John A. Wilson Building, Washington, D.C.
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The John A. Wilson Building in Washington, D.C. is the historic seat of the District of Columbia’s municipal government, housing the offices of the mayor and the D.C. Council.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John A. Wilson Building, Washington, D.C. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7339932 — 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: John A. Wilson Building, Washington, D.C. Context triple: [Muriel Bowser, governsFrom, John A. Wilson Building, Washington, D.C.]
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A.
Eccles Building, Washington, D.C.
The Eccles Building in Washington, D.C. is the historic headquarters of the Federal Reserve Board and a central hub for U.S. monetary policy.
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B.
Old Post Office Building, Washington, D.C.
The Old Post Office Building in Washington, D.C. is a historic late-19th-century federal building on Pennsylvania Avenue that has served various government and commercial uses and is noted for its prominent clock tower.
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C.
John Adams Building
The John Adams Building is one of the main Library of Congress structures in Washington, D.C., known for its Art Deco architecture and extensive research collections.
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D.
James Madison Memorial Building
The James Madison Memorial Building is one of the main buildings of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., serving as a major research and office facility and as the official memorial to the fourth U.S. president, James Madison.
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E.
Herbert C. Hoover Building
The Herbert C. Hoover Building is a prominent federal office building in Washington, D.C., best known as the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
- 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: John A. Wilson Building, Washington, D.C. Target entity description: The John A. Wilson Building in Washington, D.C. is the historic seat of the District of Columbia’s municipal government, housing the offices of the mayor and the D.C. Council.
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A.
Eccles Building, Washington, D.C.
The Eccles Building in Washington, D.C. is the historic headquarters of the Federal Reserve Board and a central hub for U.S. monetary policy.
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B.
Old Post Office Building, Washington, D.C.
The Old Post Office Building in Washington, D.C. is a historic late-19th-century federal building on Pennsylvania Avenue that has served various government and commercial uses and is noted for its prominent clock tower.
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C.
John Adams Building
The John Adams Building is one of the main Library of Congress structures in Washington, D.C., known for its Art Deco architecture and extensive research collections.
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D.
James Madison Memorial Building
The James Madison Memorial Building is one of the main buildings of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., serving as a major research and office facility and as the official memorial to the fourth U.S. president, James Madison.
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E.
Herbert C. Hoover Building
The Herbert C. Hoover Building is a prominent federal office building in Washington, D.C., best known as the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city and town hall
ⓘ
government building ⓘ office building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Beaux-Arts
ⓘ
surface form:
Beaux-Arts architecture
|
| category |
Beaux-Arts architecture in Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
City and town halls in Washington, D.C. ⓘ Government buildings in Washington, D.C. ⓘ Historic district contributing properties in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| coordinateSystem | World Geodetic System 1984 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| function |
chambers of the Council of the District of Columbia
ⓘ
office of the Mayor of Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ seat of the District of Columbia municipal government ⓘ |
| governmentBody | District of Columbia government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMunicipality | District of Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
committee hearing rooms
ⓘ
council chamber ⓘ mayor’s offices ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| inception | early 20th century ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Downtown Washington, D.C.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Pennsylvania Avenue NW NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | District of Columbia government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
limestone
ⓘ
marble ⓘ |
| namedAfter | John A. Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupant |
Council of the District of Columbia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mayor of the District of Columbia ⓘ |
| ownedBy | District of Columbia government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryLanguageOfSignage | English ⓘ |
| publicAccess | restricted ⓘ |
| shortName | Wilson Building NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW ⓘ |
| use |
executive offices
ⓘ
legislative offices ⓘ municipal administration ⓘ |
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: John A. Wilson Building, Washington, D.C. Description of subject: The John A. Wilson Building in Washington, D.C. is the historic seat of the District of Columbia’s municipal government, housing the offices of the mayor and the D.C. Council.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.