Waag building
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The Waag building is a historic 15th-century former city gate and weighing house in Amsterdam, now a prominent monument known for its distinctive medieval architecture and cultural uses.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Waag building canonical | 7 |
| Waag building (nearby on Nieuwmarkt) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6902465 — 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: Waag building Context triple: [Nieuwmarkt area, hasLandmark, Waag building]
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A.
Hamburg City Hall
Hamburg City Hall is the historic neo-Renaissance city hall of Hamburg, Germany, serving as the seat of the city’s government and senate.
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B.
Bremen Town Hall
Bremen Town Hall is a historic Gothic and Renaissance-style building in Bremen, Germany, renowned as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the seat of the city’s government.
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C.
Cölln town hall
Cölln town hall was the historic municipal building that served as the administrative and political center of the former city of Cölln, now part of Berlin.
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D.
Rotes Rathaus
Rotes Rathaus is the historic red-brick town hall of Berlin, serving as the seat of the city’s governing mayor and senate.
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E.
Amsterdam City Hall
Amsterdam City Hall is the main municipal government building of Amsterdam, housed within the Stopera complex that also contains the Dutch National Opera & Ballet.
- 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: Waag building Target entity description: The Waag building is a historic 15th-century former city gate and weighing house in Amsterdam, now a prominent monument known for its distinctive medieval architecture and cultural uses.
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A.
Hamburg City Hall
Hamburg City Hall is the historic neo-Renaissance city hall of Hamburg, Germany, serving as the seat of the city’s government and senate.
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B.
Bremen Town Hall
Bremen Town Hall is a historic Gothic and Renaissance-style building in Bremen, Germany, renowned as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the seat of the city’s government.
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C.
Cölln town hall
Cölln town hall was the historic municipal building that served as the administrative and political center of the former city of Cölln, now part of Berlin.
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D.
Rotes Rathaus
Rotes Rathaus is the historic red-brick town hall of Berlin, serving as the seat of the city’s governing mayor and senate.
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E.
Amsterdam City Hall
Amsterdam City Hall is the main municipal government building of Amsterdam, housed within the Stopera complex that also contains the Dutch National Opera & Ballet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city gate
ⓘ
historic building ⓘ monument ⓘ weigh house ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | medieval architecture ⓘ |
| city | Amsterdam ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 15th century ⓘ |
| country | Netherlands ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRole | symbol of Amsterdam’s medieval past ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
city gate
ⓘ
cultural venue ⓘ museum space ⓘ restaurant ⓘ weigh house ⓘ |
| hasNameInDutch |
De Waag
ⓘ
linked to:
Waag (Amsterdam weighing house)
|
| heritageDesignation |
rijksmonument
ⓘ
linked to:
Rijksmonument
|
| heritageStatus | national monument of the Netherlands ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Amsterdam
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Netherlands ⓘ Nieuwmarkt ⓘ |
| material | brick ⓘ |
| notableFor |
distinctive medieval architecture
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historical significance in Amsterdam ⓘ |
| originalUse |
city gate of Amsterdam
ⓘ
weigh house for goods ⓘ |
| partOf |
historic center of Amsterdam
ⓘ
linked to:
historic centre of Amsterdam
|
| roofType | conical towers ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cultural activities
ⓘ
exhibitions ⓘ public events ⓘ |
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: Waag building Description of subject: The Waag building is a historic 15th-century former city gate and weighing house in Amsterdam, now a prominent monument known for its distinctive medieval architecture and cultural uses.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Waag building