Broadway–Chambers Building
E150501
The Broadway–Chambers Building is an early 20th-century New York City skyscraper renowned for its Beaux-Arts design by architect Cass Gilbert.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Broadway–Chambers Building canonical | 2 |
| Broadway–Chambers Building Company | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1202954 — 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: Broadway–Chambers Building Context triple: [Cass Gilbert, notableWork, Broadway–Chambers Building]
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A.
Johnson Building
The Johnson Building is a modernist wing of the Boston Public Library’s Copley Square main branch, known for housing its contemporary collections and public services.
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B.
Scribner Building
The Scribner Building is a historic Beaux-Arts style commercial structure in Manhattan that once housed the prominent American publishing firm Charles Scribner's Sons.
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C.
Adams Building
The Adams Building is one of the main Library of Congress buildings in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections and reading rooms.
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D.
Perelman Building
The Perelman Building is an annex of the Philadelphia Museum of Art known for its Art Deco architecture and galleries dedicated to modern and contemporary design, prints, drawings, and photography.
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E.
Flatiron Building
The Flatiron Building is a famous triangular early skyscraper in Manhattan, renowned as an iconic symbol of New York City’s architectural history.
- 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: Broadway–Chambers Building Target entity description: The Broadway–Chambers Building is an early 20th-century New York City skyscraper renowned for its Beaux-Arts design by architect Cass Gilbert.
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A.
Johnson Building
The Johnson Building is a modernist wing of the Boston Public Library’s Copley Square main branch, known for housing its contemporary collections and public services.
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B.
Scribner Building
The Scribner Building is a historic Beaux-Arts style commercial structure in Manhattan that once housed the prominent American publishing firm Charles Scribner's Sons.
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C.
Adams Building
The Adams Building is one of the main Library of Congress buildings in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections and reading rooms.
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D.
Perelman Building
The Perelman Building is an annex of the Philadelphia Museum of Art known for its Art Deco architecture and galleries dedicated to modern and contemporary design, prints, drawings, and photography.
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E.
Flatiron Building
The Flatiron Building is a famous triangular early skyscraper in Manhattan, renowned as an iconic symbol of New York City’s architectural history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Beaux-Arts building
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commercial building ⓘ office building ⓘ skyscraper ⓘ |
| architect | Cass Gilbert ⓘ |
| architecturalMovement | Beaux-Arts ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Beaux-Arts ⓘ |
| associatedArchitect | Cass Gilbert ⓘ |
| borough | Manhattan ⓘ |
| city | New York City ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1900 ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1899 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| crossStreet | Chambers Street ⓘ |
| developer |
Broadway–Chambers Building Company
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linked to:
Broadway–Chambers Building
|
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| facadeMaterial |
brick
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limestone ⓘ terra cotta ⓘ |
| floorCount | 18 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
corner entrance
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decorative spandrel panels ⓘ large ground-floor storefronts ⓘ ornamental cornice ⓘ rusticated base ⓘ setback upper stories ⓘ |
| height | approximately 190 feet ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | New York City Landmark ⓘ |
| landmarkDesignationBy | New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission ⓘ |
| landmarkDesignationReason |
architectural significance
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association with architect Cass Gilbert ⓘ |
| location |
Manhattan, New York City
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New York, United States ⓘ |
| neighborhood | Tribeca ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Beaux-Arts ornamentation
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corner site at Broadway and Chambers Street ⓘ early use of polychromatic glazed terra cotta ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1900 ⓘ |
| originalFunction | speculative office building ⓘ |
| partOf |
Lower Manhattan skyline
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linked to:
Lower Manhattan
|
| significance |
early major New York commission for Cass Gilbert
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example of early skyscraper cladding in terra cotta ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 277 Broadway ⓘ |
| structuralSystem | steel frame ⓘ |
| use |
office
ⓘ
retail ⓘ |
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: Broadway–Chambers Building Description of subject: The Broadway–Chambers Building is an early 20th-century New York City skyscraper renowned for its Beaux-Arts design by architect Cass Gilbert.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Broadway–Chambers Building