Octagon House
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Octagon House is a historic early-19th-century residence in Washington, D.C., notable for its unique octagonal design and its role as a temporary executive mansion after the burning of the White House in 1814.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Octagon House canonical | 3 |
| The Octagon House: A Home for All | 1 |
| octagon house movement | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2230708 — 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: Octagon House Context triple: [Octagon House alterations (Washington, D.C.), location, Octagon House]
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A.
Cupola House
Cupola House is a historic 18th-century Georgian-style residence and landmark in Edenton, North Carolina, noted for its distinctive rooftop cupola and well-preserved colonial architecture.
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B.
Ham House
Ham House is a 17th-century Stuart mansion on the River Thames renowned for its well-preserved period interiors and formal gardens.
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C.
Henry House
Henry House is a historic home and key landmark on the Manassas National Battlefield in Virginia, associated with major Civil War fighting.
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D.
Blake House
Blake House is a historic residence and notable landmark located in the City of Fairfax, Virginia.
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E.
Ochre Court
Ochre Court is a grand Gilded Age mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, renowned for its elaborate French chateau–style architecture and role as a symbol of America’s turn-of-the-century opulence.
- 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: Octagon House Target entity description: Octagon House is a historic early-19th-century residence in Washington, D.C., notable for its unique octagonal design and its role as a temporary executive mansion after the burning of the White House in 1814.
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A.
Cupola House
Cupola House is a historic 18th-century Georgian-style residence and landmark in Edenton, North Carolina, noted for its distinctive rooftop cupola and well-preserved colonial architecture.
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B.
Ham House
Ham House is a 17th-century Stuart mansion on the River Thames renowned for its well-preserved period interiors and formal gardens.
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C.
Henry House
Henry House is a historic home and key landmark on the Manassas National Battlefield in Virginia, associated with major Civil War fighting.
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D.
Blake House
Blake House is a historic residence and notable landmark located in the City of Fairfax, Virginia.
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E.
Ochre Court
Ochre Court is a grand Gilded Age mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, renowned for its elaborate French chateau–style architecture and role as a symbol of America’s turn-of-the-century opulence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Octagon House Description of subject: Octagon House is a historic early-19th-century residence in Washington, D.C., notable for its unique octagonal design and its role as a temporary executive mansion after the burning of the White House in 1814.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Octagon House
linked to: Octagon House