Boston Five Cents Savings Bank building
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The Boston Five Cents Savings Bank building is a prominent Boston structure known for its modernist architectural design by the influential firm Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Boston Five Cents Savings Bank building canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7403209 — 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: Boston Five Cents Savings Bank building Context triple: [Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles, notableWork, Boston Five Cents Savings Bank building]
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A.
Old Colony Building
The Old Colony Building is a historic Chicago skyscraper recognized as a significant example of late 19th-century commercial architecture.
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B.
Bishop Bank Building
The Bishop Bank Building is a historic commercial structure in downtown Honolulu, Hawaii, notable as one of the key 19th-century financial buildings anchoring the Merchant Street Historic District.
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C.
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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D.
Penobscot Building
The Penobscot Building is a historic Art Deco skyscraper and former tallest building in Detroit, prominently defining the city’s downtown skyline.
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E.
Johnson Building
The Johnson Building is a modernist wing of the Boston Public Library’s Copley Square main branch, known for housing its contemporary collections and public services.
- 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: Boston Five Cents Savings Bank building Target entity description: The Boston Five Cents Savings Bank building is a prominent Boston structure known for its modernist architectural design by the influential firm Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles.
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A.
Old Colony Building
The Old Colony Building is a historic Chicago skyscraper recognized as a significant example of late 19th-century commercial architecture.
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B.
Bishop Bank Building
The Bishop Bank Building is a historic commercial structure in downtown Honolulu, Hawaii, notable as one of the key 19th-century financial buildings anchoring the Merchant Street Historic District.
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C.
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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D.
Penobscot Building
The Penobscot Building is a historic Art Deco skyscraper and former tallest building in Detroit, prominently defining the city’s downtown skyline.
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E.
Johnson Building
The Johnson Building is a modernist wing of the Boston Public Library’s Copley Square main branch, known for housing its contemporary collections and public services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | office building ⓘ |
| architect | Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Brutalism
ⓘ
Modernism ⓘ |
| city |
Boston
ⓘ
linked to:
Boston, Massachusetts
|
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| designedBy | Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles ⓘ |
| hasFunction | financial services ⓘ |
| hasSignificance |
example of modernist architecture in Boston
ⓘ
work of influential Boston architectural firm Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Boston
ⓘ
linked to:
Boston, Massachusetts
Massachusetts ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| namedAfter | Boston Five Cents Savings Bank ⓘ |
| state | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| use |
bank headquarters
ⓘ
office space ⓘ |
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: Boston Five Cents Savings Bank building Description of subject: The Boston Five Cents Savings Bank building is a prominent Boston structure known for its modernist architectural design by the influential firm Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.