Rice Building (Troy, New York)
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The Rice Building is a historic, architecturally distinctive commercial structure in downtown Troy, New York, noted for its ornate 19th-century design and prominent corner location.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rice Building (Troy, New York) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2707315 — 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: Rice Building (Troy, New York) Context triple: [Central Troy Historic District, contains, Rice Building (Troy, New York)]
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A.
Erastus Corning Tower
Erastus Corning Tower is a prominent modernist skyscraper in Albany, New York, serving as the tallest building in the city and a key component of the state government complex.
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B.
Havemeyer Hall
Havemeyer Hall is a historic academic building at Columbia University in New York City, best known for its chemistry laboratories and its iconic lecture hall featured in numerous films.
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C.
Tanenbaum Hall
Tanenbaum Hall is a primary academic and administrative building of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, housing classrooms, offices, and legal research facilities.
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D.
Rensselaer Union
Rensselaer Union is the student-run hub for activities, services, and organizations at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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E.
McGraw Tower
McGraw Tower is the iconic clock and chimes tower on Cornell University's campus, known for its daily chimes concerts and prominent presence in the university skyline.
- 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: Rice Building (Troy, New York) Target entity description: The Rice Building is a historic, architecturally distinctive commercial structure in downtown Troy, New York, noted for its ornate 19th-century design and prominent corner location.
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A.
Erastus Corning Tower
Erastus Corning Tower is a prominent modernist skyscraper in Albany, New York, serving as the tallest building in the city and a key component of the state government complex.
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B.
Havemeyer Hall
Havemeyer Hall is a historic academic building at Columbia University in New York City, best known for its chemistry laboratories and its iconic lecture hall featured in numerous films.
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C.
Tanenbaum Hall
Tanenbaum Hall is a primary academic and administrative building of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, housing classrooms, offices, and legal research facilities.
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D.
Rensselaer Union
Rensselaer Union is the student-run hub for activities, services, and organizations at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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E.
McGraw Tower
McGraw Tower is the iconic clock and chimes tower on Cornell University's campus, known for its daily chimes concerts and prominent presence in the university skyline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial building
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historic building ⓘ landmark ⓘ office building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
19th-century commercial architecture
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ornate Victorian-era design ⓘ |
| category |
buildings and structures in Troy, New York
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commercial buildings in New York (state) ⓘ |
| cornerLocation | prominent street corner ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
business premises
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offices ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic structure ⓘ |
| locatedInDowntown | downtown Troy, New York ⓘ |
| location |
New York State
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surface form:
New York (state)
Rensselaer County, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Troy, New York ⓘ |
| material | masonry ⓘ |
| notableFor |
architectural distinctiveness
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ornate 19th-century design ⓘ prominent corner location ⓘ |
| partOf | built environment of Troy, New York ⓘ |
| use |
commercial
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office space ⓘ |
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: Rice Building (Troy, New York) Description of subject: The Rice Building is a historic, architecturally distinctive commercial structure in downtown Troy, New York, noted for its ornate 19th-century design and prominent corner location.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.