Fisher Building
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The Fisher Building is a landmark Art Deco skyscraper in Detroit, Michigan, renowned for its ornate design and status as one of architect Albert Kahn’s masterworks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fisher Building canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4931849 — 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: Fisher Building Context triple: [Albert Kahn, designed, Fisher Building]
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A.
McClurg Building
The McClurg Building is a historic Chicago commercial structure recognized as a significant example of early skyscraper design by the architectural firm Holabird & Roche.
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B.
Davis Building
The Davis Building is a facility located on the campus of the University of Texas at Martin (UTM), used for academic and institutional purposes.
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C.
Leacock Building
The Leacock Building is a major academic and classroom complex at McGill University’s downtown Montreal campus, housing numerous lecture halls, offices, and social science departments.
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D.
Madison Building
The Madison Building is one of the main Library of Congress structures in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections, reading rooms, and administrative offices.
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E.
Raymond Building
Raymond Building is a key academic and research facility located on McGill University's Macdonald Campus.
- 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: Fisher Building Target entity description: The Fisher Building is a landmark Art Deco skyscraper in Detroit, Michigan, renowned for its ornate design and status as one of architect Albert Kahn’s masterworks.
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A.
McClurg Building
The McClurg Building is a historic Chicago commercial structure recognized as a significant example of early skyscraper design by the architectural firm Holabird & Roche.
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B.
Davis Building
The Davis Building is a facility located on the campus of the University of Texas at Martin (UTM), used for academic and institutional purposes.
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C.
Leacock Building
The Leacock Building is a major academic and classroom complex at McGill University’s downtown Montreal campus, housing numerous lecture halls, offices, and social science departments.
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D.
Madison Building
The Madison Building is one of the main Library of Congress structures in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections, reading rooms, and administrative offices.
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E.
Raymond Building
Raymond Building is a key academic and research facility located on McGill University's Macdonald Campus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Art Deco building
ⓘ
landmark ⓘ office building ⓘ skyscraper ⓘ |
| architect | Albert Kahn ⓘ |
| architecturalFirm | Albert Kahn Associates ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Art Deco ⓘ |
| city | Detroit ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1928 ⓘ |
| constructionCost | approximately $9 million (1920s dollars) ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1927 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| developer |
Fisher brothers
ⓘ
linked to:
Fisher family
|
| floorCount | 30 ⓘ |
| function |
office space
ⓘ
retail space ⓘ |
| hasDome | yes ⓘ |
| hasLobby | multi-story arcade lobby ⓘ |
| hasObservationFeature | radio broadcast facilities ⓘ |
| hasPart | Fisher Theatre ⓘ |
| height |
130 m
ⓘ
428 ft ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
National Historic Landmark
ⓘ
National Register of Historic Places listing ⓘ
linked to:
National Register of Historic Places
|
| location |
Detroit, Michigan, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
|
| materialUsed |
bronze
ⓘ
limestone ⓘ marble ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Fisher Body Company
ⓘ
linked to:
Fisher Body
Fisher brothers ⓘ
linked to:
Fisher family
|
| neighborhood | New Center ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Art Deco design
ⓘ
ornate interior decoration ⓘ status as one of Albert Kahn’s masterworks ⓘ |
| NRHPListingDate | 1989 ⓘ |
| NRHPReferenceNumber | 86001098 ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1928 ⓘ |
| originalUse | headquarters for Fisher Body Company ⓘ |
| owner | The Platform ⓘ |
| partOf | New Center area of Detroit ⓘ |
| publicTransitAccess | near Detroit Amtrak station ⓘ |
| regionServed | Detroit metropolitan area ⓘ |
| roofType | green-tiled roof ⓘ |
| significance | major symbol of Detroit’s architectural heritage ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Michigan (most of state)
|
| streetAddress | 3011 West Grand Boulevard ⓘ |
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: Fisher Building Description of subject: The Fisher Building is a landmark Art Deco skyscraper in Detroit, Michigan, renowned for its ornate design and status as one of architect Albert Kahn’s masterworks.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.