Mills Building (San Francisco)
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The Mills Building in San Francisco is a historic downtown office building named for financier and philanthropist Darius Ogden Mills, reflecting his prominence in the city’s late 19th- and early 20th-century development.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mills Building (San Francisco) canonical | 1 |
| Mills Building (alterations and additions, San Francisco) | 1 |
| Mills Building annex (San Francisco) | 1 |
| Mills Building, San Francisco | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10795491 — 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: Mills Building (San Francisco) Context triple: [Darius Ogden Mills, hasHonor, Mills Building (San Francisco)]
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A.
San Francisco Municipal Railway Building
The San Francisco Municipal Railway Building is a historic civic structure in San Francisco designed in the Beaux-Arts style by architect John Bakewell Jr.
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B.
San Francisco Federal Building
The San Francisco Federal Building is a prominent contemporary government office tower in San Francisco known for its unconventional, energy-efficient design by architect Thom Mayne.
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C.
Ahmanson Building
The Ahmanson Building is a major gallery and exhibition space within the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, housing significant portions of its art collections.
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D.
San Francisco City Hall
San Francisco City Hall is a historic Beaux-Arts landmark in the city’s Civic Center, serving as the seat of government and a prominent architectural symbol of San Francisco.
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E.
Ferry Building
The Ferry Building is a historic San Francisco waterfront terminal and landmark known for its iconic clock tower and bustling marketplace of shops and eateries.
- 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: Mills Building (San Francisco) Target entity description: The Mills Building in San Francisco is a historic downtown office building named for financier and philanthropist Darius Ogden Mills, reflecting his prominence in the city’s late 19th- and early 20th-century development.
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A.
San Francisco Municipal Railway Building
The San Francisco Municipal Railway Building is a historic civic structure in San Francisco designed in the Beaux-Arts style by architect John Bakewell Jr.
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B.
San Francisco Federal Building
The San Francisco Federal Building is a prominent contemporary government office tower in San Francisco known for its unconventional, energy-efficient design by architect Thom Mayne.
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C.
Ahmanson Building
The Ahmanson Building is a major gallery and exhibition space within the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, housing significant portions of its art collections.
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D.
San Francisco City Hall
San Francisco City Hall is a historic Beaux-Arts landmark in the city’s Civic Center, serving as the seat of government and a prominent architectural symbol of San Francisco.
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E.
Ferry Building
The Ferry Building is a historic San Francisco waterfront terminal and landmark known for its iconic clock tower and bustling marketplace of shops and eateries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | office building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Beaux-Arts
ⓘ
Chicago school ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasCategory |
Buildings named after people
ⓘ
Commercial buildings in California ⓘ Historic buildings in San Francisco ⓘ Skyscraper office buildings in San Francisco ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
elevators
ⓘ
multiple stories ⓘ street-level retail spaces ⓘ |
| hasFunction | office use ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic building ⓘ |
| isInDowntown | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Financial District, San Francisco ⓘ
linked to:
Financial District (San Francisco)
San Francisco ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| material |
masonry
ⓘ
steel frame ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Darius Ogden Mills ⓘ |
| namedForPersonActiveIn |
early 20th century San Francisco development
ⓘ
late 19th century San Francisco development ⓘ |
| namedForRoleOf |
financier
ⓘ
philanthropist ⓘ |
| owner | Mills family interests ⓘ |
| partOf |
downtown San Francisco
ⓘ
linked to:
Downtown San Francisco
|
| significantFor |
association with Darius Ogden Mills
ⓘ
early skyscraper development in San Francisco ⓘ |
| use | commercial offices ⓘ |
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: Mills Building (San Francisco) Description of subject: The Mills Building in San Francisco is a historic downtown office building named for financier and philanthropist Darius Ogden Mills, reflecting his prominence in the city’s late 19th- and early 20th-century development.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Mills Building (San Francisco)