House of the Book
E149865
House of the Book is the former name of the historic Singer House, an iconic early 20th-century Art Nouveau building in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Дом книги | 2 |
| House of the Book canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1313704 — 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: House of the Book Context triple: [Singer House, formerName, House of the Book]
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A.
House of the Blackheads
The House of the Blackheads is a richly ornamented historic guild building in Riga, Latvia, renowned for its striking Renaissance-style façade and role as a symbol of the city’s medieval mercantile past.
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B.
Among My Books
"Among My Books" is a collection of literary essays by American poet and critic James Russell Lowell, in which he offers scholarly and reflective studies of major authors and their works.
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C.
About the House
"About the House" is a 1965 poetry collection by W. H. Auden that reflects on domestic life, memory, and the passage of time through the organizing metaphor of a house.
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D.
Book of Longing
Book of Longing is a collection of poetry and drawings by Leonard Cohen that reflects his characteristic blend of spirituality, desire, and introspection.
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E.
Librarian’s Balcony
Librarian’s Balcony is an interior overlook space within the Library of Congress’s historic Thomas Jefferson Building, offering a vantage point over its grand reading or exhibition areas.
- 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: House of the Book Target entity description: House of the Book is the former name of the historic Singer House, an iconic early 20th-century Art Nouveau building in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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A.
House of the Blackheads
The House of the Blackheads is a richly ornamented historic guild building in Riga, Latvia, renowned for its striking Renaissance-style façade and role as a symbol of the city’s medieval mercantile past.
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B.
Among My Books
"Among My Books" is a collection of literary essays by American poet and critic James Russell Lowell, in which he offers scholarly and reflective studies of major authors and their works.
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C.
About the House
"About the House" is a 1965 poetry collection by W. H. Auden that reflects on domestic life, memory, and the passage of time through the organizing metaphor of a house.
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D.
Book of Longing
Book of Longing is a collection of poetry and drawings by Leonard Cohen that reflects his characteristic blend of spirituality, desire, and introspection.
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E.
Librarian’s Balcony
Librarian’s Balcony is an interior overlook space within the Library of Congress’s historic Thomas Jefferson Building, offering a vantage point over its grand reading or exhibition areas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building
ⓘ
historic building ⓘ |
| architect | Pavel Suzor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Art Nouveau ⓘ |
| builtFor | Singer Sewing Machine Company ⓘ |
| city |
St. Petersburg
ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Petersburg
|
| completionDate | 1904 ⓘ |
| country | Russia ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| facedMaterial | stone ⓘ |
| floorCount | 7 ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | Singer House ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Dom Knigi bookstore
ⓘ
surface form:
Dom Knigi
Dom knigi ⓘ Singer House ⓘ House of the Book ⓘ
surface form:
Дом книги
|
| hasCulturalSignificance |
iconic Art Nouveau building in Russia
ⓘ
landmark of Saint Petersburg ⓘ |
| hasDome | yes ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | cultural heritage monument of federal significance in Russia ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Russia
ⓘ
St. Petersburg ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Petersburg
|
| locatedOn | Nevsky Prospekt ⓘ |
| notableFeature | glass tower with a globe ⓘ |
| partOf | historic center of Saint Petersburg ⓘ |
| startDate | 1902 ⓘ |
| use |
bookstore
ⓘ
offices ⓘ 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: House of the Book Description of subject: House of the Book is the former name of the historic Singer House, an iconic early 20th-century Art Nouveau building in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Дом книги
this entity surface form:
Дом книги