Seattle Central Library
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Seattle Central Library is a striking glass-and-steel public library building in downtown Seattle, renowned for its innovative architecture by Rem Koolhaas and its role as the flagship branch of the Seattle Public Library system.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Seattle Central Library canonical | 10 |
| Central Library (Seattle Public Library) | 2 |
| Seattle Central Library (as OMA partner) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T81660 — 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: Seattle Central Library Context triple: [Seattle, hasLandmark, Seattle Central Library]
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A.
Dewey Library
Dewey Library is a specialized library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focused on management, business, and social science resources.
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B.
Los Angeles Public Library
The Los Angeles Public Library is the landmark central library of Los Angeles, renowned for its distinctive architecture, extensive collections, and role as a major cultural and educational hub for the city.
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C.
Portland City Hall
Portland City Hall is the historic municipal building in downtown Portland, Oregon, that houses the offices and chambers of the city’s government.
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D.
Powell’s City of Books
Powell’s City of Books is a famed independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, renowned as one of the world’s largest new and used bookstores, occupying an entire city block.
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E.
Lamont Library
Lamont Library is an undergraduate-focused library at Harvard University known for its extensive collections, study spaces, and late-night access.
- 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: Seattle Central Library Target entity description: Seattle Central Library is a striking glass-and-steel public library building in downtown Seattle, renowned for its innovative architecture by Rem Koolhaas and its role as the flagship branch of the Seattle Public Library system.
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A.
Dewey Library
Dewey Library is a specialized library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focused on management, business, and social science resources.
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B.
Los Angeles Public Library
The Los Angeles Public Library is the landmark central library of Los Angeles, renowned for its distinctive architecture, extensive collections, and role as a major cultural and educational hub for the city.
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C.
Portland City Hall
Portland City Hall is the historic municipal building in downtown Portland, Oregon, that houses the offices and chambers of the city’s government.
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D.
Powell’s City of Books
Powell’s City of Books is a famed independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, renowned as one of the world’s largest new and used bookstores, occupying an entire city block.
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E.
Lamont Library
Lamont Library is an undergraduate-focused library at Harvard University known for its extensive collections, study spaces, and late-night access.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cultural institution
ⓘ
library branch ⓘ public library building ⓘ |
| architect |
Joshua Prince-Ramus
ⓘ
Rem Koolhaas ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
contemporary architecture
ⓘ
high-tech architecture ⓘ |
| architectureFirm |
LMN Architects
ⓘ
OMA ⓘ |
| awarded | American Institute of Architects Honor Award for Architecture ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1999 ⓘ |
| coordinateLatitude | 47.6067 ⓘ |
| coordinateLongitude | -122.3325 ⓘ |
| cost | approximately 165 million US dollars ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| flagshipOf |
Seattle Public Library
ⓘ
surface form:
Seattle Public Library system
|
| floorArea |
approximately 33600 square meters
ⓘ
approximately 362000 square feet ⓘ |
| function |
community space
ⓘ
public library ⓘ research facility ⓘ |
| hasCollectionSize | over 1 million books and materials ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
auditorium
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computer labs ⓘ glass-and-steel faceted exterior ⓘ large central atrium ⓘ public reading rooms ⓘ spiral book stack system ⓘ viewing platforms ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.spl.org/locations/central-library ⓘ |
| height |
56 meters
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approximately 185 feet ⓘ |
| inception | 2004 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Seattle
ⓘ
Washington ⓘ downtown Seattle ⓘ |
| material |
concrete
ⓘ
glass ⓘ steel ⓘ |
| name | Seattle Central Library self-link ⓘ |
| numberOfFloors | 11 ⓘ |
| opened | May 23, 2004 ⓘ |
| operator | Seattle Public Library ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Seattle Public Library ⓘ |
| postalCode | 98104 ⓘ |
| recognizedAs |
iconic building in Seattle
ⓘ
landmark of contemporary library design ⓘ |
| replaced | earlier Seattle Central Library building ⓘ |
| serves | residents of Seattle ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 1000 4th Avenue ⓘ |
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: Seattle Central Library Description of subject: Seattle Central Library is a striking glass-and-steel public library building in downtown Seattle, renowned for its innovative architecture by Rem Koolhaas and its role as the flagship branch of the Seattle Public Library system.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Seattle
subject surface form:
Downtown Seattle
this entity surface form:
Central Library (Seattle Public Library)
this entity surface form:
Central Library (Seattle Public Library)
this entity surface form:
Seattle Central Library (as OMA partner)