IBM Building Minneapolis
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IBM Building Minneapolis is a modernist office tower in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, noted for its sleek, minimalist design and significance in late-20th-century corporate architecture.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| IBM Building Minneapolis canonical | 2 |
| IBM Tower (Minneapolis) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1546820 — 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: IBM Building Minneapolis Context triple: [Edward Larrabee Barnes, designed, IBM Building Minneapolis]
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A.
U.S. Bank Tower
U.S. Bank Tower is a prominent skyscraper in Los Angeles known for its distinctive silhouette and status as one of the tallest buildings on the West Coast of the United States.
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B.
Capital One Hall
Capital One Hall is a modern performing arts and events venue in Tysons, Virginia, hosting concerts, theater productions, and community performances.
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C.
Marquette Building
The Marquette Building is a landmark early Chicago School skyscraper in downtown Chicago, celebrated for its steel-frame construction and richly ornamented terra-cotta and mosaic detailing.
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D.
James J. Hill House in Saint Paul, Minnesota
The James J. Hill House in Saint Paul, Minnesota is a grand Gilded Age mansion-turned-museum that served as the opulent residence of railroad magnate James J. Hill and stands today as a prominent historic landmark.
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E.
AT&T Building
The AT&T Building is a landmark postmodern skyscraper in New York City, renowned for its Chippendale-style broken pediment top and its influential role in 1980s architectural design.
- 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: IBM Building Minneapolis Target entity description: IBM Building Minneapolis is a modernist office tower in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, noted for its sleek, minimalist design and significance in late-20th-century corporate architecture.
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A.
U.S. Bank Tower
U.S. Bank Tower is a prominent skyscraper in Los Angeles known for its distinctive silhouette and status as one of the tallest buildings on the West Coast of the United States.
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B.
Capital One Hall
Capital One Hall is a modern performing arts and events venue in Tysons, Virginia, hosting concerts, theater productions, and community performances.
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C.
Marquette Building
The Marquette Building is a landmark early Chicago School skyscraper in downtown Chicago, celebrated for its steel-frame construction and richly ornamented terra-cotta and mosaic detailing.
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D.
James J. Hill House in Saint Paul, Minnesota
The James J. Hill House in Saint Paul, Minnesota is a grand Gilded Age mansion-turned-museum that served as the opulent residence of railroad magnate James J. Hill and stands today as a prominent historic landmark.
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E.
AT&T Building
The AT&T Building is a landmark postmodern skyscraper in New York City, renowned for its Chippendale-style broken pediment top and its influential role in 1980s architectural design.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial building
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modernist architecture ⓘ office building ⓘ skyscraper ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
IBM Tower (Minneapolis)
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linked to:
IBM Building Minneapolis
|
| architecturalStyle |
International Style
ⓘ
Modernism ⓘ |
| buildingType | office tower ⓘ |
| city | Minneapolis ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| era | late 20th century ⓘ |
| floorCount | 20+ ⓘ |
| function | corporate offices ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
curtain wall façade
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glass-and-metal exterior ⓘ rectilinear massing ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Downtown Minneapolis
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linked to:
Minneapolis
Hennepin County ⓘ Minneapolis ⓘ Minnesota ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| namedAfter |
International Business Machines Corporation
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linked to:
IBM
|
| neighborhood | Downtown West ⓘ |
| notableFor |
late-20th-century corporate architecture
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sleek minimalist design ⓘ |
| primaryUse | office ⓘ |
| significance |
example of postwar corporate modernism in Minneapolis
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landmark of downtown Minneapolis office architecture ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
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: IBM Building Minneapolis Description of subject: IBM Building Minneapolis is a modernist office tower in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, noted for its sleek, minimalist design and significance in late-20th-century corporate architecture.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: IBM Building Minneapolis