Aduana (Customs House)
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Aduana (Customs House) is a historic customs building in Havana, Cuba, notable for its colonial-era architecture and role in the city’s maritime trade.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aduana (Customs House) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9901618 — 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: Aduana (Customs House) Context triple: [Plaza de San Francisco de Asís, hasLandmark, Aduana (Customs House)]
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A.
Kumasi Fort
Kumasi Fort is a historic military fort and museum in Kumasi, Ghana, that played a significant role in the colonial and Ashanti wars era.
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B.
Customs House
Customs House is a historic neoclassical waterfront building on Shanghai’s Bund, long serving as a key symbol of the city’s colonial-era commercial and maritime trade.
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C.
Customs House
Customs House is a historic waterfront building in Hobart, Tasmania, notable for its colonial architecture and former role in administering maritime trade and customs.
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D.
Customs House
Customs House is a historic sandstone building at Sydney’s Circular Quay that once served as the city’s main customs office and now functions as a cultural and civic venue.
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E.
Customs House
Customs House is a historic government building in Christiansted, Saint Croix, formerly used for customs and trade administration during the Danish colonial era.
- 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: Aduana (Customs House) Target entity description: Aduana (Customs House) is a historic customs building in Havana, Cuba, notable for its colonial-era architecture and role in the city’s maritime trade.
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A.
Kumasi Fort
Kumasi Fort is a historic military fort and museum in Kumasi, Ghana, that played a significant role in the colonial and Ashanti wars era.
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B.
Customs House
Customs House is a historic neoclassical waterfront building on Shanghai’s Bund, long serving as a key symbol of the city’s colonial-era commercial and maritime trade.
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C.
Customs House
Customs House is a historic government building in Christiansted, Saint Croix, formerly used for customs and trade administration during the Danish colonial era.
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D.
Customs House
Customs House is a historic waterfront building in Hobart, Tasmania, notable for its colonial architecture and former role in administering maritime trade and customs.
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E.
Customs House
Customs House is a historic sandstone building at Sydney’s Circular Quay that once served as the city’s main customs office and now functions as a cultural and civic venue.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
customs house
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government building ⓘ historic building ⓘ landmark ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Spanish colonial architecture
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colonial architecture ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Atlantic maritime trade routes
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Havana’s commercial history ⓘ Spanish colonial administration in Cuba ⓘ
linked to:
Governance of colonial Cuba
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| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Cuba ⓘ |
| function |
administration of port-related taxes
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collection of customs duties ⓘ customs control ⓘ regulation of maritime trade ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Cuban customs authorities
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Cuban government ⓘ |
| hasCulturalValue | symbol of Havana’s maritime and commercial past ⓘ |
| heritageSignificance |
example of colonial-era port architecture in Cuba
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historic role in Havana’s maritime trade ⓘ part of Havana’s historic port infrastructure ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Havana
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linked to:
Havana, Cuba
Havana Harbor area ⓘ
linked to:
Havana Harbor
Old Havana ⓘ Province of La Habana ⓘ
linked to:
La Habana Province
municipality of La Habana Vieja ⓘ port area of Havana ⓘ |
| locatedInTime | colonial era ⓘ |
| locatedOn | waterfront ⓘ |
| material |
brick
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masonry ⓘ stone ⓘ |
| notableFor |
colonial-era architectural features
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historic façade facing the harbor ⓘ role in controlling goods entering and leaving Havana by sea ⓘ |
| partOf |
historic urban fabric of Old Havana
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linked to:
Old Havana
|
| primaryAccess | by road along the harbor ⓘ |
| proximityTo |
Havana Bay
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port of Havana ⓘ
linked to:
Port of Havana
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| region | Caribbean ⓘ |
| tourismRole | point of interest for visitors to Havana’s harbor area ⓘ |
| usedFor |
processing of exported goods
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processing of imported goods ⓘ storage and inspection of cargo ⓘ |
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: Aduana (Customs House) Description of subject: Aduana (Customs House) is a historic customs building in Havana, Cuba, notable for its colonial-era architecture and role in the city’s maritime trade.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.