Bedford limestone
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Bedford limestone is a high-quality, fine-grained building stone from southern Indiana widely used in prominent architectural landmarks across the United States.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bedford Limestone | 2 |
| Salem limestone | 2 |
| Bedford limestone canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T359336 — 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.
Target entity: Bedford limestone Context triple: [Indiana limestone, alsoKnownAs, Bedford limestone]
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Tura limestone
Tura limestone is a fine white Egyptian limestone historically prized for its high quality and used as the outer casing stone for major monuments such as the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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Anston limestone
Anston limestone is a durable, fine-grained building stone from Anston in South Yorkshire, England, historically quarried for major 19th-century architectural projects.
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Aquia Creek sandstone
Aquia Creek sandstone is a historically significant building stone quarried in Virginia, widely known for its use in early U.S. federal architecture including the White House and the Capitol.
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Old Red Sandstone
Old Red Sandstone is a thick sequence of Devonian-age sedimentary rocks, notable for its red coloration and widespread occurrence across parts of Scotland and other regions of the North Atlantic.
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Tuckahoe marble
Tuckahoe marble is a high-quality white to gray dolomitic marble historically quarried in Westchester County, New York, widely used in prominent 19th-century American buildings and monuments.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Bedford limestone Target entity description: Bedford limestone is a high-quality, fine-grained building stone from southern Indiana widely used in prominent architectural landmarks across the United States.
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A.
Tura limestone
Tura limestone is a fine white Egyptian limestone historically prized for its high quality and used as the outer casing stone for major monuments such as the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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B.
Anston limestone
Anston limestone is a durable, fine-grained building stone from Anston in South Yorkshire, England, historically quarried for major 19th-century architectural projects.
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C.
Aquia Creek sandstone
Aquia Creek sandstone is a historically significant building stone quarried in Virginia, widely known for its use in early U.S. federal architecture including the White House and the Capitol.
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D.
Old Red Sandstone
Old Red Sandstone is a thick sequence of Devonian-age sedimentary rocks, notable for its red coloration and widespread occurrence across parts of Scotland and other regions of the North Atlantic.
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E.
Tuckahoe marble
Tuckahoe marble is a high-quality white to gray dolomitic marble historically quarried in Westchester County, New York, widely used in prominent 19th-century American buildings and monuments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building stone
ⓘ
dimension stone ⓘ geologic formation ⓘ limestone ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Indiana limestone
ⓘ
Bedford limestone ⓘ
surface form:
Salem limestone
|
| belongsToGroup | Sanders Group ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| geologicAge | Mississippian ⓘ |
| geologicPeriod |
Carboniferous period
ⓘ
surface form:
Carboniferous
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| hasColor |
blue-gray
ⓘ
buff ⓘ light gray ⓘ |
| hasCompressiveStrength | high ⓘ |
| hasPorosity | medium ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryLithology | calcite ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
easily tooled
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frost resistant ⓘ relatively homogeneous ⓘ |
| hasTexture | fine-grained ⓘ |
| hasTypeLocality | Bedford, Indiana ⓘ |
| isEconomicResourceOf | Indiana stone industry ⓘ |
| isMarketedAs |
Indiana limestone
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surface form:
Indiana Limestone
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| isNotedFor |
ease of carving
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high durability ⓘ uniform texture ⓘ weather resistance ⓘ |
| isQuarriedIn |
Lawrence County, Indiana
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Monroe County, Indiana ⓘ Owen County, Indiana ⓘ |
| overlies | Harrodsburg Limestone ⓘ |
| region |
Southern Indiana
ⓘ
surface form:
southern Indiana
|
| state | Indiana ⓘ |
| underlies | Mitchell Limestone ⓘ |
| usedFor |
bridges
ⓘ
building facades ⓘ load-bearing walls ⓘ monuments ⓘ ornamental stonework ⓘ public buildings ⓘ university buildings ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Biltmore Estate
ⓘ
Chicago Tribune Tower ⓘ Empire State Building ⓘ Indiana University Bloomington buildings ⓘ National Cathedral ⓘ Rockefeller Center ⓘ Pentagon ⓘ
surface form:
The Pentagon
U.S. state capitol buildings ⓘ |
| wasExtensivelyUsedIn | early 20th century American architecture ⓘ |
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Subject: Bedford limestone Description of subject: Bedford limestone is a high-quality, fine-grained building stone from southern Indiana widely used in prominent architectural landmarks across the United States.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.