Cable Building
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The Cable Building is a historic New York City structure notable for its Beaux-Arts architecture and its original use as a cable car power station and office building in the late 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cable Building canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6622718 — 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: Cable Building Context triple: [Henry Ives Cobb, designed, Cable Building]
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A.
Hylan Building
The Hylan Building is an academic facility on the University of Rochester’s River Campus that primarily houses mathematics and computer science departments, classrooms, and offices.
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B.
Martin Building
The Martin Building is a key architectural wing of the Denver Art Museum, known for housing a significant portion of the museum’s art collections and exhibitions.
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C.
North Building
North Building is one of the main exhibition and convention halls within Chicago’s McCormick Place complex, hosting large-scale trade shows and events.
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D.
North Building
North Building is a distinctive wing of the Denver Art Museum, known for its modernist architecture and role in housing part of the museum’s art collections.
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E.
North Building
North Building is one of the main commercial and office towers within the Grand Front Osaka complex, housing a mix of shops, restaurants, and business facilities.
- 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: Cable Building Target entity description: The Cable Building is a historic New York City structure notable for its Beaux-Arts architecture and its original use as a cable car power station and office building in the late 19th century.
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A.
Hylan Building
The Hylan Building is an academic facility on the University of Rochester’s River Campus that primarily houses mathematics and computer science departments, classrooms, and offices.
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B.
Martin Building
The Martin Building is a key architectural wing of the Denver Art Museum, known for housing a significant portion of the museum’s art collections and exhibitions.
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C.
North Building
North Building is one of the main exhibition and convention halls within Chicago’s McCormick Place complex, hosting large-scale trade shows and events.
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D.
North Building
North Building is a distinctive wing of the Denver Art Museum, known for its modernist architecture and role in housing part of the museum’s art collections.
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E.
North Building
North Building is one of the main commercial and office towers within the Grand Front Osaka complex, housing a mix of shops, restaurants, and business facilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building
ⓘ
former cable car power station ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Beaux-Arts
ⓘ
Beaux-Arts architecture ⓘ
linked to:
Beaux-Arts
|
| category |
Beaux-Arts buildings in New York City
ⓘ
former power stations in New York City ⓘ historic office buildings in New York City ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasHistoricalPeriod | late 19th century urban transit era ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic structure ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ New York State ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States city of New York ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
|
| locatedInTimePeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Beaux-Arts architecture
ⓘ
linked to:
Beaux-Arts
original use as a cable car power station ⓘ original use as an office building ⓘ |
| originalFunction |
cable car power station
ⓘ
office building ⓘ |
| partOf | urban fabric of New York City ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial offices
ⓘ
transportation infrastructure support ⓘ |
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: Cable Building Description of subject: The Cable Building is a historic New York City structure notable for its Beaux-Arts architecture and its original use as a cable car power station and office building in the late 19th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.