Garnier Building
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The Garnier Building is a historic structure in Los Angeles’ El Pueblo district, notable as one of the oldest surviving buildings in the city’s original Chinatown and now home to the Chinese American Museum.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Garnier Building canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9216965 — 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: Garnier Building Context triple: [Chinese American Museum (Los Angeles), occupiesBuilding, Garnier Building]
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A.
Piazza Building
The Piazza Building is a central hub and social space on the University of York’s Heslington East campus, housing teaching facilities, catering outlets, and a large lakeside atrium used for events and student activities.
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B.
Baxter Building
The Baxter Building is the iconic New York City skyscraper that serves as the headquarters and primary base of operations for Marvel’s superhero team, the Fantastic Four.
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C.
Gazeta Building
The Gazeta Building is a prominent modernist high-rise in São Paulo that houses the headquarters of the Gazeta media group and a well-known theater and cultural complex.
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D.
Leacock Building
The Leacock Building is a major academic and classroom complex at McGill University’s downtown Montreal campus, housing numerous lecture halls, offices, and social science departments.
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E.
Raymond Building
Raymond Building is a key academic and research facility located on McGill University's Macdonald Campus.
- 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: Garnier Building Target entity description: The Garnier Building is a historic structure in Los Angeles’ El Pueblo district, notable as one of the oldest surviving buildings in the city’s original Chinatown and now home to the Chinese American Museum.
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A.
Piazza Building
The Piazza Building is a central hub and social space on the University of York’s Heslington East campus, housing teaching facilities, catering outlets, and a large lakeside atrium used for events and student activities.
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B.
Baxter Building
The Baxter Building is the iconic New York City skyscraper that serves as the headquarters and primary base of operations for Marvel’s superhero team, the Fantastic Four.
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C.
Gazeta Building
The Gazeta Building is a prominent modernist high-rise in São Paulo that houses the headquarters of the Gazeta media group and a well-known theater and cultural complex.
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D.
Leacock Building
The Leacock Building is a major academic and classroom complex at McGill University’s downtown Montreal campus, housing numerous lecture halls, offices, and social science departments.
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E.
Raymond Building
Raymond Building is a key academic and research facility located on McGill University's Macdonald Campus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | historic building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | commercial block ⓘ |
| associatedWithCommunity | Chinese American community in Los Angeles ⓘ |
| associatedWithEthnicGroup | Chinese Americans ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Los Angeles
ⓘ
Chinatown, Los Angeles ⓘ Chinese-American culture in California ⓘ Museums in Los Angeles ⓘ |
| city | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| culturalHeritage | Chinese American heritage site ⓘ |
| currentTenant |
Chinese American Museum
ⓘ
linked to:
Chinese American Museum (Los Angeles)
|
| governingBody |
City of Los Angeles
ⓘ
linked to:
Los Angeles
|
| hasExhibitsOn |
Chinese American community life in Southern California
ⓘ
Chinese American history ⓘ Chinese immigration to Los Angeles ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
cultural center
ⓘ
exhibition space ⓘ museum space ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic structure ⓘ |
| historicDistrict |
original Chinatown of Los Angeles
ⓘ
linked to:
Chinatown, Los Angeles
|
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
El Pueblo de Los Ángeles Historical Monument ⓘ
linked to:
El Pueblo de Los Ángeles State Historic Park
Los Angeles ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| material |
brick
ⓘ
masonry ⓘ |
| neighborhood | El Pueblo district ⓘ |
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| owner |
City of Los Angeles
ⓘ
linked to:
Los Angeles
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| partOf |
El Pueblo de Los Ángeles Historic District
ⓘ
linked to:
El Pueblo de Los Ángeles State Historic Park
|
| significance |
important site in Chinese American history in Los Angeles
ⓘ
one of the oldest surviving buildings in Los Angeles’ original Chinatown ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
| use |
Chinese American Museum
ⓘ
linked to:
Chinese American Museum (Los Angeles)
|
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: Garnier Building Description of subject: The Garnier Building is a historic structure in Los Angeles’ El Pueblo district, notable as one of the oldest surviving buildings in the city’s original Chinatown and now home to the Chinese American Museum.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.