McNear Building
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The McNear Building is a historic commercial structure in downtown Petaluma, California, known for its distinctive 19th-century architecture and role in the city’s early business district.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| McNear Building canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11240022 — 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: McNear Building Context triple: [Petaluma, California, hasHistoricBuilding, McNear Building]
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A.
T.R. Foster Building
The T.R. Foster Building is a historic commercial structure located within Honolulu’s Merchant Street Historic District, notable for its 19th-century architecture and association with Hawaii’s early business development.
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B.
S.S. Pierce Building
The S.S. Pierce Building is a historic commercial structure in Brookline, Massachusetts, known for its distinctive architecture and prominent clock tower that make it a defining feature of Coolidge Corner.
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C.
Ricketts Building
The Ricketts Building is an academic facility at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that houses classrooms, laboratories, and offices for engineering and science programs.
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D.
Buckwalter Building
The Buckwalter Building is a historic commercial structure located in downtown West Chester, Pennsylvania, recognized for its architectural and local heritage significance.
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E.
McClurg Building
The McClurg Building is a historic Chicago commercial structure recognized as a significant example of early skyscraper design by the architectural firm Holabird & Roche.
- 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: McNear Building Target entity description: The McNear Building is a historic commercial structure in downtown Petaluma, California, known for its distinctive 19th-century architecture and role in the city’s early business district.
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A.
T.R. Foster Building
The T.R. Foster Building is a historic commercial structure located within Honolulu’s Merchant Street Historic District, notable for its 19th-century architecture and association with Hawaii’s early business development.
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B.
S.S. Pierce Building
The S.S. Pierce Building is a historic commercial structure in Brookline, Massachusetts, known for its distinctive architecture and prominent clock tower that make it a defining feature of Coolidge Corner.
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C.
Ricketts Building
The Ricketts Building is an academic facility at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that houses classrooms, laboratories, and offices for engineering and science programs.
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D.
Buckwalter Building
The Buckwalter Building is a historic commercial structure located in downtown West Chester, Pennsylvania, recognized for its architectural and local heritage significance.
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E.
McClurg Building
The McClurg Building is a historic Chicago commercial structure recognized as a significant example of early skyscraper design by the architectural firm Holabird & Roche.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial structure
ⓘ
historic commercial building ⓘ historic property ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | 19th-century commercial architecture ⓘ |
| city |
Petaluma
ⓘ
linked to:
Petaluma, California
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| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| hasCharacteristic | distinctive 19th-century architecture ⓘ |
| hasFunction | commercial use ⓘ |
| hasRole | role in Petaluma’s early business district ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic building in Petaluma ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | local historic preservation interest ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Petaluma, California ⓘ Sonoma County, California ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
downtown Petaluma ⓘ |
| partOf |
Petaluma downtown business district
ⓘ
linked to:
Downtown Petaluma Historic District
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| state |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
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| usedFor |
business activities
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retail and commercial purposes ⓘ |
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: McNear Building Description of subject: The McNear Building is a historic commercial structure in downtown Petaluma, California, known for its distinctive 19th-century architecture and role in the city’s early business district.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.