Western Union Telegraph Building
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The Western Union Telegraph Building was a prominent late-19th-century New York City commercial skyscraper that served as the headquarters of the Western Union Telegraph Company and exemplified architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh’s early high-rise design work.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Western Union Telegraph Building canonical | 1 |
| Western Union Telegraph Building, New York City | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9084805 — 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: [Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, designed, Western Union Telegraph Building]
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A.
Western Union Telegraph Building
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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 late-19th-century New York City commercial skyscraper that served as the headquarters of the Western Union Telegraph Company and exemplified architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh’s early high-rise design work.
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A.
Western Union Telegraph Building
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | commercial skyscraper ⓘ |
| architect | Henry Janeway Hardenbergh ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Romanesque Revival
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linked to:
Neo-Romanesque
early skyscraper ⓘ |
| borough | Manhattan ⓘ |
| category |
demolished skyscrapers in New York City
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office buildings completed in 1875 ⓘ |
| city | New York City ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1875 ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | New York State ⓘ |
| demolitionDate | 1914 ⓘ |
| era | Gilded Age ⓘ |
| floorCount | about 10 stories ⓘ |
| function | corporate headquarters ⓘ |
| hasArchitect | Henry Janeway Hardenbergh ⓘ |
| hasClient |
Western Union Telegraph Company
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linked to:
Western Union
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| height | approximately 230 feet ⓘ |
| industryServed |
telecommunications
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telegraphy ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
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New York City ⓘ |
| locatedInHistoricArea | Lower Manhattan ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
brick
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stone ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early high-rise design by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh
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headquarters of a major telegraph company ⓘ prominent presence in New York City skyline of the 1870s and 1880s ⓘ |
| occupant |
Western Union Telegraph Company
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linked to:
Western Union
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| openingDate | 1875 ⓘ |
| owner |
Western Union Telegraph Company
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linked to:
Western Union
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| partOf | development of early skyscrapers in New York City ⓘ |
| replacedBy | a later Western Union Building at 195 Broadway ⓘ |
| roofFeature |
telegraph equipment
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tower ⓘ |
| significantPeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| startDate | 1875 ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 195 Broadway vicinity ⓘ |
| tenant |
Western Union Telegraph Company
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linked to:
Western Union
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| usedFor |
office space
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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 late-19th-century New York City commercial skyscraper that served as the headquarters of the Western Union Telegraph Company and exemplified architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh’s early high-rise design work.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Henry J. Hardenbergh (own practice)
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notableWorkDesigner
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Western Union Telegraph Building, New York City
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linked to: Western Union Telegraph Building