Singer House

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Singer House is a historic Art Nouveau building in Saint Petersburg, Russia, famed for its distinctive glass dome and for housing the city’s main Dom Knigi bookstore.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Singer House canonical 5
Дом компании Зингер 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Art Nouveau architecture
building
historic building
architect Pavel Suzor
architecturalStyle Art Nouveau
cityCentreLandmark true
continent Europe
country Russia
elevationFeature one of the first high-rise commercial buildings on Nevsky Prospekt
endDate 1904
floorCount 7
formerName House of the Book
function commercial building
hasAddressCity St. Petersburg
surface form: Saint Petersburg
hasAddressCountry Russia
hasDome glass dome
hasFeature metal framing
ornamental facade
panoramic windows
hasPart corner tower
glass dome
hasSculpture Atlantes figures
female allegorical figures
hasViewOf Kazan Cathedral
Nevsky Prospekt
heritageDesignationAuthority Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
heritageStatus cultural heritage monument of federal significance in Russia
localName House of the Book
surface form: Дом книги

Singer House self-linksurface differs
surface form: Дом компании Зингер
locatedIn Nevsky Prospekt
St. Petersburg
surface form: Saint Petersburg

Tsentralny District of Saint Petersburg
surface form: Tsentralny District, Saint Petersburg
locatedNear Griboyedov Canal
Kazan Cathedral
locatedOn Nevsky Prospekt 28
material stone
namedAfter Singer Sewing Machine Company
notableFor Art Nouveau facade
distinctive glass dome
housing the main Dom Knigi bookstore in Saint Petersburg
occupant Dom Knigi bookstore
originalOwner Singer Sewing Machine Company
roofMaterial copper
startDate 1902
touristAttraction true
use bookstore
office building

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: Singer House
Description of subject: Singer House is a historic Art Nouveau building in Saint Petersburg, Russia, famed for its distinctive glass dome and for housing the city’s main Dom Knigi bookstore.

Referenced by (6)

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

Nevsky Prospekt hasLandmark Singer House
Singer House localName Singer House self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Дом компании Зингер
Dom Knigi bookstore locatedIn Singer House
Dom Knigi bookstore partOfBuilding Singer House
House of the Book formerNameOf Singer House