Battery Maritime Building
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The Battery Maritime Building is a historic Beaux-Arts ferry terminal in Lower Manhattan, New York City, known for its ornate green copper façade and role in harbor transportation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Battery Maritime Building canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9221607 — 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: Battery Maritime Building Context triple: [Battery Place, near, Battery Maritime Building]
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A.
Naval Dockyards
Naval Dockyards are specialized shipbuilding and maintenance facilities that support the operational readiness and logistical needs of a navy’s fleet.
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B.
Shipyard Quarters Marina
Shipyard Quarters Marina is a waterfront marina in Boston that provides dockage and boating services along the historic Charlestown Navy Yard area.
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C.
Normandie dry dock
The Normandie dry dock was a massive naval repair facility in Saint-Nazaire, France, and a strategic target in World War II because it was one of the few docks capable of servicing Germany’s largest battleships.
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D.
Eldean Shipyard
Eldean Shipyard is a full-service marina and boatyard located on Lake Macatawa in Michigan, known for its docking, storage, and marine maintenance services.
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E.
Dry Dock No. 1
Dry Dock No. 1 is a historic 19th-century stone dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, notable as one of the oldest surviving naval dry docks in the United States.
- 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: Battery Maritime Building Target entity description: The Battery Maritime Building is a historic Beaux-Arts ferry terminal in Lower Manhattan, New York City, known for its ornate green copper façade and role in harbor transportation.
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A.
Naval Dockyards
Naval Dockyards are specialized shipbuilding and maintenance facilities that support the operational readiness and logistical needs of a navy’s fleet.
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B.
Shipyard Quarters Marina
Shipyard Quarters Marina is a waterfront marina in Boston that provides dockage and boating services along the historic Charlestown Navy Yard area.
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C.
Normandie dry dock
The Normandie dry dock was a massive naval repair facility in Saint-Nazaire, France, and a strategic target in World War II because it was one of the few docks capable of servicing Germany’s largest battleships.
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D.
Eldean Shipyard
Eldean Shipyard is a full-service marina and boatyard located on Lake Macatawa in Michigan, known for its docking, storage, and marine maintenance services.
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E.
Dry Dock No. 1
Dry Dock No. 1 is a historic 19th-century stone dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, notable as one of the oldest surviving naval dry docks in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Beaux-Arts architecture
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ferry terminal ⓘ historic building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Beaux-Arts ⓘ |
| borough | Manhattan ⓘ |
| category |
Beaux-Arts architecture in New York City
ⓘ
Buildings and structures in Manhattan ⓘ Ferry terminals in New York City ⓘ |
| city | New York City ⓘ |
| constructionMaterial |
masonry
ⓘ
steel ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| facadeColor | green ⓘ |
| faces | Upper New York Bay ⓘ |
| function |
ferry terminal
ⓘ
harbor transportation hub ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
decorative ironwork
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ferry slips ⓘ large arched openings ⓘ ornate green copper façade ⓘ |
| hasStructureType | pier building ⓘ |
| hasViewOf |
Governors Island
ⓘ
Statue of Liberty area ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic structure ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
New York City waterfront
ⓘ
South Ferry area ⓘ
linked to:
South Ferry
|
| locatedIn |
Lower Manhattan
ⓘ
Manhattan ⓘ New York City ⓘ New York State ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locatedOn | South Street ⓘ |
| material | copper ⓘ |
| near |
Battery Park
ⓘ
linked to:
Battery Park, Manhattan
South Ferry subway station ⓘ Whitehall Terminal ⓘ |
| neighborhood | Financial District ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Beaux-Arts design
ⓘ
ornate green copper façade ⓘ role in New York harbor transportation ⓘ |
| overlooks | New York Harbor ⓘ |
| region |
Lower Manhattan waterfront
ⓘ
linked to:
Manhattan waterfront
|
| role | gateway to New York Harbor ⓘ |
| roofMaterial | metal ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 10 South Street ⓘ |
| transportationMode | ferry ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter transportation
ⓘ
passenger ferry service ⓘ |
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: Battery Maritime Building Description of subject: The Battery Maritime Building is a historic Beaux-Arts ferry terminal in Lower Manhattan, New York City, known for its ornate green copper façade and role in harbor transportation.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.