Dirksen Federal Building
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The Dirksen Federal Building is a major federal office skyscraper in Chicago that houses U.S. courts and government agencies as part of the city’s downtown civic center complex.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dirksen Federal Building canonical | 3 |
| John C. Kluczynski Federal Building | 1 |
| Kluczynski Federal Building | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T593411 — 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: Dirksen Federal Building Context triple: [Loop, hasGovernmentBody, Dirksen Federal Building]
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A.
Robert C. Weaver Federal Building
The Robert C. Weaver Federal Building is a modernist federal office building in Washington, D.C., that serves as the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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B.
William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building
The William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building is a historic government complex in Washington, D.C., that houses major federal offices and serves as the central workplace for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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C.
Herbert C. Hoover Building
The Herbert C. Hoover Building is a prominent federal office building in Washington, D.C., best known as the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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D.
Lewis F. Powell Jr. United States Courthouse
The Lewis F. Powell Jr. United States Courthouse is a historic federal courthouse in Richmond, Virginia, named after Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr.
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E.
Court of Appeals Hall
Court of Appeals Hall is the historic courthouse in Albany, New York, that serves as the home of the state's highest court.
- 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: Dirksen Federal Building Target entity description: The Dirksen Federal Building is a major federal office skyscraper in Chicago that houses U.S. courts and government agencies as part of the city’s downtown civic center complex.
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A.
Robert C. Weaver Federal Building
The Robert C. Weaver Federal Building is a modernist federal office building in Washington, D.C., that serves as the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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B.
William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building
The William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building is a historic government complex in Washington, D.C., that houses major federal offices and serves as the central workplace for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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C.
Herbert C. Hoover Building
The Herbert C. Hoover Building is a prominent federal office building in Washington, D.C., best known as the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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D.
Lewis F. Powell Jr. United States Courthouse
The Lewis F. Powell Jr. United States Courthouse is a historic federal courthouse in Richmond, Virginia, named after Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr.
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E.
Court of Appeals Hall
Court of Appeals Hall is the historic courthouse in Albany, New York, that serves as the home of the state's highest court.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
courthouse building
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federal office building ⓘ skyscraper ⓘ |
| architect |
Fazlur Rahman Khan
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | International Style ⓘ |
| category |
Federal courthouses of the United States
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Modernist architecture in Illinois ⓘ Skyscraper office buildings in Chicago ⓘ |
| city |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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surface form:
Chicago
|
| coordinates | 41.8783° N, 87.6297° W ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| function |
federal courthouse
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federal office building ⓘ |
| hasElevator | yes ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
elevated plaza at complex level
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rectilinear modernist façade ⓘ |
| hasParking | limited or restricted parking ⓘ |
| hasPublicAccess | yes ⓘ |
| hasUse |
administrative offices
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judicial functions ⓘ legal proceedings ⓘ |
| height | approximately 384 feet ⓘ |
| houses |
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
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United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ⓘ federal government offices ⓘ |
| inception | 1964 ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| location |
City of Chicago
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surface form:
Chicago
|
| materialUsed |
bronze-colored aluminum
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glass ⓘ steel ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Everett Dirksen
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surface form:
Everett McKinley Dirksen
|
| nearPublicTransit |
Jackson station
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Monroe station ⓘ |
| neighboringBuilding |
Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse
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surface form:
Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse Annex (courthouse complex)
Dirksen Federal Building self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Kluczynski Federal Building
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| numberOfFloors | 30 ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
U.S. General Services Administration
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surface form:
United States General Services Administration
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| partOf |
Chicago Federal Center
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Chicago Loop ⓘ downtown civic center complex ⓘ |
| securityProvider | Federal Protective Service ⓘ |
| servedBy | Chicago Transit Authority ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 219 South Dearborn Street ⓘ |
| yearCompleted | 1964 ⓘ |
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: Dirksen Federal Building Description of subject: The Dirksen Federal Building is a major federal office skyscraper in Chicago that houses U.S. courts and government agencies as part of the city’s downtown civic center complex.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
John C. Kluczynski Federal Building
Dirksen Federal Building
→
neighboringBuilding
→
Dirksen Federal Building
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Kluczynski Federal Building