Lloyd's building
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The Lloyd's building is a landmark high-tech office building in London, known for its radical "inside-out" design with services such as staircases and ducts exposed on the exterior.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lloyd’s building | 5 |
| Lloyd's building canonical | 4 |
| 1928 Lloyd's building | 1 |
| Lloyd's Register building | 1 |
| Lloyd’s of London offices on Leadenhall Street | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1297466 — 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: Lloyd's building Context triple: [Ove Arup & Partners, notableWork, Lloyd's building]
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A.
William Stone Building
The William Stone Building is a prominent modernist residential and teaching block at Peterhouse, Cambridge, known for its distinctive architectural style and views over the college gardens.
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B.
Royal Liver Building
The Royal Liver Building is an iconic early 20th-century waterfront office building in Liverpool, England, famed for its twin clock towers topped by mythical Liver Bird sculptures and its role as a symbol of the city.
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C.
Exchange Tower
Exchange Tower is a prominent office skyscraper in Toronto’s financial district that serves as the headquarters of the Toronto Stock Exchange.
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D.
The Exchange Tower
The Exchange Tower is a prominent commercial skyscraper in Dubai’s Business Bay district, known for its modern office spaces and views of the city’s skyline.
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E.
Prudential Tower
Prudential Tower is a prominent skyscraper in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its observation deck and role as a key feature of the city’s skyline.
- 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: Lloyd's building Target entity description: The Lloyd's building is a landmark high-tech office building in London, known for its radical "inside-out" design with services such as staircases and ducts exposed on the exterior.
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A.
William Stone Building
The William Stone Building is a prominent modernist residential and teaching block at Peterhouse, Cambridge, known for its distinctive architectural style and views over the college gardens.
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B.
Royal Liver Building
The Royal Liver Building is an iconic early 20th-century waterfront office building in Liverpool, England, famed for its twin clock towers topped by mythical Liver Bird sculptures and its role as a symbol of the city.
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C.
Exchange Tower
Exchange Tower is a prominent office skyscraper in Toronto’s financial district that serves as the headquarters of the Toronto Stock Exchange.
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D.
The Exchange Tower
The Exchange Tower is a prominent commercial skyscraper in Dubai’s Business Bay district, known for its modern office spaces and views of the city’s skyline.
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E.
Prudential Tower
Prudential Tower is a prominent skyscraper in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its observation deck and role as a key feature of the city’s skyline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
high-tech architecture building
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landmark ⓘ office building ⓘ skyscraper ⓘ |
| architect | Richard Rogers ⓘ |
| architecturalFirm |
Richard Rogers Partnership
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linked to:
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
|
| architecturalStyle |
Bowellism
ⓘ
High-tech architecture ⓘ |
| awarded |
RIBA Award
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linked to:
RIBA Awards
|
| category |
Buildings and structures in the City of London
ⓘ
High-tech architecture in the United Kingdom ⓘ Skyscraper office buildings in London ⓘ |
| city |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| completionDate | 1986 ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 51.5125°N 0.0829°W ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| designFeature |
external ducts
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external lifts ⓘ external staircases ⓘ inside-out design ⓘ services exposed on exterior ⓘ |
| elevatorCount | 12 ⓘ |
| floorCount | 14 ⓘ |
| function | insurance market headquarters ⓘ |
| hasPart |
central atrium
ⓘ
external service towers ⓘ glass lifts ⓘ underwriting room ⓘ |
| height | 95 metres ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationDate | 2011 ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | Grade I listed building ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
City of London
ⓘ
London ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
concrete
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glass ⓘ stainless steel ⓘ |
| notableFor |
iconic London skyline presence
ⓘ
radical high-tech design ⓘ services placed on exterior ⓘ |
| occupant |
Lloyd's of London
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linked to:
Lloyd’s of London
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| openingDate | 1986 ⓘ |
| owner |
Lloyd's of London
ⓘ
linked to:
Lloyd’s of London
|
| replaced |
1928 Lloyd's building
ⓘ
linked to:
Lloyd's building
|
| startDateOfConstruction | 1978 ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 1 Lime Street ⓘ |
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: Lloyd's building Description of subject: The Lloyd's building is a landmark high-tech office building in London, known for its radical "inside-out" design with services such as staircases and ducts exposed on the exterior.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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