First United Building
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First United Building is a historic Art Deco commercial building in Manila, Philippines, known as one of the iconic prewar landmarks along Escolta Street.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| First United Building canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10670621 — 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: First United Building Context triple: [Escolta Street, hasBuilding, First United Building]
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A.
First National Bank
First National Bank is a major South African financial institution offering a wide range of banking and financial services to individuals and businesses.
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B.
First National Bank
First National Bank is a historic American banking institution whose name has been used for prominent landmark buildings such as the iconic tower in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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C.
Third National Bank
Third National Bank was a predecessor financial institution that eventually became part of what is now known as Fifth Third Bank.
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D.
Fifth National Bank
Fifth National Bank was a predecessor financial institution that eventually became part of what is now known as Fifth Third Bank.
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E.
The First National Bank of Chicago
The First National Bank of Chicago was a major Chicago-based commercial bank that grew into one of the largest and most influential financial institutions in the United States before its succession by First Chicago NBD.
- 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: First United Building Target entity description: First United Building is a historic Art Deco commercial building in Manila, Philippines, known as one of the iconic prewar landmarks along Escolta Street.
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A.
First National Bank
First National Bank is a major South African financial institution offering a wide range of banking and financial services to individuals and businesses.
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B.
First National Bank
First National Bank is a historic American banking institution whose name has been used for prominent landmark buildings such as the iconic tower in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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C.
Third National Bank
Third National Bank was a predecessor financial institution that eventually became part of what is now known as Fifth Third Bank.
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D.
Fifth National Bank
Fifth National Bank was a predecessor financial institution that eventually became part of what is now known as Fifth Third Bank.
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E.
The First National Bank of Chicago
The First National Bank of Chicago was a major Chicago-based commercial bank that grew into one of the largest and most influential financial institutions in the United States before its succession by First Chicago NBD.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial building
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heritage building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Art Deco ⓘ |
| city | Manila ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Philippines ⓘ |
| district | Binondo ⓘ |
| era | pre–World War II ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
geometric Art Deco motifs
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multiple stories ⓘ ornamental façade ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic building ⓘ |
| locatedInHistoricArea | Old Manila ⓘ |
| location |
Binondo
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Escolta Street ⓘ Manila ⓘ Philippines ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Art Deco façade
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being an iconic landmark on Escolta Street ⓘ prewar architecture ⓘ |
| partOf | Escolta heritage district ⓘ |
| region | Metro Manila ⓘ |
| significance |
example of prewar commercial architecture in Manila
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landmark of Manila’s old business district ⓘ |
| street | Escolta Street ⓘ |
| use |
commercial
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office spaces ⓘ retail spaces ⓘ |
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: First United Building Description of subject: First United Building is a historic Art Deco commercial building in Manila, Philippines, known as one of the iconic prewar landmarks along Escolta Street.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.