S-M-C Cartage Company garage
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The S-M-C Cartage Company garage was the Chicago warehouse where seven men were murdered in the 1929 Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre, a pivotal event in Prohibition-era gang violence.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| S-M-C Cartage Company garage canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6467418 — 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: S-M-C Cartage Company garage Context triple: [Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, tookPlaceAt, S-M-C Cartage Company garage]
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A.
Orange Garage
Orange Garage is a multi-level parking facility serving visitors to the Disney Springs shopping, dining, and entertainment district at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.
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B.
Monroe Street Garage
Monroe Street Garage is a multi-level parking facility in downtown Chicago that serves visitors to nearby cultural attractions such as the Art Institute of Chicago and Millennium Park.
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C.
Morris Garages
Morris Garages is a historic British automotive marque, best known for its MG sports cars and later as a global car brand.
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D.
Torres Maldonado Garage
Torres Maldonado Garage is an architecturally distinctive parking facility designed by Preston Scott Cohen, noted for its complex geometric form and innovative spatial composition.
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E.
Wilson’s garage
Wilson’s garage is the run-down auto repair shop and gas station owned by George Wilson in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel "The Great Gatsby," located in the desolate Valley of Ashes.
- 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: S-M-C Cartage Company garage Target entity description: The S-M-C Cartage Company garage was the Chicago warehouse where seven men were murdered in the 1929 Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre, a pivotal event in Prohibition-era gang violence.
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A.
Orange Garage
Orange Garage is a multi-level parking facility serving visitors to the Disney Springs shopping, dining, and entertainment district at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.
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B.
Monroe Street Garage
Monroe Street Garage is a multi-level parking facility in downtown Chicago that serves visitors to nearby cultural attractions such as the Art Institute of Chicago and Millennium Park.
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C.
Morris Garages
Morris Garages is a historic British automotive marque, best known for its MG sports cars and later as a global car brand.
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D.
Torres Maldonado Garage
Torres Maldonado Garage is an architecturally distinctive parking facility designed by Preston Scott Cohen, noted for its complex geometric form and innovative spatial composition.
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E.
Wilson’s garage
Wilson’s garage is the run-down auto repair shop and gas station owned by George Wilson in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel "The Great Gatsby," located in the desolate Valley of Ashes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | warehouse ⓘ |
| associatedEventType | gangland massacre ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
gang violence in Chicago
ⓘ
organized crime in the United States ⓘ |
| city |
Chicago
ⓘ
linked to:
Chicago, Illinois, United States
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| era | 1920s ⓘ |
| eventDate | 1929-02-14 ⓘ |
| eventOccurred |
Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre
ⓘ
linked to:
Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
|
| hasSignificance | pivotal event in Prohibition-era gang violence ⓘ |
| hasVictimsCount | 7 men ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Prohibition era ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Chicago
ⓘ
linked to:
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Illinois ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| notableFor | site of the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre ⓘ |
| numberOfPeopleKilledInEvent | 7 ⓘ |
| partOf |
history of Chicago crime
ⓘ
history of Prohibition in the United States ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| usedAs |
cartage company warehouse
ⓘ
garage ⓘ |
| usedBy | S-M-C Cartage Company ⓘ |
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: S-M-C Cartage Company garage Description of subject: The S-M-C Cartage Company garage was the Chicago warehouse where seven men were murdered in the 1929 Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre, a pivotal event in Prohibition-era gang violence.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.