The Rookery
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The Rookery is a historic Chicago office building renowned for its pioneering commercial architecture and its redesigned light court by Frank Lloyd Wright.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Rookery canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3543458 — 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: The Rookery Context triple: [The Rookery Building, hasAlternateName, The Rookery]
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A.
Sycamore Row
Sycamore Row is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that revisits the characters from A Time to Kill in a racially charged inheritance dispute in Mississippi.
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B.
The Eyrie
The Eyrie is a lofty, impregnable castle of House Arryn perched high in the Mountains of the Moon in the world of Westeros from "A Song of Ice and Fire" and "Game of Thrones."
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C.
The Ward
The Ward is a 2010 psychological horror film directed by John Carpenter, following a young woman confined to a mysterious psychiatric institution where terrifying events unfold.
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D.
Asylum Hill
Asylum Hill is a historic neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut, known for its Victorian architecture, major insurance company headquarters, and cultural institutions.
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E.
The Elms
The Elms is a grand Gilded Age mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, renowned for its opulent architecture and historic significance as a former summer residence of the American elite.
- 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: The Rookery Target entity description: The Rookery is a historic Chicago office building renowned for its pioneering commercial architecture and its redesigned light court by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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A.
Sycamore Row
Sycamore Row is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that revisits the characters from A Time to Kill in a racially charged inheritance dispute in Mississippi.
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B.
The Eyrie
The Eyrie is a lofty, impregnable castle of House Arryn perched high in the Mountains of the Moon in the world of Westeros from "A Song of Ice and Fire" and "Game of Thrones."
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C.
The Ward
The Ward is a 2010 psychological horror film directed by John Carpenter, following a young woman confined to a mysterious psychiatric institution where terrifying events unfold.
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D.
Asylum Hill
Asylum Hill is a historic neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut, known for its Victorian architecture, major insurance company headquarters, and cultural institutions.
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E.
The Elms
The Elms is a grand Gilded Age mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, renowned for its opulent architecture and historic significance as a former summer residence of the American elite.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chicago Landmark
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commercial building ⓘ historic building ⓘ office building ⓘ skyscraper ⓘ |
| addedToNationalRegisterOfHistoricPlaces | 1970 ⓘ |
| address | 209 South LaSalle Street ⓘ |
| architect |
Daniel Burnham
ⓘ
surface form:
Daniel H. Burnham
John Wellborn Root ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Chicago School architecture
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago School
Queen Anne ⓘ Neo-Romanesque ⓘ
surface form:
Romanesque Revival
|
| builtFor | Central Safety Deposit Company ⓘ |
| constructionStartYear | 1886 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| designatedChicagoLandmark | 1972 ⓘ |
| floorPlanType | courtyard building ⓘ |
| function | office space ⓘ |
| hasAtrium | central light court ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
glass and iron light well ceiling
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grand staircase ⓘ ornamental ironwork ⓘ |
| hasLobby | ornate marble and iron lobby ⓘ |
| hasPart | light court ⓘ |
| hasRenovation |
Frank Lloyd Wright light court remodeling 1905–1907
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restoration by McClier and Daprato Rigali Studios 1989–1992 ⓘ |
| height | approximately 181 feet ⓘ |
| interiorDesigner | Frank Lloyd Wright ⓘ |
| lightCourtRedesignedBy | Frank Lloyd Wright ⓘ |
| location |
Chicago
ⓘ
Illinois ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| material |
brown brick
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iron frame ⓘ load-bearing masonry ⓘ red granite ⓘ |
| namedAfter | rooks (crows) that nested in the previous City Hall building on the site ⓘ |
| neighborhood | Chicago Loop ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early steel-frame structural system
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innovative light court design ⓘ pioneering commercial architecture ⓘ |
| NRHPReferenceNumber | 70000233 ⓘ |
| owner |
The Rookery Building
ⓘ
surface form:
The Rookery Building LLC
|
| stories | 12 ⓘ |
| structuralSystem | iron framing with masonry bearing walls ⓘ |
| yearCompleted | 1888 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Rookery Description of subject: The Rookery is a historic Chicago office building renowned for its pioneering commercial architecture and its redesigned light court by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.