The Steger Building
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The Steger Building is a historic high-rise in downtown Chicago, Illinois, notable for its early 20th-century architecture and its location within the city’s prominent Historic Michigan Boulevard District.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Smurfit-Stone Building | 1 |
| The Steger Building canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7021869 — 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 Steger Building Context triple: [Historic Michigan Boulevard District, hasBuilding, The Steger Building]
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A.
McClurg Building
The McClurg Building is a historic Chicago commercial structure recognized as a significant example of early skyscraper design by the architectural firm Holabird & Roche.
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B.
Lehmann Building
The Lehmann Building is a facility within the Missouri Botanical Garden complex, likely used for administrative, educational, or research purposes supporting the garden’s botanical mission.
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C.
Ricketts Building
The Ricketts Building is an academic facility at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that houses classrooms, laboratories, and offices for engineering and science programs.
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D.
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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E.
Roger Stevens Building
The Roger Stevens Building is a prominent modernist lecture theatre complex at the University of Leeds, noted for its distinctive brutalist architecture and central role in campus teaching.
- 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 Steger Building Target entity description: The Steger Building is a historic high-rise in downtown Chicago, Illinois, notable for its early 20th-century architecture and its location within the city’s prominent Historic Michigan Boulevard District.
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A.
McClurg Building
The McClurg Building is a historic Chicago commercial structure recognized as a significant example of early skyscraper design by the architectural firm Holabird & Roche.
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B.
Lehmann Building
The Lehmann Building is a facility within the Missouri Botanical Garden complex, likely used for administrative, educational, or research purposes supporting the garden’s botanical mission.
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C.
Ricketts Building
The Ricketts Building is an academic facility at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that houses classrooms, laboratories, and offices for engineering and science programs.
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D.
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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E.
Roger Stevens Building
The Roger Stevens Building is a prominent modernist lecture theatre complex at the University of Leeds, noted for its distinctive brutalist architecture and central role in campus teaching.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial building
ⓘ
historic high-rise building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | early 20th-century commercial style ⓘ |
| city |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago
|
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasBuildingType | high-rise ⓘ |
| hasFacadeMaterial |
masonry
ⓘ
terra cotta ⓘ |
| hasFloorCount | high-rise number of stories ⓘ |
| hasUse |
commercial
ⓘ
office ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | contributing property to a historic district ⓘ |
| isHistoric | true ⓘ |
| isIncludedIn | Chicago historic resources surveys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isLocatedAlong | Michigan Boulevard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isLocatedNear |
Chicago Cultural Center
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Grant Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Chicago Loop area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | local historic preservation documentation ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago, Illinois
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
downtown Chicago ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOn | South Michigan Avenue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early 20th-century architecture
ⓘ
location within the Historic Michigan Boulevard District ⓘ |
| partOf | Historic Michigan Boulevard District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
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 Steger Building Description of subject: The Steger Building is a historic high-rise in downtown Chicago, Illinois, notable for its early 20th-century architecture and its location within the city’s prominent Historic Michigan Boulevard District.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Smurfit-Stone Building