Sam Kee Building
E252814
The Sam Kee Building is a famously narrow historic commercial building in Vancouver, often cited as one of the thinnest office buildings in the world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam Kee Building canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2307827 — 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: Sam Kee Building Context triple: [Chinatown (Vancouver), hasLandmark, Sam Kee Building]
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A.
Sing Chong Building
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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B.
Wo Fat Building
The Wo Fat Building is a historic Chinese-style commercial structure in Honolulu’s Chinatown, long associated with the neighborhood’s cultural and social life.
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C.
Lakeview Building
Lakeview Building is a campus facility of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago that supports its art and design education programs.
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D.
The Rice Building
The Rice Building is a historic, architecturally distinctive commercial structure in downtown Troy, New York, noted for its narrow, triangular “flatiron” form.
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E.
Pacific Place
Pacific Place is an upscale shopping and entertainment center located in the heart of downtown Seattle, Washington.
- 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: Sam Kee Building Target entity description: The Sam Kee Building is a famously narrow historic commercial building in Vancouver, often cited as one of the thinnest office buildings in the world.
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A.
Sing Chong Building
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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B.
Wo Fat Building
The Wo Fat Building is a historic Chinese-style commercial structure in Honolulu’s Chinatown, long associated with the neighborhood’s cultural and social life.
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C.
Lakeview Building
Lakeview Building is a campus facility of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago that supports its art and design education programs.
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D.
The Rice Building
The Rice Building is a historic, architecturally distinctive commercial structure in downtown Troy, New York, noted for its narrow, triangular “flatiron” form.
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E.
Pacific Place
Pacific Place is an upscale shopping and entertainment center located in the heart of downtown Seattle, Washington.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building
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commercial building ⓘ historic building ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | early 20th-century commercial style ⓘ |
| city | Vancouver ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
multiple storeys
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very narrow street frontage ⓘ windows along the narrow facade ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | heritage building in Vancouver ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being extremely narrow
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being one of the thinnest commercial buildings in the world ⓘ historic architecture ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
British Columbia
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Canada ⓘ Vancouver ⓘ |
| locatedInNeighborhood | Chinatown, Vancouver ⓘ |
| material |
brick
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steel ⓘ |
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| partOf |
Millennium Gate (Vancouver Chinatown)
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surface form:
Vancouver Chinatown historic area
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| province | British Columbia ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
| use |
office space
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retail space ⓘ |
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: Sam Kee Building Description of subject: The Sam Kee Building is a famously narrow historic commercial building in Vancouver, often cited as one of the thinnest office buildings in the world.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Chinatown (Vancouver)