U.S. Custom House, Charleston, South Carolina
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The U.S. Custom House in Charleston, South Carolina is a monumental 19th-century neoclassical federal building and historic landmark located on the city’s waterfront.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| U.S. Custom House, Charleston, South Carolina canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5808250 — 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, Charleston, South Carolina Context triple: [Ammi B. Young, designed, U.S. Custom House, Charleston, South Carolina]
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U.S. Custom House, Norfolk, Virginia
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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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.
United States Custom House (New Orleans)
The United States Custom House in New Orleans is a monumental 19th-century Greek Revival federal building that served as a major customs and government center for the bustling port city.
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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.
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.
- 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, Charleston, South Carolina Target entity description: The U.S. Custom House in Charleston, South Carolina is a monumental 19th-century neoclassical federal building and historic landmark located on the city’s waterfront.
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A.
U.S. Custom House, Norfolk, Virginia
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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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.
United States Custom House (New Orleans)
The United States Custom House in New Orleans is a monumental 19th-century Greek Revival federal building that served as a major customs and government center for the bustling port city.
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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.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
custom house
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federal government building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Neoclassical architecture ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| function |
administration of federal customs regulations
ⓘ
collection of customs duties ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
classical columns
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elevated platform ⓘ monumental staircase ⓘ ornamental pediment ⓘ waterfront terrace ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
U.S. National Historic Landmark
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linked to:
National Historic Landmark
listed on the National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Charleston County, South Carolina
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Charleston, South Carolina ⓘ South Carolina ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Charleston Harbor
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historic downtown Charleston ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Charleston waterfront
ⓘ
linked to:
Charleston cruise ship terminal
|
| maintainedBy | U.S. General Services Administration ⓘ |
| materialUsed | stone ⓘ |
| owner |
United States federal government
ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
|
| publicAccess | open to the public in part ⓘ |
| significance |
important example of 19th-century federal architecture in the American South
ⓘ
prominent landmark on the Charleston waterfront ⓘ |
| significantBuildingUse |
customs house
ⓘ
federal 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: U.S. Custom House, Charleston, South Carolina Description of subject: The U.S. Custom House in Charleston, South Carolina is a monumental 19th-century neoclassical federal building and historic landmark located on the city’s waterfront.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.