The Rice Building
E61184
The Rice Building is a historic, architecturally distinctive commercial structure in downtown Troy, New York, noted for its narrow, triangular “flatiron” form.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Rice Building canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T476759 — 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: The Rice Building Context triple: [Troy, New York, hasLandmark, The Rice Building]
-
A.
Brooks Building
The Brooks Building is a key teaching and learning facility of Manchester Metropolitan University, known for housing education and health-related disciplines in modern, sustainable spaces.
-
B.
John A. Wilson Building
The John A. Wilson Building is a historic government office building in Washington, D.C., that houses the city’s primary municipal and legislative offices.
-
C.
Madison Building
The Madison Building is one of the main Library of Congress structures in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections, reading rooms, and administrative offices.
-
D.
Jackson Graham Building
The Jackson Graham Building is an office complex in Washington, D.C., best known as the longtime central administrative headquarters of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
-
E.
Bloch Building
The Bloch Building is a striking contemporary glass-and-concrete expansion of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, renowned for its luminous “lenses” emerging from the landscape.
- 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: The Rice Building Target entity description: The Rice Building is a historic, architecturally distinctive commercial structure in downtown Troy, New York, noted for its narrow, triangular “flatiron” form.
-
A.
Brooks Building
The Brooks Building is a key teaching and learning facility of Manchester Metropolitan University, known for housing education and health-related disciplines in modern, sustainable spaces.
-
B.
John A. Wilson Building
The John A. Wilson Building is a historic government office building in Washington, D.C., that houses the city’s primary municipal and legislative offices.
-
C.
Madison Building
The Madison Building is one of the main Library of Congress structures in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections, reading rooms, and administrative offices.
-
D.
Jackson Graham Building
The Jackson Graham Building is an office complex in Washington, D.C., best known as the longtime central administrative headquarters of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
-
E.
Bloch Building
The Bloch Building is a striking contemporary glass-and-concrete expansion of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, renowned for its luminous “lenses” emerging from the landscape.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flatiron building
ⓘ
historic commercial building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Romanesque Revival
ⓘ
Victorian architecture ⓘ |
| category |
commercial buildings in Troy, New York
ⓘ
historic buildings in Rensselaer County, New York ⓘ office buildings in New York State ⓘ |
| city | Troy, New York ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| era | late 19th century ⓘ |
| floorCount | 3 ⓘ |
| hasFacade | ornamented brickwork ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
corner entrance
ⓘ
multiple street-facing elevations ⓘ narrow street frontage ⓘ |
| hasForm | flatiron ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
office space
ⓘ
retail space ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic building ⓘ |
| isPartOf | downtown Troy historic fabric ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New York
ⓘ
surface form:
New York State
Rensselaer County ⓘ
surface form:
Rensselaer County, New York
Troy, New York ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| material |
brick
ⓘ
stone ⓘ |
| neighborhood | downtown Troy ⓘ |
| notableFor |
architectural distinctiveness
ⓘ
flatiron form ⓘ narrow triangular plan ⓘ |
| roofType | mansard roof ⓘ |
| shape | triangular ⓘ |
| use | commercial ⓘ |
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: The Rice Building Description of subject: The Rice Building is a historic, architecturally distinctive commercial structure in downtown Troy, New York, noted for its narrow, triangular “flatiron” form.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Troy, New York
subject surface form:
Troy, New York