Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower
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The Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower is a historic Art Deco skyscraper in Brooklyn, New York, long known as one of the borough’s tallest and most recognizable landmarks.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower canonical | 2 |
| Brooklyn Trust Company Building | 1 |
| Williamsburgh Bank Building | 1 |
| Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building (Brooklyn) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4562878 — 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: Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower Context triple: [Fort Greene, hasLandmark, Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower]
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A.
Bank of Manhattan Trust Building
The Bank of Manhattan Trust Building, now commonly known as 40 Wall Street, is a historic neo-Gothic skyscraper in New York City's Financial District that was briefly one of the tallest buildings in the world.
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Woolworth Building
The Woolworth Building is a historic neo-Gothic skyscraper in Lower Manhattan, New York City, once the world's tallest building and a landmark of early 20th-century architecture.
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Manhattan Municipal Building
The Manhattan Municipal Building is a landmark Beaux-Arts skyscraper in Lower Manhattan that houses numerous New York City government offices and is noted for its grand architectural design.
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D.
New York Herald Building
The New York Herald Building was a prominent Beaux-Arts style newspaper headquarters in Manhattan designed by architect Stanford White in the late 19th century.
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Flatiron Building
The Flatiron Building is a famous triangular early skyscraper in Manhattan, renowned as an iconic symbol of New York City’s architectural history.
- 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: Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower Target entity description: The Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower is a historic Art Deco skyscraper in Brooklyn, New York, long known as one of the borough’s tallest and most recognizable landmarks.
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A.
Bank of Manhattan Trust Building
The Bank of Manhattan Trust Building, now commonly known as 40 Wall Street, is a historic neo-Gothic skyscraper in New York City's Financial District that was briefly one of the tallest buildings in the world.
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B.
Woolworth Building
The Woolworth Building is a historic neo-Gothic skyscraper in Lower Manhattan, New York City, once the world's tallest building and a landmark of early 20th-century architecture.
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C.
Manhattan Municipal Building
The Manhattan Municipal Building is a landmark Beaux-Arts skyscraper in Lower Manhattan that houses numerous New York City government offices and is noted for its grand architectural design.
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D.
New York Herald Building
The New York Herald Building was a prominent Beaux-Arts style newspaper headquarters in Manhattan designed by architect Stanford White in the late 19th century.
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E.
Flatiron Building
The Flatiron Building is a famous triangular early skyscraper in Manhattan, renowned as an iconic symbol of New York City’s architectural history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower Description of subject: The Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower is a historic Art Deco skyscraper in Brooklyn, New York, long known as one of the borough’s tallest and most recognizable landmarks.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower