Jefferson Market Library
E116771
Jefferson Market Library is a historic former courthouse in New York City's Greenwich Village that now serves as a public branch of the New York Public Library.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jefferson Market Branch of the New York Public Library | 1 |
| Jefferson Market Library canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T916390 — 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: Jefferson Market Library Context triple: [Jefferson Market Courthouse, alsoKnownAs, Jefferson Market Library]
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A.
Lenox Library
Lenox Library is a historic public library and cultural institution in Lenox, Massachusetts, known for its architectural significance and role as a community center.
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B.
Newburgh Free Library
Newburgh Free Library is a public library serving the Newburgh, New York community as a key center for information, education, and local cultural resources.
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C.
Thomas Crane Public Library
Thomas Crane Public Library is a landmark Romanesque Revival public library building in Quincy, Massachusetts, celebrated as one of architect Henry Hobson Richardson’s masterpieces.
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D.
Mid-Manhattan Library
The Mid-Manhattan Library is a major circulating branch of the New York Public Library system in Manhattan, known for its extensive general-interest collections and public services.
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E.
Dewey Library
Dewey Library is a specialized library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focused on management, business, and social science resources.
- 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: Jefferson Market Library Target entity description: Jefferson Market Library is a historic former courthouse in New York City's Greenwich Village that now serves as a public branch of the New York Public Library.
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A.
Lenox Library
Lenox Library is a historic public library and cultural institution in Lenox, Massachusetts, known for its architectural significance and role as a community center.
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B.
Newburgh Free Library
Newburgh Free Library is a public library serving the Newburgh, New York community as a key center for information, education, and local cultural resources.
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C.
Thomas Crane Public Library
Thomas Crane Public Library is a landmark Romanesque Revival public library building in Quincy, Massachusetts, celebrated as one of architect Henry Hobson Richardson’s masterpieces.
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D.
Mid-Manhattan Library
The Mid-Manhattan Library is a major circulating branch of the New York Public Library system in Manhattan, known for its extensive general-interest collections and public services.
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E.
Dewey Library
Dewey Library is a specialized library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focused on management, business, and social science resources.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
branch library
ⓘ
former courthouse ⓘ historic building ⓘ public library ⓘ |
| affiliation | New York Public Library ⓘ |
| architect |
Calvert Vaux
ⓘ
Frederick Clarke Withers ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Gothic Revival
ⓘ
surface form:
High Victorian Gothic
Gothic Revival ⓘ
surface form:
Victorian Gothic Revival
|
| borough | Manhattan ⓘ |
| buildingType |
civic building
ⓘ
library building ⓘ |
| category |
Historic buildings in New York City
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Libraries in Manhattan ⓘ New York Public Library branches ⓘ |
| collectionType |
circulating books
ⓘ
periodicals ⓘ reference materials ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| formerFunction |
Third Judicial District Courthouse
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courthouse ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
brick facade
ⓘ
clock tower ⓘ garden ⓘ reading rooms ⓘ stained glass windows ⓘ |
| hasService |
adult programs
ⓘ
children's programs ⓘ community events ⓘ public computers ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
U.S. National Register of Historic Places contributing property
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surface form:
National Register of Historic Places contributing property
New York City Landmark ⓘ |
| location |
Greenwich Village
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Manhattan ⓘ New York City ⓘ |
| neighborhood | Greenwich Village ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Gothic Revival architecture
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adaptive reuse from courthouse to library ⓘ distinctive clock tower ⓘ |
| operator | New York Public Library ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
New York City
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surface form:
City of New York
|
| partOf |
New York Public Library
ⓘ
surface form:
New York Public Library system
|
| publicAccess | yes ⓘ |
| serves | local community of Greenwich Village ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 425 Avenue of the Americas ⓘ |
| use | public library services ⓘ |
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: Jefferson Market Library Description of subject: Jefferson Market Library is a historic former courthouse in New York City's Greenwich Village that now serves as a public branch of the New York Public Library.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jefferson Market Branch of the New York Public Library