Box House
E1011970
Box House is an alternative name for the American Foursquare, a popular early-20th-century U.S. residential architectural style characterized by its simple boxy shape and efficient, spacious layout.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Box House canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12955686 — 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: Box House Context triple: [American Foursquare, hasAlternativeName, Box House]
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A.
Shell House
Shell House was the former Johannesburg headquarters of South Africa’s African National Congress, later renamed Luthuli House.
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B.
Pat House
Pat House is a technology executive best known as a co-founder of Siebel Systems, a pioneering customer relationship management (CRM) software company.
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C.
Stone House
Stone House is a notable late Gothic burgher house and historical monument in Kutná Hora, Czech Republic, known for its richly decorated stone façade and role in the town’s medieval heritage.
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D.
Stone House
Stone House is a historic residential structure that forms one of the principal architectural components of the early 19th-century country estate complex at Hyde Hall in New York.
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E.
Stone House
Stone House is a historic Civil War-era structure on the Manassas battlefield in Virginia that served as a field hospital during the First and Second Battles of Bull Run.
- 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: Box House Target entity description: Box House is an alternative name for the American Foursquare, a popular early-20th-century U.S. residential architectural style characterized by its simple boxy shape and efficient, spacious layout.
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A.
Shell House
Shell House was the former Johannesburg headquarters of South Africa’s African National Congress, later renamed Luthuli House.
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B.
Pat House
Pat House is a technology executive best known as a co-founder of Siebel Systems, a pioneering customer relationship management (CRM) software company.
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C.
Stone House
Stone House is a notable late Gothic burgher house and historical monument in Kutná Hora, Czech Republic, known for its richly decorated stone façade and role in the town’s medieval heritage.
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D.
Stone House
Stone House is a historic Civil War-era structure on the Manassas battlefield in Virginia that served as a field hospital during the First and Second Battles of Bull Run.
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E.
Stone House
Stone House is a historic residential structure that forms one of the principal architectural components of the early 19th-century country estate complex at Hyde Hall in New York.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Foursquare
ⓘ
residential architectural style ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasAlternativeName |
American Foursquare
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Foursquare House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDesignGoal |
affordability
ⓘ
ease of construction ⓘ functional efficiency ⓘ spacious interior ⓘ |
| hasPeakPopularity |
1900s
ⓘ
1910s ⓘ 1920s ⓘ |
| hasPlan | square floor plan ⓘ |
| hasShape | boxy form ⓘ |
| hasTypicalAudience | American middle-class families ⓘ |
| hasTypicalEraOfPopularity |
circa 1890s–1930s
ⓘ
early 20th century ⓘ |
| hasTypicalFacade | symmetrical front elevation ⓘ |
| hasTypicalFeature |
central dormer
ⓘ
efficient use of space ⓘ front dormer ⓘ full-width front porch ⓘ large front porch ⓘ low-hipped roof ⓘ practical interior layout ⓘ simple ornamentation ⓘ wide eaves ⓘ |
| hasTypicalHeight |
two stories
ⓘ
two-and-a-half stories ⓘ |
| hasTypicalLayout |
central hallway
ⓘ
four-room floor per level ⓘ |
| hasTypicalMaterial |
brick
ⓘ
stone foundation ⓘ stucco ⓘ wood frame ⓘ |
| hasTypicalWindowType | double-hung sash windows ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Colonial Revival
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Craftsman style NERFINISHED ⓘ Prairie School architecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCommonIn |
American small towns
ⓘ
American urban neighborhoods ⓘ streetcar suburbs ⓘ |
| roofType | hipped roof ⓘ |
| typicalPlanFeature |
central staircase
GENERATED
ⓘ
four-square room arrangement GENERATED ⓘ |
| typicalPorchSupport |
square columns
GENERATED
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tapered columns GENERATED ⓘ |
| usedAs |
middle-class housing
ⓘ
single-family dwelling ⓘ |
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: Box House Description of subject: Box House is an alternative name for the American Foursquare, a popular early-20th-century U.S. residential architectural style characterized by its simple boxy shape and efficient, spacious layout.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.