Custom House Block
E1025273
Custom House Block is a historic waterfront commercial building in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its 19th-century granite architecture and role in the city’s maritime trade.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Custom House Block canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13151753 — 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: Custom House Block Context triple: [Congress Street, hasBuildingAlong, Custom House Block]
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A.
Custom House
Custom House is a historic adobe building in Monterey, California, notable as the oldest government building in the state and a key site in early California trade and governance.
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B.
Custom House
Custom House is a historic government building in Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands, notable for its colonial-era architecture and role in the island’s maritime trade and administration.
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C.
Custom House
Custom House is a district in the London Borough of Newham, in East London, known for its proximity to the ExCeL London exhibition centre and the Royal Docks.
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D.
Custom House
Custom House is a publishing imprint of William Morrow and Company known for releasing narrative nonfiction and literary works.
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E.
Breezeblocks
"Breezeblocks" is a 2012 indie rock song by British band Alt‑J, known for its off-kilter rhythms, darkly playful lyrics, and distinctive, experimental production.
- 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: Custom House Block Target entity description: Custom House Block is a historic waterfront commercial building in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its 19th-century granite architecture and role in the city’s maritime trade.
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A.
Custom House
Custom House is a historic adobe building in Monterey, California, notable as the oldest government building in the state and a key site in early California trade and governance.
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B.
Custom House
Custom House is a historic government building in Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands, notable for its colonial-era architecture and role in the island’s maritime trade and administration.
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C.
Custom House
Custom House is a district in the London Borough of Newham, in East London, known for its proximity to the ExCeL London exhibition centre and the Royal Docks.
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D.
Custom House
Custom House is a publishing imprint of William Morrow and Company known for releasing narrative nonfiction and literary works.
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E.
Breezeblocks
"Breezeblocks" is a 2012 indie rock song by British band Alt‑J, known for its off-kilter rhythms, darkly playful lyrics, and distinctive, experimental production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century building
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historic commercial building ⓘ waterfront building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | granite commercial block ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Boston maritime trade ⓘ |
| city |
Boston
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linked to:
Boston, Massachusetts
|
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasCategory |
19th-century architecture in the United States
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Commercial buildings in Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ Historic district contributing properties in Massachusetts ⓘ Waterfront buildings and structures in Massachusetts ⓘ |
| hasWaterfront | Boston Harbor ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic building in Boston ⓘ |
| historicFunction | maritime trade-related commerce ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Boston waterfront
ⓘ
Massachusetts ⓘ |
| location | Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| material | granite ⓘ |
| notableFor |
19th-century granite architecture
ⓘ
role in Boston’s maritime trade ⓘ |
| partOf | historic waterfront district of Boston ⓘ |
| region | New England ⓘ |
| state | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| use | commercial ⓘ |
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: Custom House Block Description of subject: Custom House Block is a historic waterfront commercial building in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its 19th-century granite architecture and role in the city’s maritime trade.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.