The Eight Octavia, San Francisco
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The Eight Octavia in San Francisco is a contemporary mixed-use residential building known for its minimalist, glass-heavy facade and urban infill design by architect Stanley Saitowitz.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Eight Octavia, San Francisco canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10939311 — 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: The Eight Octavia, San Francisco Context triple: [Stanley Saitowitz, designed, The Eight Octavia, San Francisco]
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A.
El Muni
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B.
San Francisco OEM
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C.
Los Angeles Red Cars
Los Angeles Red Cars were a historic electric streetcar and interurban railway system that once formed a vast public transit network across Los Angeles and Southern California.
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D.
Studio 880, Oakland
Studio 880 in Oakland is a professional recording studio known for hosting sessions by prominent artists and bands.
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E.
Pier and Ocean
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- 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: The Eight Octavia, San Francisco Target entity description: The Eight Octavia in San Francisco is a contemporary mixed-use residential building known for its minimalist, glass-heavy facade and urban infill design by architect Stanley Saitowitz.
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A.
El Muni
El Muni is the popular nickname of Club Social y Deportivo Municipal, a prominent Guatemalan football club with a rich domestic history and passionate fan base.
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B.
San Francisco OEM
San Francisco OEM is the city’s Office of Emergency Management, responsible for coordinating preparedness, response, and recovery efforts for disasters and major incidents in San Francisco.
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C.
Los Angeles Red Cars
Los Angeles Red Cars were a historic electric streetcar and interurban railway system that once formed a vast public transit network across Los Angeles and Southern California.
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D.
Studio 880, Oakland
Studio 880 in Oakland is a professional recording studio known for hosting sessions by prominent artists and bands.
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E.
Pier and Ocean
"Pier and Ocean" is an early abstract painting by Piet Mondrian that explores the reduction of seascape forms into a grid of vertical and horizontal lines, foreshadowing his later De Stijl style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
apartment building
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mixed-use building ⓘ residential building ⓘ |
| architect | Stanley Saitowitz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalApproach |
minimalist expression
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urban infill ⓘ |
| architecturalFirm | Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| buildingType | urban infill ⓘ |
| city | San Francisco ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| designStyle |
contemporary architecture
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minimalist architecture ⓘ |
| developmentType | infill development ⓘ |
| facadeCharacteristic | glass-heavy facade ⓘ |
| facadeMaterial | glass ⓘ |
| feature |
balconies
ⓘ
corner site exposure ⓘ large windows ⓘ minimalist exterior detailing ⓘ mixed-use ground floor ⓘ street-facing retail spaces ⓘ upper-floor residential units ⓘ |
| hasArchitect | Stanley Saitowitz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
commercial
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housing ⓘ |
| intersection | Octavia Boulevard and Market Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
San Francisco ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| neighborhood | Hayes Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contemporary mixed-use program
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minimalist, glass-heavy facade ⓘ urban infill design ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
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| streetAddress | 8 Octavia Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| use |
residential
ⓘ
retail ⓘ |
| zoningContext | urban core ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: The Eight Octavia, San Francisco Description of subject: The Eight Octavia in San Francisco is a contemporary mixed-use residential building known for its minimalist, glass-heavy facade and urban infill design by architect Stanley Saitowitz.
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