James A. Thomas Center (closed)
E21946
The James A. Thomas Center was a jail facility on New York City’s Rikers Island complex that has since been closed.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James A. Thomas Center (closed) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T168721 — 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: James A. Thomas Center (closed) Context triple: [Rikers Island, hasFacility, James A. Thomas Center (closed)]
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A.
Robert N. Davoren Center
The Robert N. Davoren Center is a jail facility on Rikers Island in New York City that primarily houses adolescent and young adult detainees.
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B.
George R. Vierno Center
The George R. Vierno Center is a large jail facility on New York City's Rikers Island complex that primarily houses male detainees in a high-security environment.
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C.
John A. Wilson Building
The John A. Wilson Building is a historic government office building in Washington, D.C., that houses the city’s primary municipal and legislative offices.
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D.
Spangler Center
Spangler Center is a central student and community hub at Harvard Business School that houses dining, study, and social spaces for MBA students.
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E.
Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center
Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center is MIT’s primary athletics and recreation complex, featuring facilities for varsity sports, fitness, and aquatics on the Cambridge campus.
- 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: James A. Thomas Center (closed) Target entity description: The James A. Thomas Center was a jail facility on New York City’s Rikers Island complex that has since been closed.
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A.
Robert N. Davoren Center
The Robert N. Davoren Center is a jail facility on Rikers Island in New York City that primarily houses adolescent and young adult detainees.
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B.
George R. Vierno Center
The George R. Vierno Center is a large jail facility on New York City's Rikers Island complex that primarily houses male detainees in a high-security environment.
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C.
John A. Wilson Building
The John A. Wilson Building is a historic government office building in Washington, D.C., that houses the city’s primary municipal and legislative offices.
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D.
Spangler Center
Spangler Center is a central student and community hub at Harvard Business School that houses dining, study, and social spaces for MBA students.
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E.
Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center
Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center is MIT’s primary athletics and recreation complex, featuring facilities for varsity sports, fitness, and aquatics on the Cambridge campus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building
ⓘ
correctional facility ⓘ jail facility ⓘ |
| category |
Former prison in New York City
ⓘ
Rikers Island building ⓘ
linked to:
Rikers Island
|
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasUse | detention of inmates ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | New York City ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New York City
ⓘ
New York State ⓘ
linked to:
New York
Rikers Island ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Borough of the Bronx
ⓘ
linked to:
The Bronx
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
East River island
ⓘ
linked to:
Roosevelt Island
|
| namedAfter | James A. Thomas ⓘ |
| operatedBy | New York City Department of Correction ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
City of New York
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
|
| partOf |
New York City jail system
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City Department of Correction
Rikers Island jail complex ⓘ
linked to:
Rikers Island
|
| securityClassification | jail ⓘ |
| status | closed ⓘ |
| usedFor |
pre-trial detention
ⓘ
short-term incarceration ⓘ |
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: James A. Thomas Center (closed) Description of subject: The James A. Thomas Center was a jail facility on New York City’s Rikers Island complex that has since been closed.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.