Custom House District
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The Custom House District is a historic area in downtown Boston known for its concentration of 19th- and early 20th-century commercial buildings and its role in the city’s maritime and financial history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Custom House District canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12922338 — 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: Custom House District Context triple: [Custom House Tower, partOf, Custom House District]
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A.
District 6
District 6 is a regional division of the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining the state highway system in its assigned area of California.
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B.
District 3
District 3 is a central urban district of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, known for its historic architecture, tree-lined streets, and mix of residential, commercial, and cultural landmarks.
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C.
District 3
District 3 is a regional division of the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining state highways and transportation infrastructure in its designated area.
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D.
District 3
District 3 is one of the electoral districts represented on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in Arizona.
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E.
District 1
District 1 is one of the supervisorial districts represented on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in Arizona.
- 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: Custom House District Target entity description: The Custom House District is a historic area in downtown Boston known for its concentration of 19th- and early 20th-century commercial buildings and its role in the city’s maritime and financial history.
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A.
District 6
District 6 is a regional division of the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining the state highway system in its assigned area of California.
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B.
District 3
District 3 is a central urban district of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, known for its historic architecture, tree-lined streets, and mix of residential, commercial, and cultural landmarks.
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C.
District 3
District 3 is a regional division of the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining state highways and transportation infrastructure in its designated area.
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D.
District 3
District 3 is one of the electoral districts represented on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in Arizona.
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E.
District 1
District 1 is a regional Caltrans division responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining segments of California’s state highway system within its designated northern coastal territory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial district
ⓘ
historic district ⓘ |
| category |
Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
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Historic districts in Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| city |
Boston, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston
|
| containsBuilding |
Boston Custom House
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Custom House Tower NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| eraOfSignificance |
19th century
ⓘ
early 20th century ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalStyle |
19th-century commercial architecture
ⓘ
early 20th-century commercial architecture ⓘ |
| hasHeritageDesignation | National Register of Historic Places NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalFunction |
financial services center
ⓘ
maritime trade center ⓘ |
| knownFor |
19th-century commercial buildings
ⓘ
early 20th-century commercial buildings ⓘ financial history of Boston ⓘ maritime history of Boston ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Boston, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston
Massachusetts ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
downtown Boston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Boston Harbor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Waterfront ⓘ |
| partOf | Boston central business district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUse | commercial ⓘ |
| state | Massachusetts ⓘ |
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: Custom House District Description of subject: The Custom House District is a historic area in downtown Boston known for its concentration of 19th- and early 20th-century commercial buildings and its role in the city’s maritime and financial history.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.