New York Life Building
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The New York Life Building is a historic skyscraper in Manhattan known for its distinctive gilded pyramidal roof and role as the headquarters of the New York Life Insurance Company.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New York Life Building canonical | 7 |
| New York Life Tower | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2595361 — 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: New York Life Building Context triple: [Flatiron District, hasLandmark, New York Life Building]
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A.
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower is a historic early 20th-century skyscraper in Manhattan, modeled after the Campanile in Venice and once the tallest building in the world.
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B.
Bank of Manhattan Trust Building
The Bank of Manhattan Trust Building, now commonly known as 40 Wall Street, is a historic neo-Gothic skyscraper in New York City's Financial District that was briefly one of the tallest buildings in the world.
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C.
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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D.
Woolworth Building
The Woolworth Building is a historic neo-Gothic skyscraper in Lower Manhattan, New York City, once the world's tallest building and a landmark of early 20th-century architecture.
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MetLife Building
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.
- 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: New York Life Building Target entity description: The New York Life Building is a historic skyscraper in Manhattan known for its distinctive gilded pyramidal roof and role as the headquarters of the New York Life Insurance Company.
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A.
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower is a historic early 20th-century skyscraper in Manhattan, modeled after the Campanile in Venice and once the tallest building in the world.
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B.
Bank of Manhattan Trust Building
The Bank of Manhattan Trust Building, now commonly known as 40 Wall Street, is a historic neo-Gothic skyscraper in New York City's Financial District that was briefly one of the tallest buildings in the world.
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C.
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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D.
Woolworth Building
The Woolworth Building is a historic neo-Gothic skyscraper in Lower Manhattan, New York City, once the world's tallest building and a landmark of early 20th-century architecture.
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E.
MetLife Building
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: New York Life Building Description of subject: The New York Life Building is a historic skyscraper in Manhattan known for its distinctive gilded pyramidal roof and role as the headquarters of the New York Life Insurance Company.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: New York Life Building
subject linked to:
Madison Square Garden (second) (as partner in McKim, Mead & White)