Provident Life & Trust Company building (demolished)
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The Provident Life & Trust Company building was a prominent 19th-century Philadelphia bank and office structure celebrated as one of architect Frank Furness’s most innovative and influential works before its demolition.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Provident Life & Trust Company building (demolished) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2294165 — 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: Provident Life & Trust Company building (demolished) Context triple: [Frank Furness, designed, Provident Life & Trust Company building (demolished)]
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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.
Savannah Bank and Trust Building
The Savannah Bank and Trust Building is a historic early 20th-century commercial high-rise in downtown Savannah, Georgia, noted for its classical architectural detailing and prominence in the city’s financial district.
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C.
McClurg Building
The McClurg Building is a historic Chicago commercial structure recognized as a significant example of early skyscraper design by the architectural firm Holabird & Roche.
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D.
The Howard Building
The Howard Building is a prominent multi-purpose events and conference venue within Downing College, part of the University of Cambridge.
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E.
May Company Building
The May Company Building is a historic Streamline Moderne department store structure on Los Angeles’s Miracle Mile, now known for housing the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
- 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: Provident Life & Trust Company building (demolished) Target entity description: The Provident Life & Trust Company building was a prominent 19th-century Philadelphia bank and office structure celebrated as one of architect Frank Furness’s most innovative and influential works before its demolition.
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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.
Savannah Bank and Trust Building
The Savannah Bank and Trust Building is a historic early 20th-century commercial high-rise in downtown Savannah, Georgia, noted for its classical architectural detailing and prominence in the city’s financial district.
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C.
McClurg Building
The McClurg Building is a historic Chicago commercial structure recognized as a significant example of early skyscraper design by the architectural firm Holabird & Roche.
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D.
The Howard Building
The Howard Building is a prominent multi-purpose events and conference venue within Downing College, part of the University of Cambridge.
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E.
May Company Building
The May Company Building is a historic Streamline Moderne department store structure on Los Angeles’s Miracle Mile, now known for housing the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bank building
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commercial building ⓘ demolished building ⓘ office building ⓘ |
| architect | Frank Furness ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
American eclecticism
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High Victorian Gothic ⓘ Victorian architecture ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Frank Furness ⓘ |
| category |
Bank buildings in Pennsylvania
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Demolished buildings and structures in Pennsylvania ⓘ Former buildings and structures in Philadelphia ⓘ |
| centuryOfConstruction | 19th century ⓘ |
| city | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| client | Provident Life & Trust Company ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| demolished | true ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | demolished ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| notableFor |
influence on later commercial architecture
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innovative architectural design ⓘ |
| significance |
considered one of Frank Furness’s most influential works
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considered one of Frank Furness’s most innovative works ⓘ |
| use |
bank headquarters
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office space ⓘ |
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: Provident Life & Trust Company building (demolished) Description of subject: The Provident Life & Trust Company building was a prominent 19th-century Philadelphia bank and office structure celebrated as one of architect Frank Furness’s most innovative and influential works before its demolition.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.