Scribner Building
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The Scribner Building is a historic Beaux-Arts style commercial structure in Manhattan that once housed the prominent American publishing firm Charles Scribner's Sons.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scribner Building canonical | 2 |
| Charles Scribner's Sons Building | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T824008 — 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: Scribner Building Context triple: [Charles Scribner's Sons, building, Scribner Building]
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A.
McClurg Building
The McClurg Building is a historic Chicago commercial structure recognized as a significant example of early skyscraper design by the architectural firm Holabird & Roche.
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B.
Ahmanson Building
The Ahmanson Building is a major gallery and exhibition space within the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, housing significant portions of its art collections.
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C.
Adams Building
The Adams Building is one of the main Library of Congress buildings in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections and reading rooms.
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D.
Bradbury Building
The Bradbury Building is a historic architectural landmark in downtown Los Angeles, renowned for its ornate ironwork, open-cage elevators, and dramatic sunlit atrium featured in numerous films.
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E.
Madison Building
The Madison Building is one of the main Library of Congress structures in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections, reading rooms, and administrative offices.
- 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: Scribner Building Target entity description: The Scribner Building is a historic Beaux-Arts style commercial structure in Manhattan that once housed the prominent American publishing firm Charles Scribner's Sons.
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A.
McClurg Building
The McClurg Building is a historic Chicago commercial structure recognized as a significant example of early skyscraper design by the architectural firm Holabird & Roche.
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B.
Ahmanson Building
The Ahmanson Building is a major gallery and exhibition space within the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, housing significant portions of its art collections.
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C.
Adams Building
The Adams Building is one of the main Library of Congress buildings in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections and reading rooms.
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D.
Bradbury Building
The Bradbury Building is a historic architectural landmark in downtown Los Angeles, renowned for its ornate ironwork, open-cage elevators, and dramatic sunlit atrium featured in numerous films.
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E.
Madison Building
The Madison Building is one of the main Library of Congress structures in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections, reading rooms, and administrative offices.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Beaux-Arts architecture
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commercial building ⓘ historic building ⓘ office building ⓘ |
| architect | Ernest Flagg ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Beaux-Arts ⓘ |
| borough | Manhattan ⓘ |
| builtFor | Charles Scribner's Sons ⓘ |
| category |
Beaux-Arts architecture in New York City
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Commercial buildings in Manhattan ⓘ New York City Landmark ⓘ
surface form:
New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan
Publishing company headquarters in the United States ⓘ |
| city | New York City ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1913 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| floorCount | 12 ⓘ |
| formerTenant | Charles Scribner's Sons ⓘ |
| function |
bookstore
ⓘ
publishing house headquarters ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName |
Scribner Building
ⓘ
surface form:
Charles Scribner's Sons Building
|
| hasFacadeFeature |
balustraded cornice
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classical pilasters ⓘ large arched windows ⓘ ornamental cartouches ⓘ |
| hasSignificantTenant |
office tenants
ⓘ
retail bookstore ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | New York City Landmark ⓘ |
| landmarkDesignationBy | New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission ⓘ |
| landmarkDesignationDate | 1982 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York ⓘ New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedNear | East 48th Street ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Fifth Avenue ⓘ |
| material | limestone ⓘ |
| neighborhood | Midtown Manhattan ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Beaux-Arts commercial architecture on Fifth Avenue
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association with Charles Scribner's Sons publishing firm ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1913 ⓘ |
| originalOwner | Charles Scribner's Sons ⓘ |
| partOf |
Fifth Avenue
ⓘ
surface form:
Fifth Avenue commercial corridor
|
| streetAddress | 597 Fifth Avenue ⓘ |
| use |
commercial
ⓘ
office ⓘ retail ⓘ |
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: Scribner Building Description of subject: The Scribner Building is a historic Beaux-Arts style commercial structure in Manhattan that once housed the prominent American publishing firm Charles Scribner's Sons.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Charles Scribner's Sons Building