U.S. Custom House, Norfolk, Virginia
E547527
The U.S. Custom House in Norfolk, Virginia is a historic 19th-century federal building known for its monumental classical architecture and long service in regulating maritime trade and customs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| U.S. Custom House, Norfolk, Virginia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5808249 — 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: U.S. Custom House, Norfolk, Virginia Context triple: [Ammi B. Young, designed, U.S. Custom House, Norfolk, Virginia]
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A.
U.S. Custom House (Portland, Maine)
The U.S. Custom House in Portland, Maine is a grand 19th-century federal building designed in the Second Empire style, serving historically as a key center for customs and maritime trade administration.
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B.
U.S. Custom House (Key West, Florida)
The U.S. Custom House in Key West, Florida is a historic, monumental federal building designed in the late 19th century by architect Alfred B. Mullett, now serving as a prominent museum and landmark in the island’s Old Town.
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C.
U.S. Custom House (New Bedford)
The U.S. Custom House in New Bedford is a historic federal building that served as the center of customs operations during the city’s 19th-century whaling and maritime trade boom.
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D.
U.S. Custom House (Galveston, Texas)
The U.S. Custom House in Galveston, Texas is a historic 19th-century federal building known for its grand Second Empire architectural style and its role in regulating the bustling Gulf Coast port’s trade.
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E.
United States Custom House in Salem
The United States Custom House in Salem is a historic federal building and former customs office in Salem, Massachusetts, best known today for its association with author Nathaniel Hawthorne, who worked there and drew on it for the introduction to "The Scarlet Letter."
- 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: U.S. Custom House, Norfolk, Virginia Target entity description: The U.S. Custom House in Norfolk, Virginia is a historic 19th-century federal building known for its monumental classical architecture and long service in regulating maritime trade and customs.
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A.
U.S. Custom House (Portland, Maine)
The U.S. Custom House in Portland, Maine is a grand 19th-century federal building designed in the Second Empire style, serving historically as a key center for customs and maritime trade administration.
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B.
U.S. Custom House (Key West, Florida)
The U.S. Custom House in Key West, Florida is a historic, monumental federal building designed in the late 19th century by architect Alfred B. Mullett, now serving as a prominent museum and landmark in the island’s Old Town.
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C.
U.S. Custom House (New Bedford)
The U.S. Custom House in New Bedford is a historic federal building that served as the center of customs operations during the city’s 19th-century whaling and maritime trade boom.
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D.
U.S. Custom House (Galveston, Texas)
The U.S. Custom House in Galveston, Texas is a historic 19th-century federal building known for its grand Second Empire architectural style and its role in regulating the bustling Gulf Coast port’s trade.
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E.
United States Custom House in Salem
The United States Custom House in Salem is a historic federal building and former customs office in Salem, Massachusetts, best known today for its association with author Nathaniel Hawthorne, who worked there and drew on it for the introduction to "The Scarlet Letter."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
custom house
ⓘ
government building ⓘ historic federal building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
classical architecture
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monumental classical style ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Port of Norfolk
ⓘ
linked to:
Port of Virginia
maritime trade in Norfolk ⓘ |
| category |
custom houses in the United States
ⓘ
federal buildings in Virginia ⓘ historic buildings in Norfolk, Virginia ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| function |
collection of customs duties
ⓘ
regulation of maritime trade ⓘ |
| governingBody | United States government ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | symbol of federal presence in Norfolk’s maritime economy ⓘ |
| hasRole | port of entry customs facility ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | historic building ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Norfolk waterfront area
ⓘ
Norfolk, Virginia ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Virginia ⓘ |
| locatedOn | U.S. East Coast ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
United States federal government
ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
|
| partOf | U.S. customs service infrastructure ⓘ |
| region | Hampton Roads ⓘ |
| significance |
example of 19th-century federal architecture
ⓘ
important center for maritime customs in Norfolk ⓘ |
| usedFor |
federal customs administration
ⓘ
maritime commerce regulation ⓘ |
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: U.S. Custom House, Norfolk, Virginia Description of subject: The U.S. Custom House in Norfolk, Virginia is a historic 19th-century federal building known for its monumental classical architecture and long service in regulating maritime trade and customs.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.