weigh house

C19876
concept

A weigh house is a public building historically used for the official weighing of goods, often for trade, taxation, and regulatory purposes.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
weigh house canonical 9

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: weigh house
Generated description
A weigh house is a public building historically used for the official weighing of goods, often for trade, taxation, and regulatory purposes.

Instances (9)

Instance Via concept surface
city scales building
surface form: City Scales Building
Waag Nijmegen
Waag (Amsterdam weighing house)
Waag
surface form: Waag (Grote Markt)
Waag (weigh house)
Waag building
De Waag (Weigh House), Haarlem
Waag building, Delft
Waag (Deventer weigh house)