General Motors Building
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The General Motors Building is a prominent modernist office skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, known for its prime Fifth Avenue location and high-profile commercial tenants.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| General Motors Building canonical | 5 |
| General Motors Building (former ownership) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1591194 — 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: General Motors Building Context triple: [GM Building plaza, locatedInFrontOf, General Motors Building]
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Socony–Mobil Building
The Socony–Mobil Building is a prominent International Style skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, notable for its stainless-steel facade and association with the Mobil oil company.
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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.
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C.
Johnson Building
The Johnson Building is a modernist wing of the Boston Public Library’s Copley Square main branch, known for housing its contemporary collections and public services.
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D.
Humana Building
The Humana Building is a landmark skyscraper in Louisville, Kentucky, designed by architect Michael Graves and celebrated as an iconic example of postmodern architecture.
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E.
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.
- 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: General Motors Building Target entity description: The General Motors Building is a prominent modernist office skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, known for its prime Fifth Avenue location and high-profile commercial tenants.
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A.
Socony–Mobil Building
The Socony–Mobil Building is a prominent International Style skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, notable for its stainless-steel facade and association with the Mobil oil company.
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B.
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.
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C.
Johnson Building
The Johnson Building is a modernist wing of the Boston Public Library’s Copley Square main branch, known for housing its contemporary collections and public services.
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D.
Humana Building
The Humana Building is a landmark skyscraper in Louisville, Kentucky, designed by architect Michael Graves and celebrated as an iconic example of postmodern architecture.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: General Motors Building Description of subject: The General Motors Building is a prominent modernist office skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, known for its prime Fifth Avenue location and high-profile commercial tenants.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
New York City Subway stations at Fifth Avenue–59th Street
subject linked to:
New York City Subway at Fifth Avenue–59th Street
linked to: General Motors Building