Boston University School of Law tower
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The Boston University School of Law tower is a prominent Brutalist high-rise academic building on Boston University's Charles River Campus, known for its striking concrete design and role as a landmark of modernist architecture.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Boston University School of Law complex | 1 |
| Boston University School of Law tower canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7403213 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Boston University School of Law tower Context triple: [Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles, notableWork, Boston University School of Law tower]
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A.
Yale Law School building
The Yale Law School building is the historic, Collegiate Gothic complex in New Haven that houses Yale University's prestigious law school, including its classrooms, library, and faculty offices.
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Northeastern University School of Law buildings
Northeastern University School of Law buildings are the dedicated academic, administrative, and student facilities that house Northeastern University's law programs on its Boston campus.
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Columbia University School of Law building
The Columbia University School of Law building is a modern academic facility in New York City designed by architect Romaldo Giurgola to house Columbia Law School’s classrooms, offices, and legal research spaces.
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D.
Harvard Medical School Quad
Harvard Medical School Quad is the central green courtyard and focal gathering space of Harvard Medical School’s campus in Boston’s Longwood Medical Area.
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E.
MIT Building 20
MIT Building 20 was a famously makeshift World War II–era wooden structure at MIT that became an incubator for groundbreaking research and innovation across multiple disciplines.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Boston University School of Law tower Target entity description: The Boston University School of Law tower is a prominent Brutalist high-rise academic building on Boston University's Charles River Campus, known for its striking concrete design and role as a landmark of modernist architecture.
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A.
Yale Law School building
The Yale Law School building is the historic, Collegiate Gothic complex in New Haven that houses Yale University's prestigious law school, including its classrooms, library, and faculty offices.
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B.
Northeastern University School of Law buildings
Northeastern University School of Law buildings are the dedicated academic, administrative, and student facilities that house Northeastern University's law programs on its Boston campus.
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C.
Columbia University School of Law building
The Columbia University School of Law building is a modern academic facility in New York City designed by architect Romaldo Giurgola to house Columbia Law School’s classrooms, offices, and legal research spaces.
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D.
Harvard Medical School Quad
Harvard Medical School Quad is the central green courtyard and focal gathering space of Harvard Medical School’s campus in Boston’s Longwood Medical Area.
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E.
MIT Building 20
MIT Building 20 was a famously makeshift World War II–era wooden structure at MIT that became an incubator for groundbreaking research and innovation across multiple disciplines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brutalist architecture
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academic building ⓘ high-rise building ⓘ landmark ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Brutalism ⓘ |
| category |
Boston University buildings
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Brutalist architecture in Massachusetts ⓘ university and college buildings in Boston ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| function |
classroom building
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legal education facility ⓘ office building ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
elevated position on Charles River Campus
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exposed concrete facades ⓘ narrow window bands ⓘ vertical tower massing ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Boston University School of Law complex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Boston, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Boston
Boston University Charles River Campus NERFINISHED ⓘ Massachusetts ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| material |
glass
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reinforced concrete ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Brutalist high-rise form
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modernist architectural significance ⓘ role as campus landmark ⓘ striking concrete design ⓘ |
| partOf | Boston University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy | Boston University School of Law NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Boston University School of Law tower Description of subject: The Boston University School of Law tower is a prominent Brutalist high-rise academic building on Boston University's Charles River Campus, known for its striking concrete design and role as a landmark of modernist architecture.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.