U.S. Custom House (New Bedford)
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The U.S. Custom House in New Bedford is a historic federal building that served as the center of customs operations during the city’s 19th-century whaling and maritime trade boom.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| U.S. Custom House (New Bedford) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5462637 — 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: U.S. Custom House (New Bedford) Context triple: [New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, contains, U.S. Custom House (New Bedford)]
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A.
U.S. Custom House (Portland, Maine)
The U.S. Custom House in Portland, Maine is a grand 19th-century federal building designed in the Second Empire style, serving historically as a key center for customs and maritime trade administration.
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B.
Customs House
Customs House is a historic waterfront building in Hobart, Tasmania, notable for its colonial architecture and former role in administering maritime trade and customs.
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C.
Customs House
Customs House is a historic neoclassical waterfront building on Shanghai’s Bund, long serving as a key symbol of the city’s colonial-era commercial and maritime trade.
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D.
Long Wharf Custom House Block
Long Wharf Custom House Block is a historic waterfront commercial building in Boston that once served as a key hub for maritime trade and customs operations.
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E.
United States Custom House
The United States Custom House is a historic federal building in New York City that once served as the primary customs collection point for the bustling port, reflecting the city’s central role in American trade and finance.
- 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: U.S. Custom House (New Bedford) Target entity description: The U.S. Custom House in New Bedford is a historic federal building that served as the center of customs operations during the city’s 19th-century whaling and maritime trade boom.
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A.
U.S. Custom House (Portland, Maine)
The U.S. Custom House in Portland, Maine is a grand 19th-century federal building designed in the Second Empire style, serving historically as a key center for customs and maritime trade administration.
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B.
Customs House
Customs House is a historic waterfront building in Hobart, Tasmania, notable for its colonial architecture and former role in administering maritime trade and customs.
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C.
Customs House
Customs House is a historic neoclassical waterfront building on Shanghai’s Bund, long serving as a key symbol of the city’s colonial-era commercial and maritime trade.
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D.
Long Wharf Custom House Block
Long Wharf Custom House Block is a historic waterfront commercial building in Boston that once served as a key hub for maritime trade and customs operations.
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E.
United States Custom House
The United States Custom House is a historic federal building in New York City that once served as the primary customs collection point for the bustling port, reflecting the city’s central role in American trade and finance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
federal building
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historic building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Greek Revival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
maritime trade
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port of New Bedford ⓘ whaling industry ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Custom houses in the United States ⓘ United States federal courthouses (historical use) ⓘ |
| city | New Bedford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| function |
collection of customs duties
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customs administration ⓘ |
| governmentBranch | United States Customs Service NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
National Historic Landmark
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listed on the National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| location | New Bedford, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| managedBy | U.S. General Services Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material | granite ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with New Bedford’s prominence as a whaling port
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role in U.S. maritime customs enforcement ⓘ |
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| owner |
United States government
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surface form:
United States federal government
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| partOf | New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| preservationStatus | protected historic property ⓘ |
| region | Bristol County, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significance |
served as center of customs operations during New Bedford’s 19th-century whaling boom
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served as center of customs operations during New Bedford’s maritime trade boom ⓘ |
| state | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| tourism | heritage tourism site ⓘ |
| usedFor |
processing shipping documents
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regulating maritime commerce ⓘ |
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: U.S. Custom House (New Bedford) Description of subject: The U.S. Custom House in New Bedford is a historic federal building that served as the center of customs operations during the city’s 19th-century whaling and maritime trade boom.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.