Cook County Building

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county government building government office building office building

The Cook County Building is a major government office structure in downtown Chicago that houses key administrative functions of Cook County.

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All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
Cook County Building canonical	8
Cook County Administration Building	1
Cook County Board chambers	1
Cook County Building (Chicago)	1
Cook County Building, Chicago	1
Cook County government complex	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T248299 — 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: Cook County Building
Context triple: [Cook County Board of Commissioners, meetsAt, Cook County Building]

A. Chicago City Hall
Chicago City Hall is the central municipal government building of Chicago, housing key city offices and serving as the primary location for official civic administration and proceedings.
B. Wrigley Building
The Wrigley Building is a historic, white terra-cotta skyscraper in Chicago renowned for its clock tower and prominent position at the gateway to the Magnificent Mile.
C. Tribune Tower
Tribune Tower is a neo-Gothic skyscraper in downtown Chicago that long served as the headquarters of the Chicago Tribune newspaper and is famed for its ornate design and embedded historic stones.
D. Water Tower Place
Water Tower Place is a major mixed-use skyscraper and shopping complex in Chicago, known for its prominent location along the city’s Magnificent Mile.
E. 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.
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: Cook County Building
Target entity description: The Cook County Building is a major government office structure in downtown Chicago that houses key administrative functions of Cook County.

A. Chicago City Hall
Chicago City Hall is the central municipal government building of Chicago, housing key city offices and serving as the primary location for official civic administration and proceedings.
B. Wrigley Building
The Wrigley Building is a historic, white terra-cotta skyscraper in Chicago renowned for its clock tower and prominent position at the gateway to the Magnificent Mile.
C. Tribune Tower
Tribune Tower is a neo-Gothic skyscraper in downtown Chicago that long served as the headquarters of the Chicago Tribune newspaper and is famed for its ornate design and embedded historic stones.
D. Water Tower Place
Water Tower Place is a major mixed-use skyscraper and shopping complex in Chicago, known for its prominent location along the city’s Magnificent Mile.
E. 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.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (35)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	county government building ⓘ government office building ⓘ office building ⓘ
architecturalStyle	Beaux-Arts architecture ⓘ
category	Buildings and structures in Chicago ⓘ County government buildings in the United States ⓘ Government buildings in Illinois ⓘ
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
floorCount	multiple stories ⓘ
function	houses key administrative functions of Cook County ⓘ
hasCoordinateLocation	41.881°N 87.629°W ⓘ
hasPart	administrative offices ⓘ government offices ⓘ public service counters ⓘ
heritageDesignation	Chicago Landmark ⓘ
locatedIn	Chicago ⓘ linked to: Chicago, Illinois, United States Illinois ⓘ United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	Cook County ⓘ linked to: Cook County, Illinois
locatedInDowntown	Chicago ⓘ linked to: Chicago, Illinois, United States
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	Chicago Loop ⓘ
locatedInTimeZone	Central Time Zone ⓘ
maintainedBy	Cook County ⓘ linked to: Cook County, Illinois
materialUsed	steel ⓘ stone ⓘ
occupant	Cook County Assessor ⓘ Cook County Board of Commissioners ⓘ Cook County Clerk ⓘ linked to: Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County Cook County State’s Attorney (administrative offices) ⓘ linked to: Cook County State's Attorney Cook County Treasurer ⓘ Government of Cook County ⓘ linked to: Cook County Board of Commissioners
ownedBy	Cook County ⓘ linked to: Cook County, Illinois
partOf	Cook County government complex ⓘ linked to: Cook County Building
publiclyAccessible	yes ⓘ
use	government offices ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Cook County Board of Commissioners → meetsAt → Cook County Building ⓘ

Loop → hasGovernmentBody → Cook County Building ⓘ

Chicago City Hall → sharesBuildingWith → Cook County Building ⓘ

Chicago City Hall → adjacentTo → Cook County Building ⓘ

Cook County Building → partOf → Cook County government complex ⓘ