Ohio State Reformatory

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The Ohio State Reformatory is a historic former prison in Mansfield, Ohio, best known for serving as the primary filming location of the acclaimed film "The Shawshank Redemption."

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Label Occurrences
Ohio State Reformatory canonical 2

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf film location
former prison
historic prison
tourist attraction
architect Levi T. Scofield
architecturalStyle Queen Anne
Richardsonian Romanesque
Neo-Romanesque
surface form: Romanesque Revival
closed 1990
constructionCompleted 1910
constructionStarted 1886
country United States of America
surface form: United States
designedFor young first-time offenders
fictionalCounterpart Shawshank State Penitentiary
formerName Mansfield Reformatory
hasEvent Halloween haunted attraction
car shows
concerts
paranormal investigation events
hasFeature administration building
castle-like façade
cell blocks
central guard room
chapel
hasTour Shawshank Redemption filming location tours
ghost tours
historical tours
hasUse event venue
film production location
museum
tour venue
hasWebsite https://www.mrps.org/
heritageDesignation National Register of Historic Places
surface form: National Register of Historic Places listing
heritageDesignationDate 1983
inception 1886
locatedIn Mansfield, Ohio
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory Ohio
Richland County, Ohio
locatedInTimeZone Eastern Time Zone
notableWorkFilmedHere Air Force One
Tango & Cash
The Shawshank Redemption (1994 film)
surface form: The Shawshank Redemption

music videos
NRHPReferenceNumber 83002052
opened 1896
operator Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society
ownedBy Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society
securityClassification maximum security
medium security
usedAs primary filming location for The Shawshank Redemption

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: Ohio State Reformatory
Description of subject: The Ohio State Reformatory is a historic former prison in Mansfield, Ohio, best known for serving as the primary filming location of the acclaimed film "The Shawshank Redemption."

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

The Shawshank Redemption (1994 film) filmingLocation Ohio State Reformatory
subject surface form: The Shawshank Redemption
Richland County, Ohio hasAttraction Ohio State Reformatory