Calvo Building
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The Calvo Building is a historic pre-war commercial structure in Manila, Philippines, noted for its Art Deco architecture and its role in the city’s early business and cultural life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Calvo Building canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10670623 — 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: Calvo Building Context triple: [Escolta Street, hasBuilding, Calvo Building]
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A.
Pan American Union Building
The Pan American Union Building is a historic Beaux-Arts headquarters in Washington, D.C., serving as the main building of the Organization of American States and a symbol of inter-American diplomacy.
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B.
Davis Building
The Davis Building is a facility located on the campus of the University of Texas at Martin (UTM), used for academic and institutional purposes.
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C.
Club de la Unión building
The Club de la Unión building is a historic and architecturally prominent social club edifice located on Plaza Muñoz Gamero in Punta Arenas, Chile.
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D.
Federico Degetau Federal Building
The Federico Degetau Federal Building is a major federal government complex in San Juan, Puerto Rico, that houses key U.S. government offices and judicial facilities.
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E.
Ricketts Building
The Ricketts Building is an academic facility at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that houses classrooms, laboratories, and offices for engineering and science programs.
- 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: Calvo Building Target entity description: The Calvo Building is a historic pre-war commercial structure in Manila, Philippines, noted for its Art Deco architecture and its role in the city’s early business and cultural life.
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A.
Pan American Union Building
The Pan American Union Building is a historic Beaux-Arts headquarters in Washington, D.C., serving as the main building of the Organization of American States and a symbol of inter-American diplomacy.
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B.
Davis Building
The Davis Building is a facility located on the campus of the University of Texas at Martin (UTM), used for academic and institutional purposes.
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C.
Club de la Unión building
The Club de la Unión building is a historic and architecturally prominent social club edifice located on Plaza Muñoz Gamero in Punta Arenas, Chile.
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D.
Federico Degetau Federal Building
The Federico Degetau Federal Building is a major federal government complex in San Juan, Puerto Rico, that houses key U.S. government offices and judicial facilities.
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E.
Ricketts Building
The Ricketts Building is an academic facility at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that houses classrooms, laboratories, and offices for engineering and science programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building
ⓘ
heritage building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Art Deco ⓘ |
| city | Manila ⓘ |
| constructionPeriod | pre–World War II ⓘ |
| country | Philippines ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | associated with early commercial and cultural activities in Manila ⓘ |
| era | pre-war Manila ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
office space
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retail space ⓘ |
| heritageSignificance | represents pre-war commercial architecture in Manila ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic building ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Binondo
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Escolta ⓘ Manila, Philippines ⓘ
linked to:
Manila
historic business district of Manila ⓘ |
| materialCultureContext | urban commercial architecture of early 20th-century Manila ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Art Deco architecture
ⓘ
role in Manila’s early business life ⓘ role in Manila’s early cultural life ⓘ |
| partOf | historic streetscape of Escolta ⓘ |
| region | Metro Manila ⓘ |
| streetAddress | Escolta Street ⓘ |
| use | commercial ⓘ |
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: Calvo Building Description of subject: The Calvo Building is a historic pre-war commercial structure in Manila, Philippines, noted for its Art Deco architecture and its role in the city’s early business and cultural life.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.