Racine & Laramie Tobacco Shop building
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The Racine & Laramie Tobacco Shop building is a historic 19th-century commercial structure in Old Town San Diego, known as one of the oldest tobacco shops in California and preserved as part of the area's state historic park.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Racine & Laramie Tobacco Shop | 1 |
| Racine & Laramie Tobacco Shop building canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2356469 — 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: Racine & Laramie Tobacco Shop building Context triple: [Old Town San Diego State Historic Park, hasPart, Racine & Laramie Tobacco Shop building]
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A.
Ricketts Building
The Ricketts Building is an academic facility at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that houses classrooms, laboratories, and offices for engineering and science programs.
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B.
Madison Building
The Madison Building is one of the main Library of Congress structures in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections, reading rooms, and administrative offices.
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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.
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.
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E.
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.
- 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: Racine & Laramie Tobacco Shop building Target entity description: The Racine & Laramie Tobacco Shop building is a historic 19th-century commercial structure in Old Town San Diego, known as one of the oldest tobacco shops in California and preserved as part of the area's state historic park.
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A.
Ricketts Building
The Ricketts Building is an academic facility at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that houses classrooms, laboratories, and offices for engineering and science programs.
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B.
Madison Building
The Madison Building is one of the main Library of Congress structures in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections, reading rooms, and administrative offices.
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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.
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.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century building
ⓘ
historic commercial building ⓘ tobacco shop building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | 19th-century commercial style ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Racine & Laramie Tobacco Shop
ⓘ
linked to:
Racine & Laramie Tobacco Shop building
|
| category |
historic site in San Diego
ⓘ
historic tobacco shop ⓘ |
| city | San Diego ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| function | commercial ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | historic building ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | contributing property in a state historic park ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Old Town San Diego ⓘ
linked to:
Old Town, San Diego
San Diego ⓘ San Diego County ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locatedInHistoricDistrict |
Old Town San Diego historic district
ⓘ
linked to:
Old Town, San Diego
|
| material |
adobe
ⓘ
wood ⓘ |
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| partOf | Old Town San Diego State Historic Park ⓘ |
| preservationStatus | preserved ⓘ |
| significance |
historic commercial structure in Old Town San Diego
ⓘ
one of the oldest tobacco shops in California ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| touristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
| use |
retail store
ⓘ
tobacco shop ⓘ |
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: Racine & Laramie Tobacco Shop building Description of subject: The Racine & Laramie Tobacco Shop building is a historic 19th-century commercial structure in Old Town San Diego, known as one of the oldest tobacco shops in California and preserved as part of the area's state historic park.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Racine & Laramie Tobacco Shop building