U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Milwaukee
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The U.S. Post Office and Courthouse in Milwaukee is a historic federal building designed by architect Egerton Swartwout, noted for its grand Beaux-Arts style and civic prominence.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| U.S. Post Office and Courthouse (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) | 1 |
| U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Milwaukee canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6748157 — 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. Post Office and Courthouse, Milwaukee Context triple: [Egerton Swartwout, notableWork, U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Milwaukee]
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A.
City Hall of Milwaukee
The City Hall of Milwaukee is a historic landmark building in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that long served as the seat of the city’s municipal government.
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B.
Wisconsin State Capitol
The Wisconsin State Capitol is the domed seat of Wisconsin's government, located in downtown Madison and known for its Beaux-Arts architecture and prominent position between two lakes.
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C.
Theodore Levin United States Courthouse
The Theodore Levin United States Courthouse is a historic federal courthouse in downtown Detroit that serves as the primary venue for federal judicial proceedings in the Eastern District of Michigan.
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D.
Duluth City Hall
Duluth City Hall is the historic municipal government building in Duluth, Minnesota, housing key city offices and serving as the center of local civic administration.
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E.
Marquette Building
The Marquette Building is a landmark early Chicago School skyscraper in downtown Chicago, celebrated for its steel-frame construction and richly ornamented terra-cotta and mosaic detailing.
- 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. Post Office and Courthouse, Milwaukee Target entity description: The U.S. Post Office and Courthouse in Milwaukee is a historic federal building designed by architect Egerton Swartwout, noted for its grand Beaux-Arts style and civic prominence.
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A.
City Hall of Milwaukee
The City Hall of Milwaukee is a historic landmark building in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that long served as the seat of the city’s municipal government.
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B.
Wisconsin State Capitol
The Wisconsin State Capitol is the domed seat of Wisconsin's government, located in downtown Madison and known for its Beaux-Arts architecture and prominent position between two lakes.
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C.
Theodore Levin United States Courthouse
The Theodore Levin United States Courthouse is a historic federal courthouse in downtown Detroit that serves as the primary venue for federal judicial proceedings in the Eastern District of Michigan.
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D.
Duluth City Hall
Duluth City Hall is the historic municipal government building in Duluth, Minnesota, housing key city offices and serving as the center of local civic administration.
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E.
Marquette Building
The Marquette Building is a landmark early Chicago School skyscraper in downtown Chicago, celebrated for its steel-frame construction and richly ornamented terra-cotta and mosaic detailing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
courthouse
ⓘ
historic federal building ⓘ post office building ⓘ |
| architect | Egerton Swartwout ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Beaux-Arts ⓘ |
| category |
Beaux-Arts architecture in Wisconsin
ⓘ
United States Post Office buildings ⓘ United States federal courthouses ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| function |
United States Post Office facility
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Postal Service
federal courthouse ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic building ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
ⓘ
linked to:
Milwaukee County
Milwaukee, Wisconsin ⓘ
linked to:
Milwaukee
Wisconsin ⓘ downtown Milwaukee ⓘ |
| namedAfter | its dual function as post office and courthouse ⓘ |
| notedFor |
civic prominence
ⓘ
grand Beaux-Arts style ⓘ |
| owner |
United States federal government
ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
|
| partOf | federal court system facilities in Wisconsin ⓘ |
| significance |
civic landmark
ⓘ
example of Beaux-Arts civic architecture ⓘ |
| usedFor |
federal judicial functions
ⓘ
postal services ⓘ |
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. Post Office and Courthouse, Milwaukee Description of subject: The U.S. Post Office and Courthouse in Milwaukee is a historic federal building designed by architect Egerton Swartwout, noted for its grand Beaux-Arts style and civic prominence.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Milwaukee