Old Colony Building (Chicago)
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The Old Colony Building in Chicago is a historic late-19th-century skyscraper designed in the Chicago School style by architect Henry Ives Cobb.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Old Colony Building (Chicago) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6622704 — 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: Old Colony Building (Chicago) Context triple: [Henry Ives Cobb, notableWork, Old Colony Building (Chicago)]
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A.
Republic Building (Chicago)
The Republic Building in Chicago was a historic early skyscraper designed in the Chicago School style, exemplifying the commercial architecture of the late 19th century.
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B.
Gage Building (Chicago)
The Gage Building in Chicago is a historic early skyscraper on Michigan Avenue, renowned for its Chicago School architecture and ornamental façade designed in part by Louis Sullivan.
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C.
Fisher Building (Chicago)
The Fisher Building in Chicago is a historic late-19th-century skyscraper renowned for its Gothic Revival terra cotta ornamentation and status as one of the city's early high-rise landmarks.
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D.
Santa Fe Building (Chicago)
The Santa Fe Building in Chicago is a historic early 20th-century office skyscraper in the Chicago Loop, notable for its Beaux-Arts design and prominent location along Michigan Avenue.
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E.
Equitable Building (Chicago)
The Equitable Building in Chicago is a modernist office skyscraper designed by pioneering architect Natalie de Blois, noted for its sleek glass-and-steel façade and contribution to mid-20th-century corporate architecture.
- 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: Old Colony Building (Chicago) Target entity description: The Old Colony Building in Chicago is a historic late-19th-century skyscraper designed in the Chicago School style by architect Henry Ives Cobb.
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A.
Republic Building (Chicago)
The Republic Building in Chicago was a historic early skyscraper designed in the Chicago School style, exemplifying the commercial architecture of the late 19th century.
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B.
Gage Building (Chicago)
The Gage Building in Chicago is a historic early skyscraper on Michigan Avenue, renowned for its Chicago School architecture and ornamental façade designed in part by Louis Sullivan.
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C.
Fisher Building (Chicago)
The Fisher Building in Chicago is a historic late-19th-century skyscraper renowned for its Gothic Revival terra cotta ornamentation and status as one of the city's early high-rise landmarks.
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D.
Santa Fe Building (Chicago)
The Santa Fe Building in Chicago is a historic early 20th-century office skyscraper in the Chicago Loop, notable for its Beaux-Arts design and prominent location along Michigan Avenue.
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E.
Equitable Building (Chicago)
The Equitable Building in Chicago is a modernist office skyscraper designed by pioneering architect Natalie de Blois, noted for its sleek glass-and-steel façade and contribution to mid-20th-century corporate architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chicago School skyscraper
ⓘ
office building ⓘ |
| architect | Henry Ives Cobb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Chicago School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Commercial Style ⓘ |
| category |
Chicago School architecture in Illinois
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Commercial buildings completed in 1894 ⓘ Historic district contributing properties in Illinois ⓘ Skyscraper office buildings in Chicago ⓘ |
| city |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago
|
| completionDate | 1894 ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1893 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developer | Old Colony Building Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevatorCount | multiple passenger elevators ⓘ |
| floorCount | 17 ⓘ |
| function | mixed-use ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Chicago windows
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masonry curtain walls ⓘ projecting cornice ⓘ rounded corner bays ⓘ steel skeleton construction ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Chicago Landmark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | listed on the National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| historicDistrict | Printing House Row Historic District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicPeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Loop, Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location | Chicago, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material |
masonry cladding
ⓘ
steel frame ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Old Colony Railroad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near |
Fisher Building (Chicago)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harold Washington Library Center NERFINISHED ⓘ Manhattan Building (Chicago) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| NRHPListing | Printing House Row District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| NRHPType | contributing property ⓘ |
| partOf | Printing House Row District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| renovation | converted to residential apartments in the 2010s ⓘ |
| roofHeight | approximately 215 feet ⓘ |
| significance |
early example of Chicago School skyscraper design
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represents transition to steel-frame high-rise construction ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 407 South Dearborn Street ⓘ |
| use |
office
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residential apartments ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Old Colony Building (Chicago) Description of subject: The Old Colony Building in Chicago is a historic late-19th-century skyscraper designed in the Chicago School style by architect Henry Ives Cobb.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.