U.S. Custom House (Galveston, Texas)
E471905
The U.S. Custom House in Galveston, Texas is a historic 19th-century federal building known for its grand Second Empire architectural style and its role in regulating the bustling Gulf Coast port’s trade.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| U.S. Custom House (Galveston, Texas) canonical | 1 |
| U.S. Custom House, Galveston, Texas | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4819138 — 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: U.S. Custom House (Galveston, Texas) Context triple: [Alfred B. Mullett, notableWork, U.S. Custom House (Galveston, Texas)]
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A.
Customs House
Customs House is a historic waterfront building in Hobart, Tasmania, notable for its colonial architecture and former role in administering maritime trade and customs.
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B.
Customs House
Customs House is a historic neoclassical waterfront building on Shanghai’s Bund, long serving as a key symbol of the city’s colonial-era commercial and maritime trade.
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C.
United States Custom House
The United States Custom House is a historic federal building in New York City that once served as the primary customs collection point for the bustling port, reflecting the city’s central role in American trade and finance.
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D.
Old State, War, and Navy Building
The Old State, War, and Navy Building is a historic 19th-century government office building in Washington, D.C., known for its elaborate Second Empire architecture and its role in housing key U.S. executive branch departments.
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E.
Council House
Council House is a prominent civic building and architectural landmark in Nottingham, England, serving as the city’s council headquarters and a focal point of its central square.
- 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: U.S. Custom House (Galveston, Texas) Target entity description: The U.S. Custom House in Galveston, Texas is a historic 19th-century federal building known for its grand Second Empire architectural style and its role in regulating the bustling Gulf Coast port’s trade.
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A.
Customs House
Customs House is a historic waterfront building in Hobart, Tasmania, notable for its colonial architecture and former role in administering maritime trade and customs.
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B.
Customs House
Customs House is a historic neoclassical waterfront building on Shanghai’s Bund, long serving as a key symbol of the city’s colonial-era commercial and maritime trade.
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C.
United States Custom House
The United States Custom House is a historic federal building in New York City that once served as the primary customs collection point for the bustling port, reflecting the city’s central role in American trade and finance.
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D.
Old State, War, and Navy Building
The Old State, War, and Navy Building is a historic 19th-century government office building in Washington, D.C., known for its elaborate Second Empire architecture and its role in housing key U.S. executive branch departments.
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E.
Council House
Council House is a prominent civic building and architectural landmark in Nottingham, England, serving as the city’s council headquarters and a focal point of its central square.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
custom house
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government building ⓘ historic federal building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Second Empire ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Gulf Coast maritime commerce
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Port of Galveston ⓘ |
| builtFor | United States Customs Service ⓘ |
| category |
Custom houses in the United States
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Government buildings in Texas ⓘ Historic buildings and structures in Galveston, Texas ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| function |
customs administration
ⓘ
regulation of maritime trade ⓘ |
| governingBody |
United States federal government
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linked to:
United States government
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| hasFeature |
grand architectural detailing
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ornate Second Empire design elements ⓘ |
| hasFunction | federal administrative offices ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | listed on the National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | recognized as a historic property ⓘ |
| historicalRole | regulating trade at a major 19th-century U.S. port ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Galveston County, Texas
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Gulf Coast region ⓘ
linked to:
Gulf Coast of the United States
|
| location |
Galveston, Texas
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linked to:
Galveston
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| partOf | federal government facilities in Galveston ⓘ |
| region |
Texas Gulf Coast
ⓘ
linked to:
Gulf Coast of Texas
|
| significance |
example of 19th-century Second Empire federal architecture in Texas
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important center for regulation of port trade in Galveston ⓘ |
| usedFor |
collection of customs duties
ⓘ
processing of imports and exports ⓘ |
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: U.S. Custom House (Galveston, Texas) Description of subject: The U.S. Custom House in Galveston, Texas is a historic 19th-century federal building known for its grand Second Empire architectural style and its role in regulating the bustling Gulf Coast port’s trade.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: U.S. Custom House (Galveston, Texas)