Tacoma Union Station
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Tacoma Union Station is a historic former train station in Tacoma, Washington, renowned for its grand Beaux-Arts architecture and current use as a federal courthouse and public event space.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Union Station (Tacoma, Washington) | 2 |
| Tacoma Union Station canonical | 1 |
| Union Station (Tacoma) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5244581 — 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: Tacoma Union Station Context triple: [Washington State History Museum, nearby, Tacoma Union Station]
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A.
Seattle King Street Station
Seattle King Street Station is a historic railway terminal in downtown Seattle that serves as a major Amtrak and commuter rail hub for the Pacific Northwest.
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B.
SODO Station
SODO Station is a light rail station in Seattle’s SoDo (South of Downtown) industrial district, serving commuters and providing access to nearby warehouses, offices, and sports venues.
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C.
Portland Union Station
Portland Union Station is a historic railway terminal in Portland, Oregon, serving as a major Amtrak hub for intercity passenger trains in the Pacific Northwest.
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D.
Northwest Transit Center
Northwest Transit Center is a major Houston METRO bus facility in northwest Houston that serves as a key transfer point for multiple local and express routes.
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E.
Tacoma Municipal Building
Tacoma Municipal Building is the historic city hall and primary government center for the city of Tacoma, Washington.
- 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: Tacoma Union Station Target entity description: Tacoma Union Station is a historic former train station in Tacoma, Washington, renowned for its grand Beaux-Arts architecture and current use as a federal courthouse and public event space.
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A.
Seattle King Street Station
Seattle King Street Station is a historic railway terminal in downtown Seattle that serves as a major Amtrak and commuter rail hub for the Pacific Northwest.
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B.
SODO Station
SODO Station is a light rail station in Seattle’s SoDo (South of Downtown) industrial district, serving commuters and providing access to nearby warehouses, offices, and sports venues.
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C.
Portland Union Station
Portland Union Station is a historic railway terminal in Portland, Oregon, serving as a major Amtrak hub for intercity passenger trains in the Pacific Northwest.
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D.
Northwest Transit Center
Northwest Transit Center is a major Houston METRO bus facility in northwest Houston that serves as a key transfer point for multiple local and express routes.
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E.
Tacoma Municipal Building
Tacoma Municipal Building is the historic city hall and primary government center for the city of Tacoma, Washington.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
courthouse
ⓘ
former train station ⓘ historic building ⓘ railway station ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Beaux-Arts
ⓘ
surface form:
Beaux-Arts architecture
Neoclassical architecture ⓘ |
| associatedWithArtist | Dale Chihuly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Beaux-Arts architecture in Washington (state)
ⓘ
Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state) ⓘ |
| city | Tacoma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closingDate | 1984 ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1909 ⓘ |
| convertedToCourthouse | 1990s ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| currentUse |
United States District Court for the Western District of Washington
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
venue for public events and exhibitions ⓘ |
| formerService | intercity passenger rail ⓘ |
| hasDome | yes ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
arched windows
ⓘ
classical columns ⓘ grand rotunda ⓘ large central dome ⓘ ornate interior detailing ⓘ |
| hasFunction | symbolic gateway to downtown Tacoma ⓘ |
| hasName | Tacoma Union Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPublicArt | glass art installations ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| inception | early 20th century ⓘ |
| listedOnNRHP | 1974 ⓘ |
| locatedInDowntown | yes ⓘ |
| locatedInHistoricDistrict | Union Station District (Tacoma) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Thea Foss Waterway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Washington Tacoma campus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location | Tacoma, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyTransit | Tacoma Link light rail NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1911 ⓘ |
| ownedBy | United States General Services Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Amtrak network (historically)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Burlington Northern Railroad network (historically) NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern Pacific Railway network (historically) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| railwayStationUsage | former passenger station ⓘ |
| servedCity | Tacoma, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significance | example of early 20th-century Beaux-Arts railroad architecture in the Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| transportModeServed | rail ⓘ |
| usedAs |
federal courthouse
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office building ⓘ public event space ⓘ |
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: Tacoma Union Station Description of subject: Tacoma Union Station is a historic former train station in Tacoma, Washington, renowned for its grand Beaux-Arts architecture and current use as a federal courthouse and public event space.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Union Station (Tacoma, Washington)
this entity surface form:
Union Station (Tacoma, Washington)
subject surface form:
Downtown Tacoma
this entity surface form:
Union Station (Tacoma)