Tip-Top-Tap sign
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The Tip-Top-Tap sign is a historic rooftop neon sign in Chicago that once advertised the Allerton Hotel’s famed Tip-Top-Tap lounge and remains a prominent city landmark.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tip-Top-Tap sign canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9701167 — 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: Tip-Top-Tap sign Context triple: [Allerton Hotel, hasSignificantFeature, Tip-Top-Tap sign]
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A.
Troisier's sign
Troisier's sign is a clinical finding of an enlarged, hard left supraclavicular lymph node that often indicates underlying abdominal or thoracic malignancy, especially gastric cancer.
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B.
Magendie’s sign
Magendie’s sign is a clinical indicator associated with lesions of the posterior columns of the spinal cord, historically described by the French physiologist François Magendie.
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C.
Kocher sign
Kocher sign is a clinical indicator associated with hyperthyroidism, particularly Graves' disease, characterized by a lag of the upper eyelid on downward gaze.
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D.
Pegasus sign
The Pegasus sign is a historic, neon-red flying horse emblem that has become an iconic symbol of Dallas, prominently visible in the city’s downtown skyline.
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E.
Stellwag sign
Stellwag sign is a clinical sign of infrequent or incomplete blinking typically associated with Graves’ disease and other forms of exophthalmos.
- 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: Tip-Top-Tap sign Target entity description: The Tip-Top-Tap sign is a historic rooftop neon sign in Chicago that once advertised the Allerton Hotel’s famed Tip-Top-Tap lounge and remains a prominent city landmark.
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A.
Troisier's sign
Troisier's sign is a clinical finding of an enlarged, hard left supraclavicular lymph node that often indicates underlying abdominal or thoracic malignancy, especially gastric cancer.
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B.
Magendie’s sign
Magendie’s sign is a clinical indicator associated with lesions of the posterior columns of the spinal cord, historically described by the French physiologist François Magendie.
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C.
Kocher sign
Kocher sign is a clinical indicator associated with hyperthyroidism, particularly Graves' disease, characterized by a lag of the upper eyelid on downward gaze.
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D.
Pegasus sign
The Pegasus sign is a historic, neon-red flying horse emblem that has become an iconic symbol of Dallas, prominently visible in the city’s downtown skyline.
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E.
Stellwag sign
Stellwag sign is a clinical sign of infrequent or incomplete blinking typically associated with Graves’ disease and other forms of exophthalmos.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic landmark
ⓘ
neon sign ⓘ outdoor advertisement ⓘ |
| advertised |
Allerton Hotel Tip-Top-Tap lounge
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linked to:
Tip-Top-Tap lounge
Tip-Top-Tap lounge ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Allerton Hotel ⓘ |
| category | Rooftop signs in Chicago ⓘ |
| city |
Chicago
ⓘ
linked to:
Chicago, Illinois, United States
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| culturalSignificance | Chicago city icon ⓘ |
| depictsText | TIP-TOP-TAP ⓘ |
| era | 20th century commercial signage ⓘ |
| function | commercial advertising ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic sign ⓘ |
| language | English text ⓘ |
| lightingTechnology | neon tubing ⓘ |
| locatedOn | rooftop ⓘ |
| location | Chicago ⓘ |
| material | metal ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with Allerton Hotel
ⓘ
association with Tip-Top-Tap lounge ⓘ neon lighting ⓘ rooftop placement ⓘ |
| owner |
Allerton Hotel (historically)
ⓘ
linked to:
Allerton Hotel
|
| preservation | maintained as landmark feature ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Chicago skyline
ⓘ
Michigan Avenue Chicago ⓘ
linked to:
Michigan Avenue
|
| signType | neon ⓘ |
| status | surviving historic sign ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
| usedToAdvertise | hotel lounge ⓘ |
| visibility | prominent city landmark ⓘ |
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: Tip-Top-Tap sign Description of subject: The Tip-Top-Tap sign is a historic rooftop neon sign in Chicago that once advertised the Allerton Hotel’s famed Tip-Top-Tap lounge and remains a prominent city landmark.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.