Time & Life Building
E373659
The Time & Life Building is a prominent modernist skyscraper in New York City's Rockefeller Center that historically housed the headquarters of Time Inc. and its magazines.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Time & Life Building canonical | 2 |
| Time-Life Building | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3600309 — 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: Time & Life Building Context triple: [Time-Life Building at Rockefeller Center, alsoKnownAs, Time & Life Building]
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A.
New York Life Building
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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B.
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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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.
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.
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E.
Perelman Building
The Perelman Building is an annex of the Philadelphia Museum of Art known for its Art Deco architecture and galleries dedicated to modern and contemporary design, prints, drawings, and photography.
- 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: Time & Life Building Target entity description: The Time & Life Building is a prominent modernist skyscraper in New York City's Rockefeller Center that historically housed the headquarters of Time Inc. and its magazines.
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A.
New York Life Building
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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B.
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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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.
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.
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E.
Perelman Building
The Perelman Building is an annex of the Philadelphia Museum of Art known for its Art Deco architecture and galleries dedicated to modern and contemporary design, prints, drawings, and photography.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial building
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modernist building ⓘ office building ⓘ skyscraper ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
1271 Avenue of the Americas
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1271 Sixth Avenue ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
International Style
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Modernism ⓘ |
| avenue | Sixth Avenue ⓘ |
| borough | Manhattan ⓘ |
| category |
Headquarters of media companies in the United States
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Modernist architecture in New York City ⓘ Rockefeller Center buildings ⓘ
linked to:
Rockefeller Center
Skyscraper office buildings in Manhattan ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| developer |
Rockefeller Center Inc.
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linked to:
Rockefeller Center
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| formerHeadquartersOf | Time Inc. ⓘ |
| formerTenant |
Fortune magazine
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Life magazine ⓘ Sports Illustrated ⓘ Time Inc. ⓘ Time magazine ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
ground-floor retail space
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lobby murals ⓘ plaza ⓘ setback tower ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
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New York City ⓘ New York State ⓘ Rockefeller Center ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| locatedOn | Avenue of the Americas ⓘ |
| neighborhood | Midtown Manhattan ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with Time Inc. magazines
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modernist curtain wall facade ⓘ |
| owner | Tishman Speyer ⓘ |
| partOf |
Sixth Avenue skyscraper corridor
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linked to:
Sixth Avenue corridor
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| streetAddress | 1271 Avenue of the Americas ⓘ |
| use |
office
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retail ⓘ |
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: Time & Life Building Description of subject: The Time & Life Building is a prominent modernist skyscraper in New York City's Rockefeller Center that historically housed the headquarters of Time Inc. and its magazines.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Time & Life Building