Texas School Book Depository
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The Texas School Book Depository is a historic Dallas building best known as the site from which Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly shot President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Texas School Book Depository canonical | 8 |
| Texas School Book Depository Company | 1 |
| former Texas School Book Depository | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T210131 — 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: Texas School Book Depository Context triple: [Triple Underpass, near, Texas School Book Depository]
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A.
Douglas Library
Douglas Library is a major academic library at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, serving as a central resource for research and study across multiple disciplines.
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B.
Uvalde, Texas
Uvalde, Texas is a small city in South Texas known historically as a ranching and agricultural center and as the longtime home of U.S. Vice President John Nance Garner.
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C.
Powell’s City of Books
Powell’s City of Books is a famed independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, renowned as one of the world’s largest new and used bookstores, occupying an entire city block.
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D.
Dewey Library
Dewey Library is a specialized library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focused on management, business, and social science resources.
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E.
Founders Library
Founders Library is the iconic main research library of Howard University and a historic landmark of African American scholarship in Washington, D.C.
- 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: Texas School Book Depository Target entity description: The Texas School Book Depository is a historic Dallas building best known as the site from which Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly shot President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
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A.
Douglas Library
Douglas Library is a major academic library at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, serving as a central resource for research and study across multiple disciplines.
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B.
Uvalde, Texas
Uvalde, Texas is a small city in South Texas known historically as a ranching and agricultural center and as the longtime home of U.S. Vice President John Nance Garner.
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C.
Powell’s City of Books
Powell’s City of Books is a famed independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, renowned as one of the world’s largest new and used bookstores, occupying an entire city block.
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D.
Dewey Library
Dewey Library is a specialized library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focused on management, business, and social science resources.
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E.
Founders Library
Founders Library is the iconic main research library of Howard University and a historic landmark of African American scholarship in Washington, D.C.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building
ⓘ
historic site ⓘ |
| allegedShooterLocation | sixth floor ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Commercial style ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Lee Harvey Oswald ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Dallas, Texas
ⓘ
Historic sites in Texas ⓘ Museums in Dallas, Texas ⓘ Presidential assassination sites ⓘ |
| city |
Dallas, Texas
ⓘ
surface form:
Dallas
|
| completionDate | 1903 ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 1901 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| currentUse |
county offices
ⓘ
museum ⓘ |
| dateOfEvent | 1963-11-22 ⓘ |
| floorCountRelevantToEvent | 6 ⓘ |
| hasExhibit |
exhibits on 1960s American culture and politics
ⓘ
permanent exhibition on John F. Kennedy’s assassination ⓘ |
| hasNameVariant | Dallas County Administration Building ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| houses | The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Dealey Plaza ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Elm Street
ⓘ
Grassy Knoll ⓘ Houston Street ⓘ |
| location |
Dallas, Texas
ⓘ
surface form:
Dallas, Texas, United States
|
| material | red brick ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Assassination of John F. Kennedy ⓘ |
| nrhpListingDate | 1978 ⓘ |
| nrhpType | contributing property ⓘ |
| numberOfFloors | 7 ⓘ |
| originalUse |
commercial building
ⓘ
warehouse ⓘ |
| overlooks | Dealey Plaza ⓘ |
| owner |
Dallas County, Texas
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surface form:
Dallas County
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| partOf |
Dealey Plaza
ⓘ
surface form:
Dealey Plaza Historic District
|
| significance | central location in investigations of JFK assassination ⓘ |
| significantFor | site of sniper’s perch in JFK assassination ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 411 Elm Street ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | true ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Texas School Book Depository
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Texas School Book Depository Company
|
| usedFor |
book distribution
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textbook storage ⓘ |
| visitedBy | tourists ⓘ |
| visitedFor | historical significance ⓘ |
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: Texas School Book Depository Description of subject: The Texas School Book Depository is a historic Dallas building best known as the site from which Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly shot President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Elm Street (Dallas)
this entity surface form:
Texas School Book Depository Company
subject surface form:
Houston Street (Dallas)
subject surface form:
John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza
this entity surface form:
former Texas School Book Depository