Bank of California Building (Seattle)
E175636
The Bank of California Building in Seattle is a historic downtown high-rise office building known for its mid-20th-century modernist architecture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bank of California Building (Seattle) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1545302 — 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: Bank of California Building (Seattle) Context triple: [John Graham & Company, notableWork, Bank of California Building (Seattle)]
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A.
Portland Building
The Portland Building is a landmark postmodern office building in downtown Portland, Oregon, designed by architect Michael Graves and noted for its colorful, ornamental façade.
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B.
Bellevue City Hall
Bellevue City Hall is the primary municipal government building and administrative center for the city of Bellevue, Washington.
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C.
Ahmanson Building
The Ahmanson Building is a major gallery and exhibition space within the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, housing significant portions of its art collections.
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D.
Wallberg Building
The Wallberg Building is an academic facility at the University of Toronto, primarily associated with engineering and related disciplines.
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E.
Portland City Hall
Portland City Hall is the historic municipal building in downtown Portland, Oregon, that houses the offices and chambers of the city’s government.
- 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: Bank of California Building (Seattle) Target entity description: The Bank of California Building in Seattle is a historic downtown high-rise office building known for its mid-20th-century modernist architecture.
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A.
Portland Building
The Portland Building is a landmark postmodern office building in downtown Portland, Oregon, designed by architect Michael Graves and noted for its colorful, ornamental façade.
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B.
Bellevue City Hall
Bellevue City Hall is the primary municipal government building and administrative center for the city of Bellevue, Washington.
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C.
Ahmanson Building
The Ahmanson Building is a major gallery and exhibition space within the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, housing significant portions of its art collections.
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D.
Wallberg Building
The Wallberg Building is an academic facility at the University of Toronto, primarily associated with engineering and related disciplines.
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E.
Portland City Hall
Portland City Hall is the historic municipal building in downtown Portland, Oregon, that houses the offices and chambers of the city’s government.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial building
ⓘ
high-rise building ⓘ historic building ⓘ modernist building ⓘ office building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Modernist architecture
ⓘ
mid-20th-century modernism ⓘ |
| category |
Commercial buildings in Seattle
ⓘ
Historic buildings in Seattle ⓘ Modernist architecture in Washington (state) ⓘ Skyscraper office buildings in Seattle ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasFloorsAboveGround | high-rise ⓘ |
| hasFunction | commercial offices ⓘ |
| hasMainTenant |
Bank of California
ⓘ
surface form:
Bank of California (historically)
|
| heritageStatus | historic ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Seattle skyline ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
downtown Seattle
ⓘ
surface form:
Downtown Seattle
King County ⓘ
surface form:
King County, Washington
Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Washington (state)
|
| locatedInTime | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| location | Seattle, Washington, United States ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Bank of California ⓘ |
| partOf | central business district of Seattle ⓘ |
| use | office ⓘ |
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: Bank of California Building (Seattle) Description of subject: The Bank of California Building in Seattle is a historic downtown high-rise office building known for its mid-20th-century modernist architecture.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.