Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Building
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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Building is a prominent Modernist high-rise office tower in downtown Los Angeles, known for its distinctive glass-and-concrete design and reflecting pools.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Building canonical | 5 |
| LADWP Building | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3735900 — 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: Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Building Context triple: [Albert C. Martin Sr., notableWork, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Building]
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A.
Los Angeles City Hall
Los Angeles City Hall is the historic and iconic main municipal building of Los Angeles, housing the mayor’s office and the city council chambers.
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B.
Los Angeles County Hall of Administration
The Los Angeles County Hall of Administration is a major government building in downtown Los Angeles that houses the offices and meeting chambers of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and key county administrative departments.
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C.
Bullocks Wilshire building
The Bullocks Wilshire building is a historic Art Deco former luxury department store in Los Angeles, renowned for its iconic tower and role in the city’s early 20th-century retail and architectural history.
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D.
Ahmanson Building
The Ahmanson Building is a major gallery and exhibition space within the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, housing significant portions of its art collections.
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E.
One Wilshire building
The One Wilshire building is a major telecommunications hub and office skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles, renowned as one of the world’s most important internet exchange and data center facilities.
- 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: Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Building Target entity description: The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Building is a prominent Modernist high-rise office tower in downtown Los Angeles, known for its distinctive glass-and-concrete design and reflecting pools.
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A.
Los Angeles City Hall
Los Angeles City Hall is the historic and iconic main municipal building of Los Angeles, housing the mayor’s office and the city council chambers.
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B.
Los Angeles County Hall of Administration
The Los Angeles County Hall of Administration is a major government building in downtown Los Angeles that houses the offices and meeting chambers of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and key county administrative departments.
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C.
Bullocks Wilshire building
The Bullocks Wilshire building is a historic Art Deco former luxury department store in Los Angeles, renowned for its iconic tower and role in the city’s early 20th-century retail and architectural history.
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D.
Ahmanson Building
The Ahmanson Building is a major gallery and exhibition space within the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, housing significant portions of its art collections.
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E.
One Wilshire building
The One Wilshire building is a major telecommunications hub and office skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles, renowned as one of the world’s most important internet exchange and data center facilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Modernist building
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headquarters building ⓘ high-rise building ⓘ office building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
International Style
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Modernism ⓘ |
| buildingType | commercial office ⓘ |
| category |
Headquarters of government-owned companies in the United States
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Modernist architecture in California ⓘ Skyscraper office buildings in Los Angeles ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| function | office ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
concrete frame
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glass curtain walls ⓘ landscaped plaza ⓘ perimeter reflecting pools ⓘ raised podium ⓘ sun-shading louvers ⓘ |
| hasMaterial |
concrete
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glass ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfStories | high-rise ⓘ |
| hasSurrounding | reflecting pools ⓘ |
| isAlsoKnownAs |
Department of Water and Power Headquarters
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LADWP Building ⓘ |
| isLandmarkOf |
Los Angeles civic center
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linked to:
Los Angeles Civic Center
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| locatedIn |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
Downtown Los Angeles ⓘ Los Angeles ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| neighborhood | Bunker Hill ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Modernist corporate architecture
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distinctive glass-and-concrete design ⓘ reflecting pools surrounding the building ⓘ |
| occupant | Los Angeles Department of Water and Power ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
City of Los Angeles
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linked to:
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power ⓘ |
| partOf |
Los Angeles Civic Center area
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linked to:
Los Angeles Civic Center
|
| streetAddress | 111 North Hope Street ⓘ |
| use |
administrative offices
ⓘ
utility headquarters ⓘ |
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: Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Building Description of subject: The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Building is a prominent Modernist high-rise office tower in downtown Los Angeles, known for its distinctive glass-and-concrete design and reflecting pools.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Building
subject linked to:
Grand Avenue
Grand Avenue (Los Angeles)
→
hasCivicBuilding
→
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Building
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subject linked to:
Grand Avenue
Grand Avenue (Downtown Los Angeles)
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hasLandmark
→
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Building
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subject linked to:
Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles