The Santa Fe Building
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The Santa Fe Building is a historic early-20th-century office skyscraper in downtown Chicago, noted for its prominent location along Michigan Avenue and its distinctive architectural design.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Santa Fe Building | 1 |
| Santa Fe Railway Exchange Building | 1 |
| The Santa Fe Building canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7021859 — 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: The Santa Fe Building Context triple: [Historic Michigan Boulevard District, hasBuilding, The Santa Fe Building]
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A.
Goodhue Building
The Goodhue Building is a historic library structure designed by architect Bertram Goodhue, notable for its distinctive architectural style and role as a central public library facility.
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B.
Sanford Building
The Sanford Building is the main academic and administrative facility that houses Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy.
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C.
Leacock Building
The Leacock Building is a major academic and classroom complex at McGill University’s downtown Montreal campus, housing numerous lecture halls, offices, and social science departments.
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D.
Ahmanson Building
The Ahmanson Building is a major gallery and exhibition space within the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, housing significant portions of its art collections.
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E.
May Company Building
The May Company Building is a historic Streamline Moderne department store structure on Los Angeles’s Miracle Mile, now known for housing the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
- 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: The Santa Fe Building Target entity description: The Santa Fe Building is a historic early-20th-century office skyscraper in downtown Chicago, noted for its prominent location along Michigan Avenue and its distinctive architectural design.
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A.
Goodhue Building
The Goodhue Building is a historic library structure designed by architect Bertram Goodhue, notable for its distinctive architectural style and role as a central public library facility.
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B.
Sanford Building
The Sanford Building is the main academic and administrative facility that houses Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy.
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C.
Leacock Building
The Leacock Building is a major academic and classroom complex at McGill University’s downtown Montreal campus, housing numerous lecture halls, offices, and social science departments.
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D.
Ahmanson Building
The Ahmanson Building is a major gallery and exhibition space within the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, housing significant portions of its art collections.
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E.
May Company Building
The May Company Building is a historic Streamline Moderne department store structure on Los Angeles’s Miracle Mile, now known for housing the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | office building ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Grant Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illinois Central Railroad right-of-way ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Beaux-Arts influences
ⓘ
Chicago School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Early 20th-century architecture in the United States
ⓘ
Historic commercial buildings in Chicago ⓘ Skyscraper office buildings in Chicago ⓘ |
| city |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago
|
| completion | early 20th century ⓘ |
| constructionStart | early 20th century ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| era | early 20th century Chicago skyscraper era ⓘ |
| faces | Michigan Avenue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| floorCount | high-rise (skyscraper scale) ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
decorative terra cotta detailing
ⓘ
large windows typical of Chicago School design ⓘ ornamental cornice ⓘ prominent signage historically associated with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ⓘ setback massing ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
commercial services
ⓘ
office space for multiple tenants ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Chicago skyline ⓘ |
| locatedIn | downtown Chicago ⓘ |
| locatedOn | South Michigan Avenue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location | Chicago, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material |
steel frame
ⓘ
terra cotta ⓘ |
| neighborhood | Chicago Loop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
distinctive early skyscraper architectural design
ⓘ
prominent location along Michigan Avenue ⓘ role in Chicago’s early 20th-century commercial development ⓘ |
| overlooks |
Grant Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illinois Central Railroad tracks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Grant Park streetwall
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michigan Avenue streetwall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| use |
commercial
ⓘ
office ⓘ |
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: The Santa Fe Building Description of subject: The Santa Fe Building is a historic early-20th-century office skyscraper in downtown Chicago, noted for its prominent location along Michigan Avenue and its distinctive architectural design.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Santa Fe Building
this entity surface form:
Santa Fe Railway Exchange Building