Brown Building
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The Brown Building is a historic structure in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village best known as the site of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, a tragedy that led to major reforms in workplace safety and labor laws.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brown Building canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6423157 — 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: Brown Building Context triple: [Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, buildingCurrentName, Brown Building]
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A.
Davis Building
The Davis Building is a facility located on the campus of the University of Texas at Martin (UTM), used for academic and institutional purposes.
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B.
Newton Building
Newton Building is a prominent academic and administrative facility that serves as the central hub of Nottingham Trent University in Nottingham, England.
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C.
North Building
North Building is one of the main commercial and office towers within the Grand Front Osaka complex, housing a mix of shops, restaurants, and business facilities.
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D.
North Building
North Building is one of the main exhibition and convention halls within Chicago’s McCormick Place complex, hosting large-scale trade shows and events.
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E.
North Building
North Building is a distinctive wing of the Denver Art Museum, known for its modernist architecture and role in housing part of the museum’s art collections.
- 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: Brown Building Target entity description: The Brown Building is a historic structure in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village best known as the site of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, a tragedy that led to major reforms in workplace safety and labor laws.
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A.
Davis Building
The Davis Building is a facility located on the campus of the University of Texas at Martin (UTM), used for academic and institutional purposes.
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B.
Newton Building
Newton Building is a prominent academic and administrative facility that serves as the central hub of Nottingham Trent University in Nottingham, England.
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C.
North Building
North Building is one of the main commercial and office towers within the Grand Front Osaka complex, housing a mix of shops, restaurants, and business facilities.
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D.
North Building
North Building is one of the main exhibition and convention halls within Chicago’s McCormick Place complex, hosting large-scale trade shows and events.
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E.
North Building
North Building is a distinctive wing of the Denver Art Museum, known for its modernist architecture and role in housing part of the museum’s art collections.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic building
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building ⓘ |
| architect | John Woolley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Neo-Renaissance ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
NERFINISHED
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labor law reforms ⓘ workplace safety reforms ⓘ |
| cityBorough | Borough of Manhattan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| completedIn | 1900 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| designated |
National Historic Landmark
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New York City Landmark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| factoryTenant | Triangle Waist Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fireDate | March 25, 1911 ⓘ |
| fireDeaths | 146 ⓘ |
| fireVictims | garment workers ⓘ |
| floorUse1911 | garment manufacturing on upper floors ⓘ |
| functionDuring1911Fire | garment factory building ⓘ |
| hasElevators | yes ⓘ |
| hasEvent | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFireEscapes | yes ⓘ |
| houses |
NYU biology laboratories
ⓘ
NYU chemistry laboratories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| listedOn | National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Greenwich Village
NERFINISHED
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Manhattan ⓘ New York City ⓘ New York State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material |
brick
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steel-frame ⓘ |
| memorializedBy |
annual commemorations of Triangle fire
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plaques on exterior ⓘ |
| near | Washington Square Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nhlDesignationYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| nrhpType | National Historic Landmark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfStories | 10 ⓘ |
| nycLandmarkDesignationYear | 2003 ⓘ |
| originalName | Asch Building NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | New York University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | New York University campus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| renamedAfter | Fred M. Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| renamedIn | 1929 ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 23–29 Washington Place NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| use |
classrooms
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educational ⓘ laboratory ⓘ |
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: Brown Building Description of subject: The Brown Building is a historic structure in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village best known as the site of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, a tragedy that led to major reforms in workplace safety and labor laws.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.