Patent Office Building (Washington, D.C.)
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The Patent Office Building in Washington, D.C. is a prominent 19th-century Greek Revival landmark that has housed various federal institutions and now contains the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery.
All labels observed (5)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T384481 — 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: Patent Office Building (Washington, D.C.) Context triple: [Robert Mills, notableWork, Patent Office Building (Washington, D.C.)]
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A.
J. Edgar Hoover Building
The J. Edgar Hoover Building is a large Brutalist-style office complex in Washington, D.C., that serves as the main headquarters of the FBI.
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B.
John Adams Building
The John Adams Building is one of the main Library of Congress structures in Washington, D.C., known for its Art Deco architecture and extensive research collections.
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C.
Smithsonian Institution Building
The Smithsonian Institution Building, often called "The Castle," is a distinctive red sandstone landmark on the National Mall that serves as the historic headquarters and visitor center of the Smithsonian Institution.
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D.
National Academy of Sciences Building
The National Academy of Sciences Building is a historic Beaux-Arts landmark in Washington, D.C., serving as the headquarters and principal meeting place of the National Academy of Sciences.
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E.
James Madison Memorial Building
The James Madison Memorial Building is one of the main buildings of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., serving as a major research and office facility and as the official memorial to the fourth U.S. president, James Madison.
- 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: Patent Office Building (Washington, D.C.) Target entity description: The Patent Office Building in Washington, D.C. is a prominent 19th-century Greek Revival landmark that has housed various federal institutions and now contains the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery.
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A.
J. Edgar Hoover Building
The J. Edgar Hoover Building is a large Brutalist-style office complex in Washington, D.C., that serves as the main headquarters of the FBI.
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B.
John Adams Building
The John Adams Building is one of the main Library of Congress structures in Washington, D.C., known for its Art Deco architecture and extensive research collections.
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C.
Smithsonian Institution Building
The Smithsonian Institution Building, often called "The Castle," is a distinctive red sandstone landmark on the National Mall that serves as the historic headquarters and visitor center of the Smithsonian Institution.
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D.
National Academy of Sciences Building
The National Academy of Sciences Building is a historic Beaux-Arts landmark in Washington, D.C., serving as the headquarters and principal meeting place of the National Academy of Sciences.
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E.
James Madison Memorial Building
The James Madison Memorial Building is one of the main buildings of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., serving as a major research and office facility and as the official memorial to the fourth U.S. president, James Madison.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Patent Office Building (Washington, D.C.) Description of subject: The Patent Office Building in Washington, D.C. is a prominent 19th-century Greek Revival landmark that has housed various federal institutions and now contains the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Old Patent Office Building (Washington, D.C.)
this entity surface form:
Old Patent Office Building
this entity surface form:
Old Patent Office Building
Old Patent Office Building (now part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery)
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originalFunction
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Patent Office Building (Washington, D.C.)
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subject surface form:
Old Patent Office Building
this entity surface form:
United States Patent Office headquarters
Patent Office Building (Washington, D.C.)
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alsoKnownAs
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Patent Office Building (Washington, D.C.)
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this entity surface form:
Old Patent Office Building
National Historic Landmark Old Patent Office Building
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originalFunction
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Patent Office Building (Washington, D.C.)
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subject surface form:
Old Patent Office Building
this entity surface form:
United States Patent Office headquarters
National Historic Landmark Old Patent Office Building
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alsoKnownAs
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Patent Office Building (Washington, D.C.)
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subject surface form:
Old Patent Office Building
this entity surface form:
Patent Office Building