Ford Building
E480065
The Ford Building is a historic exhibition hall in San Diego’s Balboa Park, originally constructed as a showcase pavilion for the 1935–36 California Pacific International Exposition.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ford Building canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4922944 — 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: Ford Building Context triple: [California Pacific International Exposition, notableStructure, Ford Building]
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A.
Davis Building
The Davis Building is a facility located on the campus of the University of Texas at Martin (UTM), used for academic and institutional purposes.
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B.
Martin Building
The Martin Building is a key architectural wing of the Denver Art Museum, known for housing a significant portion of the museum’s art collections and exhibitions.
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C.
Sanford Building
The Sanford Building is the main academic and administrative facility that houses Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy.
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D.
Newton Building
Newton Building is a prominent academic and administrative facility that serves as the central hub of Nottingham Trent University in Nottingham, England.
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E.
North Building
North Building is one of the main commercial and office towers within the Grand Front Osaka complex, housing a mix of shops, restaurants, and business facilities.
- 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: Ford Building Target entity description: The Ford Building is a historic exhibition hall in San Diego’s Balboa Park, originally constructed as a showcase pavilion for the 1935–36 California Pacific International Exposition.
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A.
Davis Building
The Davis Building is a facility located on the campus of the University of Texas at Martin (UTM), used for academic and institutional purposes.
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B.
Martin Building
The Martin Building is a key architectural wing of the Denver Art Museum, known for housing a significant portion of the museum’s art collections and exhibitions.
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C.
Sanford Building
The Sanford Building is the main academic and administrative facility that houses Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy.
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D.
Newton Building
Newton Building is a prominent academic and administrative facility that serves as the central hub of Nottingham Trent University in Nottingham, England.
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E.
North Building
North Building is one of the main commercial and office towers within the Grand Front Osaka complex, housing a mix of shops, restaurants, and business facilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
exhibition hall
ⓘ
historic building ⓘ pavilion ⓘ |
| architect |
Sam Hamill
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William Templeton Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Moderne architecture
ⓘ
Streamline Moderne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Exposition building
ⓘ
Museum building in San Diego ⓘ World's fair architecture ⓘ |
| constructedFor | California Pacific International Exposition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1934 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| currentUse | San Diego Air & Space Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Great Depression era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| expositionYears |
1935
ⓘ
1936 ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic resource ⓘ |
| houses | San Diego Air & Space Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inaugurationYear | 1935 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Balboa Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
California, United States ⓘ
surface form:
California
San Diego NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| material | reinforced concrete ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Ford Motor Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
central open courtyard
ⓘ
radial floor plan ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1935 ⓘ |
| originalFunction |
exhibition hall
ⓘ
showcase pavilion ⓘ |
| partOf | Balboa Park historic district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Southern California ⓘ |
| shape | circular ⓘ |
| sponsor | Ford Motor Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| theme | automobile industry exhibition ⓘ |
| useDuringExposition |
automobile displays
ⓘ
industrial exhibits ⓘ |
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: Ford Building Description of subject: The Ford Building is a historic exhibition hall in San Diego’s Balboa Park, originally constructed as a showcase pavilion for the 1935–36 California Pacific International Exposition.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.