Sing Chong Building
E16334
Sing Chong Building is a historic, pagoda-topped commercial structure in San Francisco’s Chinatown that serves as one of the neighborhood’s most recognizable architectural landmarks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sing Chong Building canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T138203 — 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: Sing Chong Building Context triple: [Chinatown (San Francisco), hasLandmark, Sing Chong Building]
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A.
Tin How Temple
Tin How Temple is a historic Taoist temple in San Francisco’s Chinatown, dedicated to the sea goddess Mazu and known as one of the oldest Chinese temples in the United States.
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B.
Jin Mao Tower
Jin Mao Tower is a landmark supertall skyscraper in Shanghai, China, known for its distinctive tiered pagoda-inspired design and prominent role in the city’s Pudong skyline.
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C.
Nassif Building
The Nassif Building is a prominent federal office building in Washington, D.C., best known for long serving as the main headquarters of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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D.
Ministry of Communications building
The Ministry of Communications building is a prominent government office block located on Havana’s Plaza de la Revolución, known for its imposing architecture and role in Cuba’s state communications administration.
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E.
Adams Building
The Adams Building is one of the main Library of Congress buildings in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections and reading rooms.
- 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: Sing Chong Building Target entity description: Sing Chong Building is a historic, pagoda-topped commercial structure in San Francisco’s Chinatown that serves as one of the neighborhood’s most recognizable architectural landmarks.
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A.
Tin How Temple
Tin How Temple is a historic Taoist temple in San Francisco’s Chinatown, dedicated to the sea goddess Mazu and known as one of the oldest Chinese temples in the United States.
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B.
Jin Mao Tower
Jin Mao Tower is a landmark supertall skyscraper in Shanghai, China, known for its distinctive tiered pagoda-inspired design and prominent role in the city’s Pudong skyline.
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C.
Nassif Building
The Nassif Building is a prominent federal office building in Washington, D.C., best known for long serving as the main headquarters of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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D.
Ministry of Communications building
The Ministry of Communications building is a prominent government office block located on Havana’s Plaza de la Revolución, known for its imposing architecture and role in Cuba’s state communications administration.
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E.
Adams Building
The Adams Building is one of the main Library of Congress buildings in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections and reading rooms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinatown landmark
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commercial building ⓘ historic building ⓘ landmark ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Chinese Revival architecture
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pagoda-style architecture ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in San Francisco
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San Francisco Chinatown ⓘ
surface form:
Chinatown, San Francisco
Commercial buildings in California ⓘ |
| city | San Francisco ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| function | retail ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic structure ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
San Francisco ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| location | San Francisco Chinatown ⓘ |
| neighborhood | Chinatown ⓘ |
| notableFor |
distinctive Chinese-inspired architecture
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pagoda-topped design ⓘ prominent corner presence in Chinatown ⓘ |
| roofType | pagoda-topped roof ⓘ |
| significance |
architectural landmark of San Francisco Chinatown
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one of the most recognizable buildings in San Francisco Chinatown ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
|
| 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: Sing Chong Building Description of subject: Sing Chong Building is a historic, pagoda-topped commercial structure in San Francisco’s Chinatown that serves as one of the neighborhood’s most recognizable architectural landmarks.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Chinatown (San Francisco)