Springfield Police Station façade
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The Springfield Police Station façade is the recognizable exterior of the town’s law enforcement headquarters in The Simpsons’ fictional setting of Springfield.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Springfield Police Station | 1 |
| Springfield Police Station façade canonical | 1 |
| sign reading "Springfield Police Station" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1760462 — 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: Springfield Police Station façade Context triple: [Springfield, U.S.A., featuresLocation, Springfield Police Station façade]
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A.
Newton City Hall
Newton City Hall is the main municipal government building and administrative center for the city of Newton, Massachusetts.
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B.
William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building
The William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building is a historic government complex in Washington, D.C., that houses major federal offices and serves as the central workplace for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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C.
Springfield Downtown Historic District
The Springfield Downtown Historic District is a central area of Springfield, Ohio, recognized for its concentration of historically and architecturally significant commercial and civic buildings that reflect the city’s development from the late 19th to early 20th centuries.
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D.
Springfield Union Station
Springfield Union Station is a historic intermodal transportation hub in downtown Springfield, Massachusetts, serving as a major regional center for rail and bus travel.
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E.
Dirksen Federal Building
The Dirksen Federal Building is a major federal office skyscraper in Chicago that houses U.S. courts and government agencies as part of the city’s downtown civic center complex.
- 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: Springfield Police Station façade Target entity description: The Springfield Police Station façade is the recognizable exterior of the town’s law enforcement headquarters in The Simpsons’ fictional setting of Springfield.
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A.
Newton City Hall
Newton City Hall is the main municipal government building and administrative center for the city of Newton, Massachusetts.
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B.
William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building
The William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building is a historic government complex in Washington, D.C., that houses major federal offices and serves as the central workplace for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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C.
Springfield Downtown Historic District
The Springfield Downtown Historic District is a central area of Springfield, Ohio, recognized for its concentration of historically and architecturally significant commercial and civic buildings that reflect the city’s development from the late 19th to early 20th centuries.
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D.
Springfield Union Station
Springfield Union Station is a historic intermodal transportation hub in downtown Springfield, Massachusetts, serving as a major regional center for rail and bus travel.
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E.
Dirksen Federal Building
The Dirksen Federal Building is a major federal office skyscraper in Chicago that houses U.S. courts and government agencies as part of the city’s downtown civic center complex.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional building façade
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television location ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Simpsons ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium |
promotional artwork for The Simpsons
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Chief Wiggum
ⓘ
Eddie ⓘ Lou ⓘ |
| associatedWithOrganization | Springfield Police Department ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creatorOfUniverse | Matt Groening ⓘ |
| depicts | law enforcement headquarters exterior ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
The Simpsons
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surface form:
The Simpsons universe
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| firstAppearanceWork | The Simpsons ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | animated sitcom ⓘ |
| hasFunctionInFiction | police station entrance ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedInFictional | Springfield ⓘ |
| medium | animated television series ⓘ |
| partOf |
Springfield Police Station façade
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Springfield Police Station
|
| productionCompanyOfWork |
20th Television
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Gracie Films ⓘ |
| relatedLocation |
Kwik-E-Mart
ⓘ
Moe’s Tavern ⓘ
surface form:
Moe's Tavern
Springfield Town Hall ⓘ |
| settingType | municipal building ⓘ |
| usedForNarrativePurpose |
establishing shot for police-related scenes
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visual cue for law enforcement setting ⓘ |
| visualFeature |
double front doors
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front steps leading to main doors ⓘ masonry exterior ⓘ Springfield Police Station façade self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
sign reading "Springfield Police Station"
|
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: Springfield Police Station façade Description of subject: The Springfield Police Station façade is the recognizable exterior of the town’s law enforcement headquarters in The Simpsons’ fictional setting of Springfield.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Springfield Police Station façade
→
partOf
→
Springfield Police Station façade
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Springfield Police Station
Springfield Police Station façade
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visualFeature
→
Springfield Police Station façade
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
sign reading "Springfield Police Station"