Old Customs House
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Old Customs House is a historic 19th-century customs building in Old Montreal that once served as a key center for the city’s maritime trade and taxation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old Customs House canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3995837 — 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: Old Customs House Context triple: [Old Montreal, contains, Old Customs House]
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A.
Old Courthouse
The Old Courthouse is a historic 19th-century courthouse in downtown St. Louis best known as the site of the pivotal Dred Scott slavery trials and as a prominent architectural landmark near the Gateway Arch.
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B.
Old Courthouse
The Old Courthouse in Kuching is a historic colonial-era government complex that now serves as a heritage landmark and cultural venue in the city.
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C.
Hamilton Town House
Hamilton Town House is a prominent civic and cultural venue in Hamilton, Scotland, housing municipal offices alongside a theatre and events space.
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D.
Customs House
Customs House is a historic neoclassical waterfront building on Shanghai’s Bund, long serving as a key symbol of the city’s colonial-era commercial and maritime trade.
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E.
Customs House
Customs House is a historic waterfront building in Hobart, Tasmania, notable for its colonial architecture and former role in administering maritime trade and customs.
- 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: Old Customs House Target entity description: Old Customs House is a historic 19th-century customs building in Old Montreal that once served as a key center for the city’s maritime trade and taxation.
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A.
Old Courthouse
The Old Courthouse is a historic 19th-century courthouse in downtown St. Louis best known as the site of the pivotal Dred Scott slavery trials and as a prominent architectural landmark near the Gateway Arch.
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B.
Old Courthouse
The Old Courthouse in Kuching is a historic colonial-era government complex that now serves as a heritage landmark and cultural venue in the city.
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C.
Hamilton Town House
Hamilton Town House is a prominent civic and cultural venue in Hamilton, Scotland, housing municipal offices alongside a theatre and events space.
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D.
Customs House
Customs House is a historic neoclassical waterfront building on Shanghai’s Bund, long serving as a key symbol of the city’s colonial-era commercial and maritime trade.
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E.
Customs House
Customs House is a historic waterfront building in Hobart, Tasmania, notable for its colonial architecture and former role in administering maritime trade and customs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century building
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customs house ⓘ historic building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | 19th-century architecture ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
maritime trade in Montreal
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taxation of imported goods ⓘ |
| category |
customs buildings in Canada
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historic buildings in Montreal ⓘ |
| constructionPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| functionStartTime | 19th century ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance |
part of Old Montreal’s architectural heritage
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symbol of Montreal’s trading history ⓘ |
| hasHistoricUse |
customs office
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government building ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic site ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Canada
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Montreal ⓘ Old Montreal ⓘ Port area of Montreal ⓘ Quebec ⓘ
linked to:
Quebec, Canada
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| locatedNear |
St. Lawrence River
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linked to:
Saint Lawrence River
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| partOf | historic district of Old Montreal ⓘ |
| significance |
key center for Montreal maritime trade
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key center for customs and taxation in Montreal ⓘ |
| usedFor |
customs administration
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maritime trade regulation ⓘ tax collection ⓘ trade taxation ⓘ |
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: Old Customs House Description of subject: Old Customs House is a historic 19th-century customs building in Old Montreal that once served as a key center for the city’s maritime trade and taxation.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.