Hearst Tower (New York City)
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Hearst Tower (New York City) is a prominent glass-and-steel skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan known for its distinctive diagrid design and status as one of the city’s early green office buildings.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hearst Tower | 5 |
| Hearst Tower (New York City) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T761945 — 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: Hearst Tower (New York City) Context triple: [Norman Foster, notableWork, Hearst Tower (New York City)]
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A.
New York Times Building
The New York Times Building is a prominent high-rise office tower in Midtown Manhattan that serves as the headquarters of The New York Times and is noted for its modern, light-filled design.
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B.
RCA Building
The RCA Building, now known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza or 30 Rock, is a landmark Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan that serves as the centerpiece of New York City's Rockefeller Center complex.
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C.
Tribune Building, New York City
The Tribune Building in New York City was a pioneering 19th-century skyscraper and former headquarters of the New York Tribune, designed in a richly ornamented style by architect Richard Morris Hunt.
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D.
Seagram Building
The Seagram Building is a landmark modernist skyscraper in New York City, renowned for its minimalist bronze-and-glass design and profound influence on corporate architecture.
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E.
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building is the iconic Beaux-Arts flagship library on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, renowned for its grand reading rooms and stone lion statues.
- 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: Hearst Tower (New York City) Target entity description: Hearst Tower (New York City) is a prominent glass-and-steel skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan known for its distinctive diagrid design and status as one of the city’s early green office buildings.
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A.
New York Times Building
The New York Times Building is a prominent high-rise office tower in Midtown Manhattan that serves as the headquarters of The New York Times and is noted for its modern, light-filled design.
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B.
RCA Building
The RCA Building, now known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza or 30 Rock, is a landmark Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan that serves as the centerpiece of New York City's Rockefeller Center complex.
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C.
Tribune Building, New York City
The Tribune Building in New York City was a pioneering 19th-century skyscraper and former headquarters of the New York Tribune, designed in a richly ornamented style by architect Richard Morris Hunt.
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D.
Seagram Building
The Seagram Building is a landmark modernist skyscraper in New York City, renowned for its minimalist bronze-and-glass design and profound influence on corporate architecture.
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E.
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building is the iconic Beaux-Arts flagship library on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, renowned for its grand reading rooms and stone lion statues.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Hearst Tower (New York City) Description of subject: Hearst Tower (New York City) is a prominent glass-and-steel skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan known for its distinctive diagrid design and status as one of the city’s early green office buildings.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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