RCA Victor Building (Newark)
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Art Deco building
commercial building
historic building
industrial building
office building
skyscraper
The RCA Victor Building in Newark is a historic Art Deco skyscraper designed by the prominent architectural firm Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, known for its role in early 20th-century commercial and industrial development.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| RCA Victor Building (Newark) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T234707 — 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: RCA Victor Building (Newark) Context triple: [Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, notableWork, RCA Victor Building (Newark)]
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A.
Capitol Records Building
The Capitol Records Building is an iconic, circular high-rise in Hollywood, Los Angeles, famous for its resemblance to a stack of vinyl records and its role as a historic recording industry landmark.
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B.
Edison station
Edison station is a New Jersey Transit commuter rail stop on the Northeast Corridor Line serving the township of Edison, New Jersey.
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C.
Singer House
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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D.
Brooks Building
The Brooks Building is a key teaching and learning facility of Manchester Metropolitan University, known for housing education and health-related disciplines in modern, sustainable spaces.
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E.
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a world-renowned concert venue in New York City celebrated for its exceptional acoustics and historic role in classical and popular music performance.
- 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: RCA Victor Building (Newark) Target entity description: The RCA Victor Building in Newark is a historic Art Deco skyscraper designed by the prominent architectural firm Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, known for its role in early 20th-century commercial and industrial development.
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A.
Capitol Records Building
The Capitol Records Building is an iconic, circular high-rise in Hollywood, Los Angeles, famous for its resemblance to a stack of vinyl records and its role as a historic recording industry landmark.
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B.
Edison station
Edison station is a New Jersey Transit commuter rail stop on the Northeast Corridor Line serving the township of Edison, New Jersey.
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C.
Singer House
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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D.
Brooks Building
The Brooks Building is a key teaching and learning facility of Manchester Metropolitan University, known for housing education and health-related disciplines in modern, sustainable spaces.
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E.
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a world-renowned concert venue in New York City celebrated for its exceptional acoustics and historic role in classical and popular music performance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Art Deco building
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commercial building ⓘ historic building ⓘ industrial building ⓘ office building ⓘ skyscraper ⓘ |
| architect | Shreve, Lamb & Harmon ⓘ |
| architecturalFirm | Shreve, Lamb & Harmon ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Art Deco ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| hasArchitecturalType | skyscraper ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Newark, New Jersey, United States
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surface form:
Newark, New Jersey
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| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Essex County, New Jersey
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New Jersey, United States ⓘ
surface form:
New Jersey
Newark ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| namedAfter | RCA Victor ⓘ |
| occupantOrFormerOccupant | RCA Victor ⓘ |
| partOf |
early 20th-century commercial development in Newark
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early 20th-century industrial development in Newark ⓘ |
| significantProjectOf | Shreve, Lamb & Harmon ⓘ |
| use |
commercial
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industrial ⓘ |
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: RCA Victor Building (Newark) Description of subject: The RCA Victor Building in Newark is a historic Art Deco skyscraper designed by the prominent architectural firm Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, known for its role in early 20th-century commercial and industrial development.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
subject surface form:
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon