San Francisco Municipal Railway Building
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The San Francisco Municipal Railway Building is a historic civic structure in San Francisco designed in the Beaux-Arts style by architect John Bakewell Jr.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| San Francisco Municipal Railway Building canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8092387 — 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: San Francisco Municipal Railway Building Context triple: [John Bakewell Jr., notableWork, San Francisco Municipal Railway Building]
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A.
San Francisco City Hall
San Francisco City Hall is a historic Beaux-Arts landmark in the city’s Civic Center, serving as the seat of government and a prominent architectural symbol of San Francisco.
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B.
San Francisco Federal Building
The San Francisco Federal Building is a prominent contemporary government office tower in San Francisco known for its unconventional, energy-efficient design by architect Thom Mayne.
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C.
San Francisco War Memorial Opera House
The San Francisco War Memorial Opera House is a historic performing arts venue in San Francisco renowned as the longtime home of the San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Ballet.
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D.
Old Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Building
The Old Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Building is a historic Beaux-Arts former central bank headquarters in San Francisco’s Financial District, now repurposed for commercial and office use.
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E.
Menlo Park City Hall
Menlo Park City Hall is the main municipal government building of Menlo Park, California, housing city administrative offices and serving as the central venue for local civic affairs.
- 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: San Francisco Municipal Railway Building Target entity description: The San Francisco Municipal Railway Building is a historic civic structure in San Francisco designed in the Beaux-Arts style by architect John Bakewell Jr.
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A.
San Francisco City Hall
San Francisco City Hall is a historic Beaux-Arts landmark in the city’s Civic Center, serving as the seat of government and a prominent architectural symbol of San Francisco.
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B.
San Francisco Federal Building
The San Francisco Federal Building is a prominent contemporary government office tower in San Francisco known for its unconventional, energy-efficient design by architect Thom Mayne.
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C.
San Francisco War Memorial Opera House
The San Francisco War Memorial Opera House is a historic performing arts venue in San Francisco renowned as the longtime home of the San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Ballet.
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D.
Old Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Building
The Old Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Building is a historic Beaux-Arts former central bank headquarters in San Francisco’s Financial District, now repurposed for commercial and office use.
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E.
Menlo Park City Hall
Menlo Park City Hall is the main municipal government building of Menlo Park, California, housing city administrative offices and serving as the central venue for local civic affairs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Beaux-Arts architecture
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civic building ⓘ historic building ⓘ |
| architect | John Bakewell Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Beaux-Arts ⓘ |
| category |
Beaux-Arts architecture in California
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Buildings and structures in San Francisco ⓘ |
| city | San Francisco ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| hasArchitect | John Bakewell Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasName | San Francisco Municipal Railway Building NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic structure ⓘ |
| isPartOf | San Francisco civic architecture ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
San Francisco ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| namedAfter | San Francisco Municipal Railway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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| use | civic use ⓘ |
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: San Francisco Municipal Railway Building Description of subject: The San Francisco Municipal Railway Building is a historic civic structure in San Francisco designed in the Beaux-Arts style by architect John Bakewell Jr.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.