Bertelsmann Building (1540 Broadway)
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Bertelsmann Building (1540 Broadway) is a prominent postmodern skyscraper in New York City's Times Square, designed by architect David Childs and known for its distinctive glass façade and role in the area's commercial redevelopment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bertelsmann Building (1540 Broadway) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1425567 — 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: Bertelsmann Building (1540 Broadway) Context triple: [David Childs, notableWork, Bertelsmann Building (1540 Broadway)]
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A.
Hearst Tower (New York City)
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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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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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.
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D.
Broadway–Chambers Building
The Broadway–Chambers Building is an early 20th-century New York City skyscraper renowned for its Beaux-Arts design by architect Cass Gilbert.
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E.
405 Lexington Avenue
405 Lexington Avenue is the Manhattan address of the iconic Art Deco skyscraper known as the Chrysler Building.
- 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: Bertelsmann Building (1540 Broadway) Target entity description: Bertelsmann Building (1540 Broadway) is a prominent postmodern skyscraper in New York City's Times Square, designed by architect David Childs and known for its distinctive glass façade and role in the area's commercial redevelopment.
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A.
Hearst Tower (New York City)
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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B.
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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C.
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.
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D.
Broadway–Chambers Building
The Broadway–Chambers Building is an early 20th-century New York City skyscraper renowned for its Beaux-Arts design by architect Cass Gilbert.
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E.
405 Lexington Avenue
405 Lexington Avenue is the Manhattan address of the iconic Art Deco skyscraper known as the Chrysler Building.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial building
ⓘ
high-rise building ⓘ office building ⓘ postmodern building ⓘ skyscraper ⓘ |
| borough | Manhattan ⓘ |
| city | New York City ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| developedBy | Bertelsmann ⓘ |
| hasAddress | 1540 Broadway ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName | 1540 Broadway ⓘ |
| hasArchitect | David Childs ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalStyle | postmodern architecture ⓘ |
| hasBuildingType | Class A office building ⓘ |
| hasConstructionMaterial |
concrete
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glass ⓘ steel ⓘ |
| hasDesignFeature |
prominent signage areas facing Times Square
ⓘ
setbacks typical of postmodern skyscrapers ⓘ |
| hasDistinctiveFeature |
glass façade
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prominent corner presence in Times Square ⓘ |
| hasExterior | curtain wall ⓘ |
| hasFacadeMaterial | glass ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
corporate offices
ⓘ
retail podium ⓘ |
| hasNotableRole |
contributed to the revitalization of Times Square
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served as a major corporate presence in Times Square ⓘ |
| hasOwner | various commercial real estate investors ⓘ |
| hasStructuralSystem | steel frame ⓘ |
| hasUseType | mixed-use commercial ⓘ |
| isAccessibleBy | New York City Subway stations near Times Square ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Midtown Manhattan skyline ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
New York City ⓘ Times Square ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| namedAfter | Bertelsmann ⓘ |
| neighborhood | Times Square ⓘ |
| partOf |
Times Square commercial redevelopment
ⓘ
linked to:
Times Square
|
| region | Midtown Manhattan ⓘ |
| street | Broadway ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial purposes
ⓘ
office space ⓘ retail space ⓘ |
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: Bertelsmann Building (1540 Broadway) Description of subject: Bertelsmann Building (1540 Broadway) is a prominent postmodern skyscraper in New York City's Times Square, designed by architect David Childs and known for its distinctive glass façade and role in the area's commercial redevelopment.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.