Marquette Building
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The Marquette Building is a landmark early Chicago School skyscraper in downtown Chicago, celebrated for its steel-frame construction and richly ornamented terra-cotta and mosaic detailing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marquette Building canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T503831 — 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: Marquette Building Context triple: [Holabird & Roche, notableWork, Marquette Building]
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A.
Madison Building
The Madison Building is one of the main Library of Congress structures in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections, reading rooms, and administrative offices.
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B.
Wrigley Building
The Wrigley Building is a historic, white terra-cotta skyscraper in Chicago renowned for its clock tower and prominent position at the gateway to the Magnificent Mile.
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C.
Water Tower Place
Water Tower Place is a major mixed-use skyscraper and shopping complex in Chicago, known for its prominent location along the city’s Magnificent Mile.
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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.
Chicago City Hall
Chicago City Hall is the central municipal government building of Chicago, housing key city offices and serving as the primary location for official civic administration and proceedings.
- 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: Marquette Building Target entity description: The Marquette Building is a landmark early Chicago School skyscraper in downtown Chicago, celebrated for its steel-frame construction and richly ornamented terra-cotta and mosaic detailing.
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A.
Madison Building
The Madison Building is one of the main Library of Congress structures in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections, reading rooms, and administrative offices.
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B.
Wrigley Building
The Wrigley Building is a historic, white terra-cotta skyscraper in Chicago renowned for its clock tower and prominent position at the gateway to the Magnificent Mile.
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C.
Water Tower Place
Water Tower Place is a major mixed-use skyscraper and shopping complex in Chicago, known for its prominent location along the city’s Magnificent Mile.
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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.
Chicago City Hall
Chicago City Hall is the central municipal government building of Chicago, housing key city offices and serving as the primary location for official civic administration and proceedings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chicago School building
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historic building ⓘ office building ⓘ skyscraper ⓘ |
| architect | Holabird & Roche ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Chicago School architecture
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surface form:
Chicago School
Commercial style ⓘ
surface form:
Commercial Style
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| completionDate | 1895 ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 41.8794° N, 87.6290° W ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| floorArea | approximately 400,000 square feet ⓘ |
| hasArtisticRepresentation |
bronze relief panels depicting the life of Jacques Marquette
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mosaic murals in the lobby ⓘ |
| hasPart |
central light court
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interior rotunda ⓘ mosaic friezes ⓘ terra-cotta ornamentation ⓘ |
| hasRenovation | major restoration completed in the 2000s ⓘ |
| height | approximately 90 meters ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
Chicago Landmark
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National Historic Landmark ⓘ National Register of Historic Places ⓘ
surface form:
National Register of Historic Places listing
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| inception | 1893 ⓘ |
| locatedAtStreetAddress | 140 South Dearborn Street ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Loop (Chicago)
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surface form:
Loop, Chicago
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| location |
City of Chicago
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surface form:
Chicago
Illinois ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| materialUsed |
brick
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mosaic tile ⓘ steel frame ⓘ terra cotta ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Jacques Marquette ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being an early example of the Chicago School skyscraper
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early steel-frame construction ⓘ ornate interior mosaics ⓘ rich terra-cotta ornamentation ⓘ |
| numberOfFloors | 16 ⓘ |
| owner |
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
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surface form:
The MacArthur Foundation
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| partOf | Chicago Loop ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
designated a Chicago Landmark in 1975
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designated a National Historic Landmark in 1973 ⓘ |
| use | office space ⓘ |
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: Marquette Building Description of subject: The Marquette Building is a landmark early Chicago School skyscraper in downtown Chicago, celebrated for its steel-frame construction and richly ornamented terra-cotta and mosaic detailing.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Holabird & Roche