Tom Kelly Bottle House
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Tom Kelly Bottle House is a historic early-1900s home in the ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada, uniquely constructed from thousands of glass bottles and now preserved as a notable roadside attraction.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bottle House | 2 |
| Bottle House in Rhyolite | 1 |
| Tom Kelly Bottle House canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12846425 — 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: Tom Kelly Bottle House Context triple: [Rhyolite, Nevada, hasAttraction, Tom Kelly Bottle House]
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A.
Cannonball House
Cannonball House is a historic 19th-century home and museum in Macon, Georgia, noted for damage it sustained during the American Civil War.
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B.
Kinnell House
Kinnell House is a historic Scottish residence that served for centuries as the ancestral home of Clan MacNab.
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C.
Dibble House
Dibble House is a modest 19th-century Carpenter Gothic-style farmhouse in Eldon, Iowa, best known as the real-life backdrop that inspired Grant Wood’s iconic painting "American Gothic."
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D.
Stone House
Stone House is a historic Civil War-era structure on the Manassas battlefield in Virginia that served as a field hospital during the First and Second Battles of Bull Run.
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E.
Stone House
Stone House is a notable late Gothic burgher house and historical monument in Kutná Hora, Czech Republic, known for its richly decorated stone façade and role in the town’s medieval heritage.
- 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: Tom Kelly Bottle House Target entity description: Tom Kelly Bottle House is a historic early-1900s home in the ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada, uniquely constructed from thousands of glass bottles and now preserved as a notable roadside attraction.
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A.
Cannonball House
Cannonball House is a historic 19th-century home and museum in Macon, Georgia, noted for damage it sustained during the American Civil War.
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B.
Kinnell House
Kinnell House is a historic Scottish residence that served for centuries as the ancestral home of Clan MacNab.
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C.
Dibble House
Dibble House is a modest 19th-century Carpenter Gothic-style farmhouse in Eldon, Iowa, best known as the real-life backdrop that inspired Grant Wood’s iconic painting "American Gothic."
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D.
Stone House
Stone House is a historic Civil War-era structure on the Manassas battlefield in Virginia that served as a field hospital during the First and Second Battles of Bull Run.
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E.
Stone House
Stone House is a notable late Gothic burgher house and historical monument in Kutná Hora, Czech Republic, known for its richly decorated stone façade and role in the town’s medieval heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bottle house
ⓘ
historic house ⓘ roadside attraction ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| architect | Tom Kelly ⓘ |
| associatedWithIndustry | mining ⓘ |
| buildingFunction | residence ⓘ |
| builtBy | Tom Kelly ⓘ |
| builtInPeriod | early 1900s ⓘ |
| constructionEndDate | 1906 ⓘ |
| constructionMaterial |
glass bottles
ⓘ
mortar ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1905 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| currentUse | tourist attraction ⓘ |
| era | American Old West mining era ⓘ |
| hasApproximateConstructionYear | 1906 ⓘ |
| hasAttractionCategory |
heritage tourism site
ⓘ
historic roadside attraction ⓘ |
| hasBuildingStyle | vernacular architecture ⓘ |
| hasBuildingType | house ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | example of bottle house architecture in the American West ⓘ |
| hasFloorCount | 1 ⓘ |
| hasMaterialSource | discarded glass bottles from the town ⓘ |
| hasOwnerType | private or managed for tourism ⓘ |
| hasPreservationEfforts | stabilization and restoration for visitors ⓘ |
| hasSetting | abandoned mining town landscape ⓘ |
| hasTouristAccess | true ⓘ |
| hasWallMaterial | glass bottles ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic structure ⓘ |
| isMajorAttractionOf | Rhyolite, Nevada ⓘ |
| isNearby |
Death Valley National Park
ⓘ
linked to:
Death Valley National Park (partial)
|
| locatedIn |
Nevada
ⓘ
Nye County, Nevada ⓘ
linked to:
Nye County
Rhyolite, Nevada ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| namedAfter | Tom Kelly ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being constructed from thousands of glass bottles
ⓘ
unique bottle-wall construction ⓘ |
| numberOfStories | 1 ⓘ |
| partOf | Rhyolite ghost town historic remains ⓘ |
| preservationStatus | preserved ⓘ |
| region |
American Southwest
ⓘ
linked to:
southwestern United States
Mojave Desert ⓘ |
| tourismType | roadside attraction ⓘ |
| townType | ghost town ⓘ |
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: Tom Kelly Bottle House Description of subject: Tom Kelly Bottle House is a historic early-1900s home in the ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada, uniquely constructed from thousands of glass bottles and now preserved as a notable roadside attraction.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tom Kelly Bottle House
linked to: Tom Kelly Bottle House
linked to: Tom Kelly Bottle House