T.R. Foster Building
E523873
The T.R. Foster Building is a historic commercial structure located within Honolulu’s Merchant Street Historic District, notable for its 19th-century architecture and association with Hawaii’s early business development.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| T.R. Foster Building canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5473187 — 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: T.R. Foster Building Context triple: [Merchant Street Historic District, contains, T.R. Foster 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.
Henry F. Hall Building
The Henry F. Hall Building is a major academic and administrative complex at Concordia University in Montreal, known for its central role in campus life and its distinctive modernist architecture.
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C.
R. A. Gray Building
The R. A. Gray Building is a state government facility in Tallahassee, Florida, best known as the home of the Museum of Florida History and the State Library and Archives.
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D.
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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E.
Buckwalter Building
The Buckwalter Building is a historic commercial structure located in downtown West Chester, Pennsylvania, recognized for its architectural and local heritage significance.
- 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: T.R. Foster Building Target entity description: The T.R. Foster Building is a historic commercial structure located within Honolulu’s Merchant Street Historic District, notable for its 19th-century architecture and association with Hawaii’s early business development.
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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.
Henry F. Hall Building
The Henry F. Hall Building is a major academic and administrative complex at Concordia University in Montreal, known for its central role in campus life and its distinctive modernist architecture.
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C.
R. A. Gray Building
The R. A. Gray Building is a state government facility in Tallahassee, Florida, best known as the home of the Museum of Florida History and the State Library and Archives.
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D.
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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E.
Buckwalter Building
The Buckwalter Building is a historic commercial structure located in downtown West Chester, Pennsylvania, recognized for its architectural and local heritage significance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
heritage building
ⓘ
historic commercial building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | 19th-century commercial architecture ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| heritageDesignation | part of a historic district ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | contributing property to Merchant Street Historic District ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hawaii
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Honolulu ⓘ Merchant Street Historic District ⓘ Oahu ⓘ |
| namedAfter | T. R. Foster ⓘ |
| notableFor |
historic commercial architecture
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role in early business activity in Honolulu ⓘ |
| significance | associated with Hawaii’s early business development ⓘ |
| use | commercial ⓘ |
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: T.R. Foster Building Description of subject: The T.R. Foster Building is a historic commercial structure located within Honolulu’s Merchant Street Historic District, notable for its 19th-century architecture and association with Hawaii’s early business development.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.