Old Patent Office Building (now part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery)
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The Old Patent Office Building is a monumental 19th-century Greek Revival structure in Washington, D.C., now housing the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery.
All labels observed (1)
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| Old Patent Office Building (now part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T384482 — 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: Old Patent Office Building (now part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery) Context triple: [Robert Mills, notableWork, Old Patent Office Building (now part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery)]
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Smithsonian Institution Building
The Smithsonian Institution Building, often called "The Castle," is a distinctive red sandstone landmark on the National Mall that serves as the historic headquarters and visitor center of the Smithsonian Institution.
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National Archives Building
The National Archives Building is a historic federal building in Washington, D.C. that houses and displays foundational U.S. documents such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
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East Building
The East Building is a modernist wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., renowned for its angular architecture by I. M. Pei and its collection of modern and contemporary art.
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Thomas Jefferson Building
The Thomas Jefferson Building is the historic, Beaux-Arts main building of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., renowned for its ornate architecture and iconic reading room.
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John Adams Building
The John Adams Building is one of the main Library of Congress structures in Washington, D.C., known for its Art Deco architecture and extensive research collections.
- 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: Old Patent Office Building (now part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery) Target entity description: The Old Patent Office Building is a monumental 19th-century Greek Revival structure in Washington, D.C., now housing the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery.
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A.
Smithsonian Institution Building
The Smithsonian Institution Building, often called "The Castle," is a distinctive red sandstone landmark on the National Mall that serves as the historic headquarters and visitor center of the Smithsonian Institution.
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B.
National Archives Building
The National Archives Building is a historic federal building in Washington, D.C. that houses and displays foundational U.S. documents such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
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C.
East Building
The East Building is a modernist wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., renowned for its angular architecture by I. M. Pei and its collection of modern and contemporary art.
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D.
Thomas Jefferson Building
The Thomas Jefferson Building is the historic, Beaux-Arts main building of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., renowned for its ornate architecture and iconic reading room.
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E.
John Adams Building
The John Adams Building is one of the main Library of Congress structures in Washington, D.C., known for its Art Deco architecture and extensive research collections.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Old Patent Office Building (now part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery) Description of subject: The Old Patent Office Building is a monumental 19th-century Greek Revival structure in Washington, D.C., now housing the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Robert Mills
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notableWork
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Old Patent Office Building (now part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery)
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