Koïfhus
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Koïfhus is a historic medieval customs and merchants’ building in Colmar, France, known as one of the city’s oldest and most significant civic monuments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Koïfhus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9407090 — 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: Koïfhus Context triple: [Koïfhus (Old Customs House), nativeName, Koïfhus]
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A.
Keringhuis
Keringhuis is the visitor and information center that explains the operation, history, and significance of the Maeslantkering storm surge barrier and Dutch flood protection.
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B.
Looshaus
Looshaus is a pioneering early modernist building in Vienna, Austria, designed by architect Adolf Loos and renowned for its radical rejection of ornament.
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C.
Driehuis
Driehuis is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland, known for its residential character and proximity to the North Sea coast and nearby dunes.
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D.
Markiezenhof
Markiezenhof is a historic late-medieval city palace and former residence of the marquises of Bergen op Zoom, now serving as a museum and cultural center in the Netherlands.
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E.
Timmerhuis
Timmerhuis is a mixed-use, modular glass-and-steel building in Rotterdam known for its stacked, pixelated form and sustainable design.
- 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: Koïfhus Target entity description: Koïfhus is a historic medieval customs and merchants’ building in Colmar, France, known as one of the city’s oldest and most significant civic monuments.
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A.
Keringhuis
Keringhuis is the visitor and information center that explains the operation, history, and significance of the Maeslantkering storm surge barrier and Dutch flood protection.
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B.
Looshaus
Looshaus is a pioneering early modernist building in Vienna, Austria, designed by architect Adolf Loos and renowned for its radical rejection of ornament.
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C.
Driehuis
Driehuis is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland, known for its residential character and proximity to the North Sea coast and nearby dunes.
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D.
Markiezenhof
Markiezenhof is a historic late-medieval city palace and former residence of the marquises of Bergen op Zoom, now serving as a museum and cultural center in the Netherlands.
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E.
Timmerhuis
Timmerhuis is a mixed-use, modular glass-and-steel building in Rotterdam known for its stacked, pixelated form and sustainable design.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
customs house
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historic building ⓘ merchants’ hall ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | medieval architecture ⓘ |
| city | Colmar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 15th century ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| currentUse |
cultural events venue
ⓘ
exhibition space ⓘ tourist site ⓘ |
| floorCount | 2 ⓘ |
| governingBody | City of Colmar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasArcade | yes ⓘ |
| hasBalcony | yes ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRegion | Alsace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricFunction |
customs office
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merchants’ exchange ⓘ warehouse ⓘ |
| hasPart |
arcaded ground floor
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roof with dormers ⓘ stair tower ⓘ upper hall ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Monument historique ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationAppliesToPart | building ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationCountry | France ⓘ |
| inception | 15th century ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Colmar
NERFINISHED
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France ⓘ Grand Est NERFINISHED ⓘ Haut-Rhin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInOldTown | Colmar old town NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material |
stone
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timber ⓘ |
| notableFor |
historic role in trade
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medieval architecture ⓘ status as civic monument ⓘ |
| publicAccess | yes ⓘ |
| region | Alsace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roofType | steep pitched roof ⓘ |
| significance |
important medieval civic monument
ⓘ
one of the oldest civic buildings in Colmar ⓘ |
| tourismType | cultural tourism ⓘ |
| usedFor |
customs
ⓘ
merchants’ activities ⓘ trade ⓘ |
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: Koïfhus Description of subject: Koïfhus is a historic medieval customs and merchants’ building in Colmar, France, known as one of the city’s oldest and most significant civic monuments.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.