United States Capitol
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The United States Capitol is the iconic neoclassical building in Washington, D.C., that houses the U.S. Congress and serves as a central symbol of American democracy.
All labels observed (42)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1149 — 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: United States Capitol Context triple: [Washington, D.C., hostsInstitution, United States Capitol]
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White House
The White House is the official residence and primary workplace of the president of the United States, located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.
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Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is the United States’ national cultural center and a major venue in Washington, D.C. for theater, music, dance, and other performing arts.
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United Nations Headquarters
The United Nations Headquarters is the main administrative and diplomatic center of the UN, where representatives of member states convene to discuss and address global issues.
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Union Station
Union Station is a historic Beaux-Arts transportation hub and major intercity rail terminal in Washington, D.C., serving as a gateway to the U.S. capital.
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Washington Monument
The Washington Monument is a towering white marble obelisk on the National Mall that honors George Washington, the first president of the United States.
- 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: United States Capitol Target entity description: The United States Capitol is the iconic neoclassical building in Washington, D.C., that houses the U.S. Congress and serves as a central symbol of American democracy.
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A.
White House
The White House is the official residence and primary workplace of the president of the United States, located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.
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B.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is the United States’ national cultural center and a major venue in Washington, D.C. for theater, music, dance, and other performing arts.
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C.
United Nations Headquarters
The United Nations Headquarters is the main administrative and diplomatic center of the UN, where representatives of member states convene to discuss and address global issues.
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D.
Union Station
Union Station is a historic Beaux-Arts transportation hub and major intercity rail terminal in Washington, D.C., serving as a gateway to the U.S. capital.
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E.
Washington Monument
The Washington Monument is a towering white marble obelisk on the National Mall that honors George Washington, the first president of the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: United States Capitol Description of subject: The United States Capitol is the iconic neoclassical building in Washington, D.C., that houses the U.S. Congress and serves as a central symbol of American democracy.
Referenced by (467)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
United States Capitol (statue in National Statuary Hall)
this entity surface form:
U.S. Capitol
this entity surface form:
U.S. Capitol
this entity surface form:
temporary U.S. Capitol
subject surface form:
U.S. Congress
subject surface form:
Capitol South station
this entity surface form:
U.S. Capitol
this entity surface form:
United States Capitol dome
this entity surface form:
United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.
2009 U.S. presidential inauguration of Barack Obama
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oathOfOfficeLocation
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United States Capitol
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this entity surface form:
West Front of the United States Capitol
United States House of Representatives Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
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seat
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United States Capitol
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this entity surface form:
West Front of the United States Capitol
this entity surface form:
United States Capitol (original design and completion of central portion)