Koïfhus (Old Customs House)
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Koïfhus (Old Customs House) is a historic medieval customs and trade building in Colmar, France, notable for its distinctive architecture and former role as a commercial and administrative center.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Koïfhus (Old Customs House) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2026932 — 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: Koïfhus (Old Customs House) Context triple: [Colmar, hasLandmark, Koïfhus (Old Customs House)]
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A.
Kollhoff Tower
Kollhoff Tower is a prominent high-rise office building in Berlin known for its brick-clad postmodern architecture and panoramic viewing platform overlooking Potsdamer Platz.
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B.
Customs House
Customs House is a historic neoclassical waterfront building on Shanghai’s Bund, long serving as a key symbol of the city’s colonial-era commercial and maritime trade.
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C.
Maagdenhuis building
The Maagdenhuis building is a historic structure in central Amsterdam that serves as the administrative headquarters of the University of Amsterdam and has been a notable site of student protests.
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D.
Stadhuis van Dordrecht
The Stadhuis van Dordrecht is the historic city hall of Dordrecht in the Netherlands, renowned for its monumental architecture and role as a symbol of the city’s civic history.
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E.
Neues Rathaus
Neues Rathaus is Munich’s grand neo-Gothic town hall on Marienplatz, famous for its ornate façade and the Glockenspiel clock tower.
- 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: Koïfhus (Old Customs House) Target entity description: Koïfhus (Old Customs House) is a historic medieval customs and trade building in Colmar, France, notable for its distinctive architecture and former role as a commercial and administrative center.
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A.
Kollhoff Tower
Kollhoff Tower is a prominent high-rise office building in Berlin known for its brick-clad postmodern architecture and panoramic viewing platform overlooking Potsdamer Platz.
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B.
Customs House
Customs House is a historic neoclassical waterfront building on Shanghai’s Bund, long serving as a key symbol of the city’s colonial-era commercial and maritime trade.
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C.
Maagdenhuis building
The Maagdenhuis building is a historic structure in central Amsterdam that serves as the administrative headquarters of the University of Amsterdam and has been a notable site of student protests.
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D.
Stadhuis van Dordrecht
The Stadhuis van Dordrecht is the historic city hall of Dordrecht in the Netherlands, renowned for its monumental architecture and role as a symbol of the city’s civic history.
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E.
Neues Rathaus
Neues Rathaus is Munich’s grand neo-Gothic town hall on Marienplatz, famous for its ornate façade and the Glockenspiel clock tower.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
customs house
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historic building ⓘ medieval building ⓘ monument historique ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Ancienne Douane de Strasbourg
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surface form:
Ancienne Douane
Old Customs House ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Alsatian architecture
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medieval architecture ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Alsatian culture ⓘ |
| currentUse |
cultural venue
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exhibition space ⓘ tourist site ⓘ |
| hasCity | Colmar ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
arcaded ground floor
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corner stair turret ⓘ decorative windows ⓘ timber elements ⓘ |
| hasSurroundings | historic streets of Colmar old town ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | monument historique of France ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationCountry | France ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alsace
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Colmar ⓘ Grand Est ⓘ Haut-Rhin ⓘ |
| locatedInOldTown | historic center of Colmar ⓘ |
| material |
stone
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tile ⓘ wood ⓘ |
| nativeName | Koïfhus ⓘ |
| nativeNameLanguage | fr ⓘ |
| originalFunction |
administrative center
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commercial center ⓘ customs house ⓘ trade building ⓘ |
| region | Alsace wine route area ⓘ |
| roofMaterial | tiled roof ⓘ |
| roofType | steep pitched roof ⓘ |
| significance |
important medieval commercial center of Colmar
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notable example of Alsatian civic architecture ⓘ |
| tourismImportance | major landmark of Colmar ⓘ |
| usedFor |
regulation of trade
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storage of goods ⓘ tax collection ⓘ |
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: Koïfhus (Old Customs House) Description of subject: Koïfhus (Old Customs House) is a historic medieval customs and trade building in Colmar, France, notable for its distinctive architecture and former role as a commercial and administrative center.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.