Western Union Telegraph Building
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The Western Union Telegraph Building was a prominent 19th-century New York City skyscraper and early commercial high-rise designed by architect George B. Post for the Western Union Telegraph Company.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Western Union Telegraph Building canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7954772 — 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: Western Union Telegraph Building Context triple: [George B. Post, notableWork, Western Union Telegraph Building]
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A.
Goodhue Building
The Goodhue Building is a historic library structure designed by architect Bertram Goodhue, notable for its distinctive architectural style and role as a central public library facility.
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B.
New York Herald Building
The New York Herald Building was a prominent Beaux-Arts style newspaper headquarters in Manhattan designed by architect Stanford White in the late 19th century.
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C.
Emigrant Savings Bank Building
The Emigrant Savings Bank Building is a modernist New York City bank headquarters designed by influential architect Gordon Bunshaft, noted for its sleek glass-and-steel aesthetic.
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D.
AT&T Building
The AT&T Building is a landmark postmodern skyscraper in New York City, renowned for its Chippendale-style broken pediment top and its influential role in 1980s architectural design.
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E.
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building is a historic, fortress-like financial institution structure in Lower Manhattan that houses one of the world’s largest gold depositories and serves as a key operational hub of the U.S. central banking system.
- 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: Western Union Telegraph Building Target entity description: The Western Union Telegraph Building was a prominent 19th-century New York City skyscraper and early commercial high-rise designed by architect George B. Post for the Western Union Telegraph Company.
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A.
Goodhue Building
The Goodhue Building is a historic library structure designed by architect Bertram Goodhue, notable for its distinctive architectural style and role as a central public library facility.
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B.
New York Herald Building
The New York Herald Building was a prominent Beaux-Arts style newspaper headquarters in Manhattan designed by architect Stanford White in the late 19th century.
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C.
Emigrant Savings Bank Building
The Emigrant Savings Bank Building is a modernist New York City bank headquarters designed by influential architect Gordon Bunshaft, noted for its sleek glass-and-steel aesthetic.
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D.
AT&T Building
The AT&T Building is a landmark postmodern skyscraper in New York City, renowned for its Chippendale-style broken pediment top and its influential role in 1980s architectural design.
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E.
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building is a historic, fortress-like financial institution structure in Lower Manhattan that houses one of the world’s largest gold depositories and serves as a key operational hub of the U.S. central banking system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial high-rise building
ⓘ
office building ⓘ |
| architect | George B. Post ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Second Empire
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Victorian architecture ⓘ |
| cityDistrict |
Financial District, Manhattan
ⓘ
linked to:
Lower Manhattan
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| completionDate | 1875 ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| demolitionDate | 1914 ⓘ |
| hasPart | clock tower ⓘ |
| height |
230 ft
ⓘ
70 m ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | demolished building ⓘ |
| inception | 1875 ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York ⓘ |
| locatedOnStreet | Broadway ⓘ |
| location | New York City ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
brick
ⓘ
stone ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the earliest commercial high-rises in New York City
ⓘ
its prominent clock tower on the New York skyline in the late 19th century ⓘ |
| numberOfFloors | 10 ⓘ |
| occupant |
Western Union Telegraph Company
ⓘ
linked to:
Western Union
|
| owner |
Western Union Telegraph Company
ⓘ
linked to:
Western Union
|
| replacedBy | a later Western Union Building on the same site ⓘ |
| roofFeature | mansard roof ⓘ |
| significantBuilding | early New York City skyscraper ⓘ |
| use |
office space
ⓘ
telegraph company headquarters ⓘ |
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: Western Union Telegraph Building Description of subject: The Western Union Telegraph Building was a prominent 19th-century New York City skyscraper and early commercial high-rise designed by architect George B. Post for the Western Union Telegraph Company.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.