subject to Height of Buildings Act of 1910
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The subject to Height of Buildings Act of 1910 is a legal framework that strictly limits building heights in Washington, D.C., preserving the city’s low-rise skyline and the visual prominence of its monuments and federal structures.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Height of Buildings Act of 1910 | 1 |
| subject to Height of Buildings Act of 1910 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1265160 — 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: subject to Height of Buildings Act of 1910 Context triple: [Downtown Washington, D.C., hasBuildingHeightRegulation, subject to Height of Buildings Act of 1910]
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A.
TAC Building
The TAC Building is a major research and educational facility within the Yale School of Medicine campus.
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B.
Regal Building
Regal Building is a historic commercial and cultural landmark in New Delhi, India, known for its colonial-era architecture and prominent location in Connaught Place.
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C.
Central Place Tower
Central Place Tower is a prominent mixed-use skyscraper in the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, known for its office space, residential units, and observation deck with views of the Washington, D.C. skyline.
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D.
Trophy Building
The Trophy Building is a structure at Elvis Presley's Graceland estate that showcases his awards, memorabilia, and personal artifacts.
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E.
Ontario Tower
Ontario Tower is a prominent commercial and residential skyscraper located in Dubai’s Business Bay district.
- 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: subject to Height of Buildings Act of 1910 Target entity description: The subject to Height of Buildings Act of 1910 is a legal framework that strictly limits building heights in Washington, D.C., preserving the city’s low-rise skyline and the visual prominence of its monuments and federal structures.
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A.
TAC Building
The TAC Building is a major research and educational facility within the Yale School of Medicine campus.
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B.
Regal Building
Regal Building is a historic commercial and cultural landmark in New Delhi, India, known for its colonial-era architecture and prominent location in Connaught Place.
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C.
Central Place Tower
Central Place Tower is a prominent mixed-use skyscraper in the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, known for its office space, residential units, and observation deck with views of the Washington, D.C. skyline.
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D.
Trophy Building
The Trophy Building is a structure at Elvis Presley's Graceland estate that showcases his awards, memorabilia, and personal artifacts.
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E.
Ontario Tower
Ontario Tower is a prominent commercial and residential skyscraper located in Dubai’s Business Bay district.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States federal law
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building height regulation ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
maintain views of the U.S. Capitol
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maintain views of the Washington Monument ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
commercial buildings in Washington, D.C.
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federal district core of Washington, D.C. ⓘ residential buildings in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| basedOn | street width ⓘ |
| codifiedIn |
D.C. Code
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linked to:
Code of the District of Columbia
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| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateEnacted | June 1, 1910 ⓘ |
| debatedBy |
preservationists
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real estate developers ⓘ urban planners ⓘ |
| enactedBy | United States Congress ⓘ |
| enforcedBy |
District of Columbia government
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linked to:
Government of the District of Columbia
federal oversight bodies ⓘ |
| exemption | certain federal buildings ⓘ |
| federalDistrict | District of Columbia ⓘ |
| governs |
height of private buildings in Washington, D.C.
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height of public buildings in Washington, D.C. ⓘ vertical scale of development in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| hasEffect |
maintains relatively uniform building heights in Washington, D.C.
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prevents construction of skyscrapers in Washington, D.C. ⓘ shapes the urban form of Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| hasImpactOn |
city skyline of Washington, D.C.
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commercial office space in Washington, D.C. ⓘ housing supply in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| hasProvision |
absolute maximum building height cap in Washington, D.C.
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different height limits for residential and commercial streets ⓘ maximum height generally tied to width of adjacent street ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Height of Buildings Act of 1899 ⓘ |
| legalStatus | in force ⓘ |
| purpose |
limit building heights in Washington, D.C.
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preserve the low-rise skyline of Washington, D.C. ⓘ protect the visual prominence of federal structures in Washington, D.C. ⓘ protect the visual prominence of monuments in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| regulates | maximum building height in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
historic preservation in Washington, D.C.
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urban planning in Washington, D.C. ⓘ zoning regulations in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| replaced | Height of Buildings Act of 1899 ⓘ |
| signedBy |
William Howard Taft
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linked to:
President William Howard Taft
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| subjectTo | amendments by the United States Congress ⓘ |
| yearEnacted | 1910 ⓘ |
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: subject to Height of Buildings Act of 1910 Description of subject: The subject to Height of Buildings Act of 1910 is a legal framework that strictly limits building heights in Washington, D.C., preserving the city’s low-rise skyline and the visual prominence of its monuments and federal structures.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Downtown Washington, D.C.
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hasBuildingHeightRegulation
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subject to Height of Buildings Act of 1910
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linked to: subject to Height of Buildings Act of 1910