Gage Building
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The Gage Building is a historic Chicago skyscraper celebrated as a prime example of early commercial architecture and the Chicago School style.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gage Building canonical | 5 |
| Gage Building Annex | 1 |
| Gage Building Annex Annex Annex | 1 |
| Gage Group Buildings | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3261591 — 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: Gage Building Context triple: [William Holabird, notableWork, Gage Building]
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A.
Greene Building
The Greene Building is a prominent academic facility at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, primarily associated with architecture and related design disciplines.
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B.
Raymond Building
Raymond Building is a key academic and research facility located on McGill University's Macdonald Campus.
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C.
Adams Building
The Adams Building is one of the main Library of Congress buildings in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections and reading rooms.
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D.
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.
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E.
Ricketts Building
The Ricketts Building is an academic facility at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that houses classrooms, laboratories, and offices for engineering and science programs.
- 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: Gage Building Target entity description: The Gage Building is a historic Chicago skyscraper celebrated as a prime example of early commercial architecture and the Chicago School style.
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A.
Greene Building
The Greene Building is a prominent academic facility at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, primarily associated with architecture and related design disciplines.
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B.
Raymond Building
Raymond Building is a key academic and research facility located on McGill University's Macdonald Campus.
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C.
Adams Building
The Adams Building is one of the main Library of Congress buildings in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections and reading rooms.
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D.
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.
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E.
Ricketts Building
The Ricketts Building is an academic facility at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that houses classrooms, laboratories, and offices for engineering and science programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chicago School building
ⓘ
historic building ⓘ office building ⓘ skyscraper ⓘ |
| architect |
Holabird & Roche
ⓘ
Louis Sullivan ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Chicago School of Architecture
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago School
early commercial style ⓘ |
| category |
Chicago School architecture in Illinois
ⓘ
Commercial buildings completed in 1899 ⓘ Skyscrapers in Chicago ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1899 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| elevationAboveGround | approximately 200 feet ⓘ |
| floorAreaType | office space ⓘ |
| floorCount | 16 ⓘ |
| hasChicagoLandmarkDesignationDate | 1996 ⓘ |
| hasNeighbor |
Edson Keith Building
ⓘ
Lacaille Building ⓘ |
| hasPart | Sullivan-designed façade section ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
Chicago Landmark
ⓘ
U.S. National Register of Historic Places contributing property ⓘ
surface form:
National Register of Historic Places contributing property
|
| inception | 1890s ⓘ |
| isPartOfStreetscape | Michigan Avenue streetwall ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Loop (Chicago)
ⓘ
surface form:
Loop, Chicago
|
| locatedNear |
Art Institute of Chicago
ⓘ
Chicago Cultural Center ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Michigan Avenue ⓘ |
| location |
Chicago
ⓘ
Illinois ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| materialUsed |
steel frame
ⓘ
terra cotta ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Gage Brothers
ⓘ
surface form:
Gage Brothers & Company
|
| notableFor |
early commercial skyscraper design
ⓘ
expression of Chicago School principles ⓘ ornate Louis Sullivan façade ⓘ |
| numberOfFloors | 16 ⓘ |
| originalFunction | showrooms for dressmakers ⓘ |
| overlooks |
Grant Park
ⓘ
Millennium Park ⓘ |
| partOf |
Gage Group
ⓘ
Historic Michigan Boulevard District ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan Boulevard Historic District
|
| streetAddress | 18 South Michigan Avenue ⓘ |
| use |
commercial
ⓘ
office ⓘ |
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: Gage Building Description of subject: The Gage Building is a historic Chicago skyscraper celebrated as a prime example of early commercial architecture and the Chicago School style.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Holabird & Roche
subject surface form:
Louis Sullivan
subject surface form:
Louis Sullivan
this entity surface form:
Gage Group Buildings
subject surface form:
Louis Sullivan
this entity surface form:
Gage Building Annex
subject surface form:
Louis Sullivan
this entity surface form:
Gage Building Annex Annex Annex