MetLife Building
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The MetLife Building is a prominent mid-20th-century modernist skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, known for its distinctive slab-like form and its location above Grand Central Terminal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| MetLife Building canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2469592 — 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: MetLife Building Context triple: [Emery Roth & Sons, notableProject, MetLife Building]
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A.
One Liberty Plaza
One Liberty Plaza is a prominent 54-story office skyscraper in Lower Manhattan’s Financial District, known for its black façade and proximity to the World Trade Center site.
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B.
Citigroup Centre
Citigroup Centre is a major office complex in London’s Canary Wharf financial district that serves as a key European hub for Citigroup.
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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.
Two Prudential Plaza
Two Prudential Plaza is a prominent postmodern skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, known for its distinctive spire and role in the city’s iconic skyline.
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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: MetLife Building Target entity description: The MetLife Building is a prominent mid-20th-century modernist skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, known for its distinctive slab-like form and its location above Grand Central Terminal.
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A.
One Liberty Plaza
One Liberty Plaza is a prominent 54-story office skyscraper in Lower Manhattan’s Financial District, known for its black façade and proximity to the World Trade Center site.
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B.
Citigroup Centre
Citigroup Centre is a major office complex in London’s Canary Wharf financial district that serves as a key European hub for Citigroup.
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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.
Two Prudential Plaza
Two Prudential Plaza is a prominent postmodern skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, known for its distinctive spire and role in the city’s iconic skyline.
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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 (48)
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: MetLife Building Description of subject: The MetLife Building is a prominent mid-20th-century modernist skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, known for its distinctive slab-like form and its location above Grand Central Terminal.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.