East Building
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The East Building is a modernist wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., renowned for its angular architecture by I. M. Pei and its collection of modern and contemporary art.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| National Gallery of Art East Building | 4 |
| East Building canonical | 2 |
| National Gallery of Art East Building (Washington, D.C.) | 2 |
| East Building of the National Gallery of Art | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21610 — 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: East Building Context triple: [National Gallery of Art, hasPart, East Building]
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A.
West Building
West Building is one of the main wings of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., housing a significant collection of Western art.
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National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art is a major U.S. art museum renowned for its extensive collection of European and American masterpieces, located on the National Mall.
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C.
Smithsonian Institution Building
The Smithsonian Institution Building, often called "The Castle," is a distinctive red sandstone landmark on the National Mall that serves as the historic headquarters and visitor center of the Smithsonian Institution.
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D.
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is a Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum annex in Virginia that houses large aviation and space artifacts, including the space shuttle Discovery and the Enola Gay.
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E.
Capitol Visitor Center
The Capitol Visitor Center is an underground facility in Washington, D.C. that serves as the main public entrance and educational hub for visitors to the United States Capitol.
- 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: East Building Target entity description: The East Building is a modernist wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., renowned for its angular architecture by I. M. Pei and its collection of modern and contemporary art.
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A.
West Building
West Building is one of the main wings of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., housing a significant collection of Western art.
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B.
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art is a major U.S. art museum renowned for its extensive collection of European and American masterpieces, located on the National Mall.
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C.
Smithsonian Institution Building
The Smithsonian Institution Building, often called "The Castle," is a distinctive red sandstone landmark on the National Mall that serves as the historic headquarters and visitor center of the Smithsonian Institution.
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D.
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is a Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum annex in Virginia that houses large aviation and space artifacts, including the space shuttle Discovery and the Enola Gay.
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E.
Capitol Visitor Center
The Capitol Visitor Center is an underground facility in Washington, D.C. that serves as the main public entrance and educational hub for visitors to the United States Capitol.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art museum building
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museum wing ⓘ |
| architect | I. M. Pei ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Brutalist-influenced modernism
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Modernist architecture ⓘ |
| collectionType |
contemporary art
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modern art ⓘ sculpture ⓘ works on paper ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | National Gallery of Art ⓘ |
| connectedBy | underground concourse ⓘ |
| connectedTo | West Building of the National Gallery of Art ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| donor |
Ailsa Mellon Bruce
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Andrew W. Mellon family ⓘ
linked to:
Mellon family
Paul Mellon ⓘ |
| floorCount | several levels including mezzanines and terraces ⓘ |
| hasAtrium | central atrium with mobile sculptures ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
education and conference facilities
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roof terraces for sculpture display ⓘ underground galleries ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
art exhibition space
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public education space ⓘ research and study space ⓘ |
| houses |
Rothko Room (Mark Rothko works)
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large-scale contemporary installations ⓘ works by Alexander Calder ⓘ works by Henri Matisse ⓘ works by Jackson Pollock ⓘ works by Pablo Picasso ⓘ |
| inception | 1978 ⓘ |
| location | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
concrete
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glass ⓘ pink Tennessee marble ⓘ |
| namedAfter | its position east of the original National Gallery of Art building ⓘ |
| near |
Sculpture Garden of the National Gallery of Art
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United States Capitol ⓘ West Building of the National Gallery of Art ⓘ |
| notableFor |
angular geometry
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dramatic interior atrium ⓘ integration of art and architecture ⓘ triangular floor plan ⓘ |
| openingDate | June 1, 1978 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | National Gallery of Art ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
United States federal government
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linked to:
United States government
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| partOf | National Gallery of Art ⓘ |
| roofFeature | glass pyramidal skylights ⓘ |
| situatedOn | National Mall ⓘ |
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: East Building Description of subject: The East Building is a modernist wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., renowned for its angular architecture by I. M. Pei and its collection of modern and contemporary art.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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