Emery Roth & Sons
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Emery Roth & Sons was a prominent 20th-century American architectural firm known for designing numerous notable skyscrapers and commercial buildings, particularly in New York City.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Emery Roth & Sons canonical | 23 |
| Emery Roth & Sons, P.C. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T438266 — 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: Emery Roth & Sons Context triple: [North Tower of the World Trade Center, architecturalFirm, Emery Roth & Sons]
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A.
Ellerbe Becket
Ellerbe Becket is a major American architectural and engineering firm known for designing large-scale sports, entertainment, and public assembly venues worldwide.
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B.
Sullivan & Worcester
Sullivan & Worcester is a Boston-based law firm known for its corporate, tax, and real estate practices and its work with business and financial clients.
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C.
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson is an American architecture firm renowned for its innovative, minimalist designs for high-profile clients, including numerous iconic Apple retail stores.
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D.
Holabird & Roche
Holabird & Roche was a prominent Chicago-based architectural firm known for its influential early skyscraper designs and major civic projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is a prominent American architecture and engineering firm renowned for designing major modernist and high-rise buildings worldwide.
- 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: Emery Roth & Sons Target entity description: Emery Roth & Sons was a prominent 20th-century American architectural firm known for designing numerous notable skyscrapers and commercial buildings, particularly in New York City.
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A.
Ellerbe Becket
Ellerbe Becket is a major American architectural and engineering firm known for designing large-scale sports, entertainment, and public assembly venues worldwide.
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B.
Sullivan & Worcester
Sullivan & Worcester is a Boston-based law firm known for its corporate, tax, and real estate practices and its work with business and financial clients.
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C.
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson is an American architecture firm renowned for its innovative, minimalist designs for high-profile clients, including numerous iconic Apple retail stores.
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D.
Holabird & Roche
Holabird & Roche was a prominent Chicago-based architectural firm known for its influential early skyscraper designs and major civic projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is a prominent American architecture and engineering firm renowned for designing major modernist and high-rise buildings worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American company
ⓘ
architectural firm ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
International Style
ⓘ
Modernism ⓘ |
| areaServed |
New York City metropolitan area
ⓘ
linked to:
New York metropolitan area
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| associatedWith | New York real estate developers of the 20th century ⓘ |
| basedIn | Manhattan ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| field | architecture ⓘ |
| focus |
commercial high-rise design
ⓘ
office building planning ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Emery Roth ⓘ |
| genre |
commercial architecture
ⓘ
skyscraper design ⓘ |
| hasReputation | prominent 20th-century New York architectural firm ⓘ |
| industry | architecture and design ⓘ |
| influenced |
New York City skyline
ⓘ
linked to:
Manhattan skyline
|
| legacy | portfolio of landmark New York skyscrapers ⓘ |
| location | New York City ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Emery Roth ⓘ |
| notableClientType |
corporate clients
ⓘ
real estate developers ⓘ |
| notableFor |
New York City office buildings
ⓘ
collaborations with other major architectural firms ⓘ commercial building design ⓘ design of skyscrapers ⓘ |
| notableProject |
MetLife Building
ⓘ
Midtown Manhattan skyscrapers ⓘ
linked to:
Midtown Manhattan
Pan Am Building ⓘ Park Avenue office towers ⓘ World Trade Center site buildings (collaborations) ⓘ
linked to:
World Trade Center (reconstructed complex)
|
| operatedIn | 20th century New York real estate boom ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Emery Roth (individual practice)
ⓘ
linked to:
Emery Roth
|
| regionOfActivity | New York City ⓘ |
| regionOfInfluence |
American commercial architecture
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| specialization |
high-rise commercial buildings
ⓘ
office skyscrapers ⓘ |
| successor |
Emery Roth & Sons, P.C.
ⓘ
linked to:
Emery Roth & Sons
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| timePeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| typeOfBusiness | privately held firm ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Lower Manhattan
ⓘ
Midtown Manhattan ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Emery Roth & Sons Description of subject: Emery Roth & Sons was a prominent 20th-century American architectural firm known for designing numerous notable skyscrapers and commercial buildings, particularly in New York City.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
2 Broadway, Manhattan
linked to: Emery Roth & Sons
subject linked to:
Pan Am Building, New York (as co-designer)
subject linked to:
Pan Am Building, New York (as co-designer)