Wainwright Building
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The Wainwright Building is a pioneering early skyscraper in St. Louis, Missouri, celebrated as a landmark of the Chicago School and modern architectural design.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wainwright Building canonical | 5 |
| Wainwright Building Annex | 1 |
| Wainwright Building Annex Annex | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2641442 — 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: Wainwright Building Context triple: [Chicago School architecture, hasNotableWork, Wainwright Building]
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A.
Kansas City Life Insurance Company Building
The Kansas City Life Insurance Company Building is a prominent early 20th-century office building in Kansas City, Missouri, recognized for its classical architectural design and role as the longtime headquarters of the Kansas City Life Insurance Company.
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B.
Scribner Building
The Scribner Building is a historic Beaux-Arts style commercial structure in Manhattan that once housed the prominent American publishing firm Charles Scribner's Sons.
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C.
May Company Building
The May Company Building is a historic Streamline Moderne department store structure on Los Angeles’s Miracle Mile, now known for housing the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
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D.
Marquette Building
The Marquette Building is a landmark early Chicago School skyscraper in downtown Chicago, celebrated for its steel-frame construction and richly ornamented terra-cotta and mosaic detailing.
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E.
Johnson Building
The Johnson Building is a modernist wing of the Boston Public Library’s Copley Square main branch, known for housing its contemporary collections and public services.
- 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: Wainwright Building Target entity description: The Wainwright Building is a pioneering early skyscraper in St. Louis, Missouri, celebrated as a landmark of the Chicago School and modern architectural design.
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A.
Kansas City Life Insurance Company Building
The Kansas City Life Insurance Company Building is a prominent early 20th-century office building in Kansas City, Missouri, recognized for its classical architectural design and role as the longtime headquarters of the Kansas City Life Insurance Company.
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B.
Scribner Building
The Scribner Building is a historic Beaux-Arts style commercial structure in Manhattan that once housed the prominent American publishing firm Charles Scribner's Sons.
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C.
May Company Building
The May Company Building is a historic Streamline Moderne department store structure on Los Angeles’s Miracle Mile, now known for housing the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
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D.
Marquette Building
The Marquette Building is a landmark early Chicago School skyscraper in downtown Chicago, celebrated for its steel-frame construction and richly ornamented terra-cotta and mosaic detailing.
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E.
Johnson Building
The Johnson Building is a modernist wing of the Boston Public Library’s Copley Square main branch, known for housing its contemporary collections and public services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
early skyscraper
ⓘ
historic building ⓘ office building ⓘ |
| architect |
Dankmar Adler
ⓘ
Louis Sullivan ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Chicago School architecture
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago School
early modern architecture ⓘ |
| category |
Chicago School architecture in Missouri
ⓘ
National Historic Landmarks in Missouri ⓘ skyscraper in St. Louis ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
USA
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| designedBy | Adler & Sullivan ⓘ |
| era | late 19th century architecture ⓘ |
| function | office use ⓘ |
| genre | commercial architecture ⓘ |
| hasFacade |
red brick
ⓘ
terra cotta ornament ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
horizontal spandrel panels
ⓘ
strong vertical piers ⓘ tripartite skyscraper composition ⓘ |
| hasPart |
ground-floor retail base
ⓘ
ornamented cornice ⓘ vertical office shaft ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
National Historic Landmark
ⓘ
National Register of Historic Places ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. National Register of Historic Places listing
|
| heritageStatus | protected historic structure ⓘ |
| inception | 1890s ⓘ |
| influenced | later skyscraper design ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Missouri
ⓘ
Saint Louis City ⓘ
surface form:
St. Louis
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| material |
steel frame
ⓘ
terra cotta cladding ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Ellis Wainwright ⓘ |
| owner |
Missouri
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Missouri
|
| roofType | flat roof ⓘ |
| significance |
landmark of the Chicago School
ⓘ
milestone in modern architectural design ⓘ pioneering early skyscraper ⓘ |
| state | Missouri ⓘ |
| use |
government offices
ⓘ
state 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: Wainwright Building Description of subject: The Wainwright Building is a pioneering early skyscraper in St. Louis, Missouri, celebrated as a landmark of the Chicago School and modern architectural design.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Louis Sullivan
subject surface form:
Louis Sullivan
this entity surface form:
Wainwright Building Annex
subject surface form:
Louis Sullivan
this entity surface form:
Wainwright Building Annex Annex