United States Courthouse, Buffalo, New York
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The United States Courthouse in Buffalo, New York is a federal judicial building that serves as a key venue for U.S. District Court proceedings in the Western District of New York.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| United States Courthouse, Buffalo, New York canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10980472 — 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: United States Courthouse, Buffalo, New York Context triple: [Michael D. Flynn, notableWork, United States Courthouse, Buffalo, New York]
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Johnson County Courthouse in Buffalo
The Johnson County Courthouse in Buffalo is the historic government building that serves as the central judicial and administrative center for Johnson County, Wyoming.
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United States Courthouse, Brooklyn, New York
The United States Courthouse in Brooklyn, New York is a federal courthouse that serves as a primary venue for major federal trials and legal proceedings in the Eastern District of New York.
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C.
Erie federal courthouse
The Erie federal courthouse is a federal judicial building in Erie, Pennsylvania, that houses proceedings of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
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D.
United States Courthouse, Islip, New York
The United States Courthouse in Islip, New York is a major federal judicial complex on Long Island, noted for its modernist architectural design by renowned architect James Ingo Freed.
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E.
New York City Federal Courthouse
New York City Federal Courthouse is a prominent federal judicial building in Manhattan that houses the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and other federal courts.
- 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: United States Courthouse, Buffalo, New York Target entity description: The United States Courthouse in Buffalo, New York is a federal judicial building that serves as a key venue for U.S. District Court proceedings in the Western District of New York.
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A.
Johnson County Courthouse in Buffalo
The Johnson County Courthouse in Buffalo is the historic government building that serves as the central judicial and administrative center for Johnson County, Wyoming.
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United States Courthouse, Brooklyn, New York
The United States Courthouse in Brooklyn, New York is a federal courthouse that serves as a primary venue for major federal trials and legal proceedings in the Eastern District of New York.
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C.
Erie federal courthouse
The Erie federal courthouse is a federal judicial building in Erie, Pennsylvania, that houses proceedings of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
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United States Courthouse, Islip, New York
The United States Courthouse in Islip, New York is a major federal judicial complex on Long Island, noted for its modernist architectural design by renowned architect James Ingo Freed.
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New York City Federal Courthouse
New York City Federal Courthouse is a prominent federal judicial building in Manhattan that houses the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and other federal courts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
federal courthouse
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government building ⓘ |
| buildingType | courthouse ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Buffalo, New York
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United States federal courthouses in New York State ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| governmentLevel | federal ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
offices for court staff
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offices for federal agencies associated with the court ⓘ offices for federal judges ⓘ trial court facility ⓘ |
| hasSecurity | federal court security measures ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Western District of New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Buffalo
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surface form:
Buffalo, New York
Erie County, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Western District of New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| managedBy | General Services Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
United States government
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surface form:
United States federal government
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| partOf | federal judiciary of the United States ⓘ |
| servesAs | venue for the United States District Court for the Western District of New York ⓘ |
| servesPopulation | residents of the Western District of New York ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
United States federal law
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rules of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York ⓘ |
| usedFor |
U.S. District Court proceedings
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bankruptcy-related proceedings ⓘ civil cases ⓘ criminal cases ⓘ federal judicial proceedings ⓘ |
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: United States Courthouse, Buffalo, New York Description of subject: The United States Courthouse in Buffalo, New York is a federal judicial building that serves as a key venue for U.S. District Court proceedings in the Western District of New York.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.