Singer House
E28051
Singer House is a historic Art Nouveau building in Saint Petersburg, Russia, famed for its distinctive glass dome and for housing the city’s main Dom Knigi bookstore.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Singer House canonical | 5 |
| Дом компании Зингер | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T219052 — 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: Singer House Context triple: [Nevsky Prospekt, hasLandmark, Singer House]
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A.
Petersen House
Petersen House is the Washington, D.C. boarding house where President Abraham Lincoln was taken after being shot at Ford’s Theatre and where he ultimately died, making it a significant historic site of the American Civil War era.
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B.
Vaile Mansion
Vaile Mansion is a historic 19th-century Victorian estate in Independence, Missouri, renowned for its ornate architecture and role as a prominent local landmark.
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C.
Brooks Building
The Brooks Building is a key teaching and learning facility of Manchester Metropolitan University, known for housing education and health-related disciplines in modern, sustainable spaces.
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D.
Sutton Place
Sutton Place is an affluent residential neighborhood on Manhattan’s East Side, known for its elegant townhouses, river views, and quiet, exclusive character.
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E.
Bingham-Waggoner Estate
The Bingham-Waggoner Estate is a historic 19th-century mansion and former home of artist-politician George Caleb Bingham, now preserved as a museum in Independence, Missouri.
- 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: Singer House Target entity description: Singer House is a historic Art Nouveau building in Saint Petersburg, Russia, famed for its distinctive glass dome and for housing the city’s main Dom Knigi bookstore.
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A.
Petersen House
Petersen House is the Washington, D.C. boarding house where President Abraham Lincoln was taken after being shot at Ford’s Theatre and where he ultimately died, making it a significant historic site of the American Civil War era.
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B.
Vaile Mansion
Vaile Mansion is a historic 19th-century Victorian estate in Independence, Missouri, renowned for its ornate architecture and role as a prominent local landmark.
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C.
Brooks Building
The Brooks Building is a key teaching and learning facility of Manchester Metropolitan University, known for housing education and health-related disciplines in modern, sustainable spaces.
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D.
Sutton Place
Sutton Place is an affluent residential neighborhood on Manhattan’s East Side, known for its elegant townhouses, river views, and quiet, exclusive character.
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E.
Bingham-Waggoner Estate
The Bingham-Waggoner Estate is a historic 19th-century mansion and former home of artist-politician George Caleb Bingham, now preserved as a museum in Independence, Missouri.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Art Nouveau architecture
ⓘ
building ⓘ historic building ⓘ |
| architect | Pavel Suzor ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Art Nouveau ⓘ |
| cityCentreLandmark | true ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Russia ⓘ |
| elevationFeature | one of the first high-rise commercial buildings on Nevsky Prospekt ⓘ |
| endDate | 1904 ⓘ |
| floorCount | 7 ⓘ |
| formerName | House of the Book ⓘ |
| function | commercial building ⓘ |
| hasAddressCity |
St. Petersburg
ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Petersburg
|
| hasAddressCountry | Russia ⓘ |
| hasDome | glass dome ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
metal framing
ⓘ
ornamental facade ⓘ panoramic windows ⓘ |
| hasPart |
corner tower
ⓘ
glass dome ⓘ |
| hasSculpture |
Atlantes figures
ⓘ
female allegorical figures ⓘ |
| hasViewOf |
Kazan Cathedral
ⓘ
Nevsky Prospekt ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationAuthority | Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | cultural heritage monument of federal significance in Russia ⓘ |
| localName |
House of the Book
ⓘ
surface form:
Дом книги
Singer House self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Дом компании Зингер
|
| locatedIn |
Nevsky Prospekt
ⓘ
St. Petersburg ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Petersburg
Tsentralny District of Saint Petersburg ⓘ
surface form:
Tsentralny District, Saint Petersburg
|
| locatedNear |
Griboyedov Canal
ⓘ
Kazan Cathedral ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Nevsky Prospekt 28 ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Singer Sewing Machine Company ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Art Nouveau facade
ⓘ
distinctive glass dome ⓘ housing the main Dom Knigi bookstore in Saint Petersburg ⓘ |
| occupant | Dom Knigi bookstore ⓘ |
| originalOwner | Singer Sewing Machine Company ⓘ |
| roofMaterial | copper ⓘ |
| startDate | 1902 ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | true ⓘ |
| use |
bookstore
ⓘ
office building ⓘ |
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: Singer House Description of subject: Singer House is a historic Art Nouveau building in Saint Petersburg, Russia, famed for its distinctive glass dome and for housing the city’s main Dom Knigi bookstore.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Дом компании Зингер