfter | John A. McCone ⓘ |
| nearby |
Sather Tower
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surface form:
Campanile (Sather Tower)
Campbell Hall ⓘ Evans Hall ⓘ LeConte Hall ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
University of California Board of Regents
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surface form:
The Regents of the University of California
|
| partOf | College of Letters and Science (UC Berkeley) ⓘ |
| shortName | McCone ⓘ |
| usedBy |
faculty
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graduate students ⓘ undergraduate students ⓘ |
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: McCone Hall (UC Berkeley) Description of subject: McCone Hall is an academic building on the University of California, Berkeley campus that houses key science departments and facilities, including Earth and planetary sciences.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Department of Earth and Planetary Science (UC Berkeley)
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locatedInBuilding
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McCone Hall (UC Berkeley)
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