Porteous Building
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The Porteous Building is the historic flagship facility of the Maine College of Art & Design in downtown Portland, Maine, housing its studios, classrooms, and galleries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Porteous Building canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T645313 — 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: Porteous Building Context triple: [Maine College of Art & Design, hasBuilding, Porteous Building]
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A.
Michael Sadler Building
The Michael Sadler Building is a prominent academic and lecture complex at the University of Leeds, named after the influential educationalist Sir Michael Sadler.
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B.
William Stone Building
The William Stone Building is a prominent modernist residential and teaching block at Peterhouse, Cambridge, known for its distinctive architectural style and views over the college gardens.
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C.
Glasgow City Chambers
Glasgow City Chambers is a grand Victorian-era municipal building in Glasgow, Scotland, serving as the headquarters of the city council and a prominent symbol of the city's civic pride.
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D.
Roger Stevens Building
The Roger Stevens Building is a prominent modernist lecture theatre complex at the University of Leeds, noted for its distinctive brutalist architecture and central role in campus teaching.
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E.
Queen Victoria Building
The Queen Victoria Building is a grand late-19th-century Romanesque Revival shopping arcade and heritage landmark in central Sydney, renowned for its ornate architecture and restored interior.
- 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: Porteous Building Target entity description: The Porteous Building is the historic flagship facility of the Maine College of Art & Design in downtown Portland, Maine, housing its studios, classrooms, and galleries.
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A.
Michael Sadler Building
The Michael Sadler Building is a prominent academic and lecture complex at the University of Leeds, named after the influential educationalist Sir Michael Sadler.
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B.
William Stone Building
The William Stone Building is a prominent modernist residential and teaching block at Peterhouse, Cambridge, known for its distinctive architectural style and views over the college gardens.
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C.
Glasgow City Chambers
Glasgow City Chambers is a grand Victorian-era municipal building in Glasgow, Scotland, serving as the headquarters of the city council and a prominent symbol of the city's civic pride.
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D.
Roger Stevens Building
The Roger Stevens Building is a prominent modernist lecture theatre complex at the University of Leeds, noted for its distinctive brutalist architecture and central role in campus teaching.
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E.
Queen Victoria Building
The Queen Victoria Building is a grand late-19th-century Romanesque Revival shopping arcade and heritage landmark in central Sydney, renowned for its ornate architecture and restored interior.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building
ⓘ
college building ⓘ historic building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Art Deco ⓘ |
| city | Portland ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| flagshipFacilityOf | Maine College of Art & Design ⓘ |
| formerOccupant | Porteous, Mitchell & Braun department store ⓘ |
| formerUse | department store ⓘ |
| function |
art school facility
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classroom space ⓘ educational building ⓘ gallery space ⓘ studio space ⓘ |
| hasGallery |
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design
ⓘ
linked to:
Maine College of Art & Design
|
| hasUse |
administrative offices of Maine College of Art & Design
ⓘ
exhibition space ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic structure ⓘ |
| houses |
classrooms of Maine College of Art & Design
ⓘ
galleries of Maine College of Art & Design ⓘ studios of Maine College of Art & Design ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cumberland County, Maine
ⓘ
Portland, Maine ⓘ downtown Portland, Maine ⓘ
linked to:
Portland, Maine
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| name | Porteous Building ⓘ |
| occupant | Maine College of Art & Design ⓘ |
| partOf |
Arts District of Portland, Maine
ⓘ
linked to:
Arts District, Portland, Maine
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| renovatedForUseBy | Maine College of Art & Design ⓘ |
| state | Maine ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 522 Congress Street ⓘ |
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: Porteous Building Description of subject: The Porteous Building is the historic flagship facility of the Maine College of Art & Design in downtown Portland, Maine, housing its studios, classrooms, and galleries.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.