Building America
E10262
Building America is the corporate slogan used by Union Pacific Railroad to emphasize its role in supporting and connecting the nation’s economy and infrastructure.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Building America canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T106498 — 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: Building America Context triple: [Union Pacific Railroad, hasMotto, Building America]
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A.
Heart of America
Heart of America is a nickname for Kansas City, Missouri, highlighting its central location and cultural significance in the United States.
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B.
Great Lakes Works
Great Lakes Works is a large integrated steel manufacturing plant in Michigan known for producing flat-rolled steel products for the automotive and other industries.
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C.
Carnegie
Carnegie is a Scottish surname most famously associated with industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
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D.
Pentagon
The Pentagon is the five-sided headquarters of the United States Department of Defense and a symbol of the U.S. military.
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E.
Civil Works Administration
The Civil Works Administration was a short-lived U.S. federal jobs program of the New Deal that provided millions of unemployed workers with temporary manual labor on public works projects during the Great Depression.
- 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: Building America Target entity description: Building America is the corporate slogan used by Union Pacific Railroad to emphasize its role in supporting and connecting the nation’s economy and infrastructure.
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A.
Heart of America
Heart of America is a nickname for Kansas City, Missouri, highlighting its central location and cultural significance in the United States.
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B.
Great Lakes Works
Great Lakes Works is a large integrated steel manufacturing plant in Michigan known for producing flat-rolled steel products for the automotive and other industries.
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C.
Carnegie
Carnegie is a Scottish surname most famously associated with industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
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D.
Pentagon
The Pentagon is the five-sided headquarters of the United States Department of Defense and a symbol of the U.S. military.
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E.
Civil Works Administration
The Civil Works Administration was a short-lived U.S. federal jobs program of the New Deal that provided millions of unemployed workers with temporary manual labor on public works projects during the Great Depression.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | corporate slogan ⓘ |
| appearsOn |
Union Pacific advertising materials
ⓘ
Union Pacific Railroad ⓘ
surface form:
Union Pacific corporate communications
Union Pacific freight cars ⓘ Union Pacific Railroad ⓘ
surface form:
Union Pacific locomotives
Union Pacific website ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| associatedWith |
U.S. economy
ⓘ
freight rail ⓘ national infrastructure ⓘ railroad infrastructure ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| industry | rail transportation ⓘ |
| medium |
advertising campaigns
ⓘ
corporate branding ⓘ marketing ⓘ |
| mottoOf |
Union Pacific Railroad
ⓘ
surface form:
Union Pacific Corporation
Union Pacific Railroad ⓘ |
| purpose |
emphasize Union Pacific Railroad’s role in connecting national infrastructure
ⓘ
emphasize Union Pacific Railroad’s role in supporting the U.S. economy ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Union Pacific brand identity
ⓘ
Union Pacific corporate mission ⓘ |
| sloganLanguage | English ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
customers of Union Pacific Railroad
ⓘ
general public ⓘ investors ⓘ policy makers ⓘ |
| theme |
connectivity
ⓘ
economic growth ⓘ infrastructure development ⓘ nation building ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Union Pacific Railroad
ⓘ
surface form:
Union Pacific Corporation
Union Pacific Railroad ⓘ |
| usedSince | early 2000s ⓘ |
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: Building America Description of subject: Building America is the corporate slogan used by Union Pacific Railroad to emphasize its role in supporting and connecting the nation’s economy and infrastructure.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.