Old Colony Building
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The Old Colony Building is a historic Chicago skyscraper recognized as a significant example of late 19th-century commercial architecture.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old Colony Building canonical | 9 |
| Old Colony Building Company | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T503832 — 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: Old Colony Building Context triple: [Holabird & Roche, notableWork, Old Colony Building]
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A.
Adams Building
The Adams Building is one of the main Library of Congress buildings in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections and reading rooms.
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B.
Boston City Hall
Boston City Hall is a prominent example of Brutalist civic architecture in downtown Boston that houses the city’s municipal government offices and council chambers.
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C.
Ahmanson Building
The Ahmanson Building is a major gallery and exhibition space within the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, housing significant portions of its art collections.
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D.
Madison Building
The Madison Building is one of the main Library of Congress structures in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections, reading rooms, and administrative offices.
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E.
Brooks Building
The Brooks Building is a key teaching and learning facility of Manchester Metropolitan University, known for housing education and health-related disciplines in modern, sustainable spaces.
- 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: Old Colony Building Target entity description: The Old Colony Building is a historic Chicago skyscraper recognized as a significant example of late 19th-century commercial architecture.
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A.
Adams Building
The Adams Building is one of the main Library of Congress buildings in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections and reading rooms.
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B.
Boston City Hall
Boston City Hall is a prominent example of Brutalist civic architecture in downtown Boston that houses the city’s municipal government offices and council chambers.
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C.
Ahmanson Building
The Ahmanson Building is a major gallery and exhibition space within the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, housing significant portions of its art collections.
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D.
Madison Building
The Madison Building is one of the main Library of Congress structures in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections, reading rooms, and administrative offices.
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E.
Brooks Building
The Brooks Building is a key teaching and learning facility of Manchester Metropolitan University, known for housing education and health-related disciplines in modern, sustainable spaces.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chicago Landmark
ⓘ
commercial building ⓘ historic building ⓘ office building ⓘ skyscraper ⓘ |
| architect | Holabird & Roche ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Chicago School
ⓘ
linked to:
Chicago School architecture
late 19th-century commercial architecture ⓘ |
| category |
Chicago Landmarks
ⓘ
linked to:
Chicago Landmark
Chicago School architecture in Illinois ⓘ Office buildings completed in 1894 ⓘ Skyscrapers in Chicago ⓘ |
| city |
Chicago
ⓘ
linked to:
Chicago, Illinois, United States
|
| constructionStartDate | 1893 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| currentUse |
residential apartments
ⓘ
student housing ⓘ |
| developerAfterRenovation | The Scion Group ⓘ |
| floorCount | 17 ⓘ |
| hasBasement | yes ⓘ |
| hasElevator | yes ⓘ |
| hasFacadeColor | light-colored masonry ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
curtain wall elements
ⓘ
large Chicago-style windows ⓘ ornamental terra cotta details ⓘ projecting bays ⓘ |
| hasPlan | rectangular plan ⓘ |
| hasRenovation | major rehabilitation in the 2010s ⓘ |
| hasStructuralSystem | steel skeleton frame ⓘ |
| height | approximately 215 feet ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Chicago Landmark ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationDate | July 7, 1978 ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| location | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| material |
masonry cladding
ⓘ
steel-frame construction ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Old Colony Railroad ⓘ |
| neighborhood | Chicago Loop ⓘ |
| NRHPStatus | contributing property to a historic district ⓘ |
| originalUse | office space ⓘ |
| partOf | Printing House Row District ⓘ |
| roofType | flat roof ⓘ |
| significance |
important example of early Chicago skyscraper design
ⓘ
represents transition from load-bearing masonry to steel-frame construction ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 407 South Dearborn Street ⓘ |
| useAfterRenovation | student residences and apartments ⓘ |
| yearCompleted | 1894 ⓘ |
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: Old Colony Building Description of subject: The Old Colony Building is a historic Chicago skyscraper recognized as a significant example of late 19th-century commercial architecture.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
William Holabird
subject linked to:
407 South Dearborn Street
linked to: Old Colony Building