Potter Building
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The Potter Building is a historic late-19th-century red-brick office building in Lower Manhattan, New York City, noted for its elaborate Queen Anne and neo-Grec architectural details and early fireproof construction.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Potter Building canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12977262 — 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: Potter Building Context triple: [Park Row, hasBuilding, Potter Building]
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A.
Owen Building
Owen Building is a prominent academic and administrative facility on Sheffield Hallam University's city campus in Sheffield, England.
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B.
Goodhart Building
The Goodhart Building is an academic facility that forms part of the historic University College, Oxford campus.
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C.
Philtower Building
The Philtower Building is a historic Gothic Revival skyscraper in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, known for its distinctive illuminated tiled roof and association with oilman Waite Phillips.
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D.
Newton Building
Newton Building is a prominent academic and administrative facility that serves as the central hub of Nottingham Trent University in Nottingham, England.
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E.
Udbodhan House
Udbodhan House is a historic building in Kolkata that served as the residence of Sarada Devi and the headquarters of the Bengali magazine "Udbodhan," closely linked with the early Ramakrishna Movement.
- 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: Potter Building Target entity description: The Potter Building is a historic late-19th-century red-brick office building in Lower Manhattan, New York City, noted for its elaborate Queen Anne and neo-Grec architectural details and early fireproof construction.
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A.
Owen Building
Owen Building is a prominent academic and administrative facility on Sheffield Hallam University's city campus in Sheffield, England.
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B.
Goodhart Building
The Goodhart Building is an academic facility that forms part of the historic University College, Oxford campus.
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C.
Philtower Building
The Philtower Building is a historic Gothic Revival skyscraper in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, known for its distinctive illuminated tiled roof and association with oilman Waite Phillips.
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D.
Newton Building
Newton Building is a prominent academic and administrative facility that serves as the central hub of Nottingham Trent University in Nottingham, England.
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E.
Udbodhan House
Udbodhan House is a historic building in Kolkata that served as the residence of Sarada Devi and the headquarters of the Bengali magazine "Udbodhan," closely linked with the early Ramakrishna Movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial building
ⓘ
historic building ⓘ office building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Queen Anne
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neo-Grec ⓘ |
| color | red ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasArchitecturalElement | ornamental details ⓘ |
| hasConstructionType | fireproof construction ⓘ |
| hasFacade | brick facade ⓘ |
| hasFunction | commercial offices ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic building in New York City ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
New York County
ⓘ
State of New York ⓘ
linked to:
New York State
|
| locatedInTimePeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| location |
Lower Manhattan
ⓘ
Manhattan ⓘ New York City ⓘ |
| materialUsed | red brick ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early fireproof construction
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elaborate Queen Anne architectural details ⓘ neo-Grec architectural details ⓘ |
| partOf |
Lower Manhattan built environment
ⓘ
linked to:
Lower Manhattan
|
| use | offices ⓘ |
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: Potter Building Description of subject: The Potter Building is a historic late-19th-century red-brick office building in Lower Manhattan, New York City, noted for its elaborate Queen Anne and neo-Grec architectural details and early fireproof construction.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.