Seattle Post-Intelligencer Building
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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Building is a historic Seattle landmark best known for its iconic globe atop the former home of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Seattle Post-Intelligencer Building canonical | 1 |
| Times Square Building (Seattle) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3938857 — 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: Seattle Post-Intelligencer Building Context triple: [Seattle Post-Intelligencer, headquartersBuilding, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Building]
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A.
Seafirst Building (Seattle)
The Seafirst Building in Seattle is a prominent modernist high-rise office tower that long served as a major financial and corporate hub in the city’s downtown skyline.
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B.
Seattle City Hall
Seattle City Hall is the modern civic headquarters of the City of Seattle, Washington, known for its contemporary glass-and-steel architecture and public plaza in the downtown area.
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C.
Bank of California Building (Seattle)
The Bank of California Building in Seattle is a historic downtown high-rise office building known for its mid-20th-century modernist architecture.
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D.
Portland Building
The Portland Building is a landmark postmodern office building in downtown Portland, Oregon, designed by architect Michael Graves and noted for its colorful, ornamental façade.
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E.
Portland Building
The Portland Building is a key academic and administrative facility on the University of Portsmouth campus, housing teaching spaces, student services, and various university departments.
- 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: Seattle Post-Intelligencer Building Target entity description: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Building is a historic Seattle landmark best known for its iconic globe atop the former home of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper.
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A.
Seafirst Building (Seattle)
The Seafirst Building in Seattle is a prominent modernist high-rise office tower that long served as a major financial and corporate hub in the city’s downtown skyline.
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B.
Seattle City Hall
Seattle City Hall is the modern civic headquarters of the City of Seattle, Washington, known for its contemporary glass-and-steel architecture and public plaza in the downtown area.
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C.
Bank of California Building (Seattle)
The Bank of California Building in Seattle is a historic downtown high-rise office building known for its mid-20th-century modernist architecture.
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D.
Portland Building
The Portland Building is a landmark postmodern office building in downtown Portland, Oregon, designed by architect Michael Graves and noted for its colorful, ornamental façade.
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E.
Portland Building
The Portland Building is a key academic and administrative facility on the University of Portsmouth campus, housing teaching spaces, student services, and various university departments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building
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historic landmark ⓘ newspaper headquarters ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Art Deco ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper
ⓘ
linked to:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
|
| category |
Buildings and structures in Seattle
ⓘ
Landmarks in Seattle ⓘ Newspaper headquarters in the United States ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| culturalSignificance |
prominent feature of Seattle skyline
ⓘ
symbol of Seattle journalism ⓘ |
| formerUse | headquarters of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ⓘ |
| function | office building ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer globe
ⓘ
linked to:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
|
| hasSignificantObject |
neon signage
ⓘ
rotating globe ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | Seattle landmark ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Seattle
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Washington ⓘ |
| material |
concrete
ⓘ
glass ⓘ steel ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Seattle Post-Intelligencer ⓘ |
| notableFor | iconic illuminated globe ⓘ |
| owner |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (historical)
ⓘ
linked to:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
|
| roofFeature | large globe ⓘ |
| significance | historic media building in Seattle ⓘ |
| use | newspaper offices ⓘ |
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: Seattle Post-Intelligencer Building Description of subject: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Building is a historic Seattle landmark best known for its iconic globe atop the former home of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Seattle Post-Intelligencer Building