90 West Street
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New York City Landmark
contributing property to a historic district
historic building
mixed-use building
office building
residential building
skyscraper
90 West Street is a historic early 20th-century skyscraper in Lower Manhattan, New York City, known for its neo-Gothic design and status as one of architect H. Craig Severance’s prominent works.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 90 West Street canonical | 1 |
| 90 West Street, New York City | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11373635 — 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: 90 West Street Context triple: [H. Craig Severance, notableWork, 90 West Street]
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A.
185 West Broadway
185 West Broadway is a primary academic and administrative building of New York Law School in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood.
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B.
614 Broadway
614 Broadway is the Staten Island address that serves as the location of the Staten Island Zoo in New York City.
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C.
250 Vesey Street
250 Vesey Street is an office skyscraper in Lower Manhattan that forms part of the Brookfield Place (formerly World Financial Center) complex overlooking the Hudson River.
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D.
200 Vesey Street
200 Vesey Street is a prominent office skyscraper in Lower Manhattan that forms part of the World Financial Center complex overlooking the Hudson River.
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E.
1540 Broadway
1540 Broadway is a prominent commercial skyscraper in New York City's Times Square, known for its office space and large illuminated advertising displays.
- 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: 90 West Street Target entity description: 90 West Street is a historic early 20th-century skyscraper in Lower Manhattan, New York City, known for its neo-Gothic design and status as one of architect H. Craig Severance’s prominent works.
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A.
185 West Broadway
185 West Broadway is a primary academic and administrative building of New York Law School in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood.
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B.
614 Broadway
614 Broadway is the Staten Island address that serves as the location of the Staten Island Zoo in New York City.
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C.
250 Vesey Street
250 Vesey Street is an office skyscraper in Lower Manhattan that forms part of the Brookfield Place (formerly World Financial Center) complex overlooking the Hudson River.
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D.
200 Vesey Street
200 Vesey Street is a prominent office skyscraper in Lower Manhattan that forms part of the World Financial Center complex overlooking the Hudson River.
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E.
1540 Broadway
1540 Broadway is a prominent commercial skyscraper in New York City's Times Square, known for its office space and large illuminated advertising displays.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New York City Landmark
ⓘ
contributing property to a historic district ⓘ historic building ⓘ mixed-use building ⓘ office building ⓘ residential building ⓘ skyscraper ⓘ |
| architect |
H. Craig Severance
ⓘ
W. & J. Sloane (as developer/associated firm) ⓘ
linked to:
W. & J. Sloane
|
| architecturalStyle |
Gothic Revival
ⓘ
Neo-Gothic ⓘ |
| borough | Manhattan ⓘ |
| city | New York City ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1907 ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1905 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| currentUse |
ground-floor retail
ⓘ
residential apartments ⓘ |
| developer | West Street Improvement Company ⓘ |
| floorCount | 23 ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName | West Street Building ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Gothic-style arches
ⓘ
copper-clad mansard roof ⓘ corner turrets ⓘ ornate terra-cotta detailing ⓘ setbacks ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
National Register of Historic Places contributing property
ⓘ
New York City Landmark ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Lower Manhattan
ⓘ
Manhattan ⓘ New York City ⓘ New York State ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| material |
brick
ⓘ
steel frame ⓘ terra cotta ⓘ |
| near |
World Trade Center site
ⓘ
linked to:
World Trade Center (reconstructed complex)
|
| neighborhood | Financial District ⓘ |
| originalUse | office building ⓘ |
| overlooks | Hudson River ⓘ |
| partOf |
Lower Manhattan waterfront skyline
ⓘ
linked to:
Manhattan skyline
|
| renovation | post-9/11 restoration and conversion to residential use ⓘ |
| renovationCompletionDate | mid-2000s ⓘ |
| roofHeight | approximately 324 feet ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 90 West Street ⓘ |
| sufferedDamageType |
fire damage
ⓘ
structural damage ⓘ |
| sufferedEvent | September 11 attacks ⓘ |
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: 90 West Street Description of subject: 90 West Street is a historic early 20th-century skyscraper in Lower Manhattan, New York City, known for its neo-Gothic design and status as one of architect H. Craig Severance’s prominent works.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: 90 West Street