McClurg Building
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The McClurg Building is a historic Chicago commercial structure recognized as a significant example of early skyscraper design by the architectural firm Holabird & Roche.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McClurg Building canonical | 4 |
| Leiter II Building | 2 |
| Fort Dearborn Building | 1 |
| Republic Building | 1 |
| The Peoples Gas Building | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T503838 — 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: McClurg Building Context triple: [Holabird & Roche, notableWork, McClurg Building]
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A.
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.
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B.
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.
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C.
Marquette Building
The Marquette Building is a landmark early Chicago School skyscraper in downtown Chicago, celebrated for its steel-frame construction and richly ornamented terra-cotta and mosaic detailing.
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D.
Adams Building
The Adams Building is one of the main Library of Congress buildings in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections and reading rooms.
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E.
Ahmanson Building
The Ahmanson Building is a major gallery and exhibition space within the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, housing significant portions of its art 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: McClurg Building Target entity description: The McClurg Building is a historic Chicago commercial structure recognized as a significant example of early skyscraper design by the architectural firm Holabird & Roche.
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A.
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.
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B.
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.
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C.
Marquette Building
The Marquette Building is a landmark early Chicago School skyscraper in downtown Chicago, celebrated for its steel-frame construction and richly ornamented terra-cotta and mosaic detailing.
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D.
Adams Building
The Adams Building is one of the main Library of Congress buildings in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections and reading rooms.
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E.
Ahmanson Building
The Ahmanson Building is a major gallery and exhibition space within the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, housing significant portions of its art collections.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chicago Landmark
ⓘ
commercial building ⓘ historic building ⓘ skyscraper ⓘ |
| architect | Holabird & Roche ⓘ |
| architecturalFirm | Holabird & Roche ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Chicago School architecture
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surface form:
Chicago School
|
| category |
Chicago School architecture in Illinois
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Commercial buildings completed in the 19th century ⓘ Skyscraper office buildings in Chicago ⓘ |
| city |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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surface form:
Chicago
|
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| facadeMaterial | masonry ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
grid-like facade composition
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large Chicago-style windows ⓘ ornamental terra cotta detailing ⓘ |
| hasFunction | office building ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
Chicago Landmark
ⓘ
listed on the National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago
Chicago Loop ⓘ Illinois ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| material | steel-frame construction ⓘ |
| namedAfter | McClurg ⓘ |
| partOf | early skyscraper development in Chicago ⓘ |
| significance |
example of early skyscraper design
ⓘ
significant example of Chicago School commercial architecture ⓘ |
| 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: McClurg Building Description of subject: The McClurg Building is a historic Chicago commercial structure recognized as a significant example of early skyscraper design by the architectural firm Holabird & Roche.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Fort Dearborn Building
this entity surface form:
Republic Building
this entity surface form:
The Peoples Gas Building
this entity surface form:
Leiter II Building
this entity surface form:
Leiter II Building