Chicago Savings Bank Building
E320108
The Chicago Savings Bank Building is a historic Chicago high-rise designed by architect Martin Roche, notable for its early skyscraper architecture and role in the city’s commercial development.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chicago Building | 1 |
| Chicago Savings Bank Building canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2930748 — 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: Chicago Savings Bank Building Context triple: [Martin Roche, notableWork, Chicago Savings Bank Building]
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A.
Republic Building (Chicago)
The Republic Building in Chicago was a historic early skyscraper designed in the Chicago School style, exemplifying the commercial architecture of the late 19th century.
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B.
Santa Fe Building (Chicago)
The Santa Fe Building in Chicago is a historic early 20th-century office skyscraper in the Chicago Loop, notable for its Beaux-Arts design and prominent location along Michigan Avenue.
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C.
Chicago Tribune Tower
Chicago Tribune Tower is a neo-Gothic skyscraper in Chicago that serves as the historic former headquarters of the Chicago Tribune newspaper.
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D.
Carson Pirie Scott Building
The Carson Pirie Scott Building is a landmark Chicago department store structure renowned for its steel-frame construction and elaborate cast-iron ornamentation, exemplifying the Chicago School of architecture.
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E.
Gage Building (Chicago)
The Gage Building in Chicago is a historic early skyscraper on Michigan Avenue, renowned for its Chicago School architecture and ornamental façade designed in part by Louis Sullivan.
- 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: Chicago Savings Bank Building Target entity description: The Chicago Savings Bank Building is a historic Chicago high-rise designed by architect Martin Roche, notable for its early skyscraper architecture and role in the city’s commercial development.
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A.
Republic Building (Chicago)
The Republic Building in Chicago was a historic early skyscraper designed in the Chicago School style, exemplifying the commercial architecture of the late 19th century.
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B.
Santa Fe Building (Chicago)
The Santa Fe Building in Chicago is a historic early 20th-century office skyscraper in the Chicago Loop, notable for its Beaux-Arts design and prominent location along Michigan Avenue.
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C.
Chicago Tribune Tower
Chicago Tribune Tower is a neo-Gothic skyscraper in Chicago that serves as the historic former headquarters of the Chicago Tribune newspaper.
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D.
Carson Pirie Scott Building
The Carson Pirie Scott Building is a landmark Chicago department store structure renowned for its steel-frame construction and elaborate cast-iron ornamentation, exemplifying the Chicago School of architecture.
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E.
Gage Building (Chicago)
The Gage Building in Chicago is a historic early skyscraper on Michigan Avenue, renowned for its Chicago School architecture and ornamental façade designed in part by Louis Sullivan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial building
ⓘ
high-rise building ⓘ historic building ⓘ |
| architect | Martin Roche ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | early skyscraper ⓘ |
| category |
Bank buildings in Illinois
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Historic buildings in Chicago ⓘ Skyscraper office buildings in Chicago ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasFeature |
elevator
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multiple stories ⓘ street-level banking hall ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
bank offices
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office space ⓘ |
| hasMaterial |
masonry cladding
ⓘ
steel frame ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago
Chicago Loop ⓘ Illinois ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Chicago Savings Bank ⓘ |
| partOf |
Downtown Chicago area
ⓘ
surface form:
downtown Chicago
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| significance |
early example of skyscraper architecture in Chicago
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role in Chicago commercial development ⓘ |
| use | commercial ⓘ |
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: Chicago Savings Bank Building Description of subject: The Chicago Savings Bank Building is a historic Chicago high-rise designed by architect Martin Roche, notable for its early skyscraper architecture and role in the city’s commercial development.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Holabird & Roche
this entity surface form:
Chicago Building