Southern California Edison Company Building (Los Angeles)
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The Southern California Edison Company Building in Los Angeles is a historic early-20th-century office building known for its distinctive architecture and association with the growth of the region’s electric power industry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Southern California Edison Company Building (Los Angeles) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6323501 — 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: Southern California Edison Company Building (Los Angeles) Context triple: [Donald B. Parkinson, notableWork, Southern California Edison Company Building (Los Angeles)]
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A.
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Building
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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B.
Los Angeles Board of Education Building
The Los Angeles Board of Education Building is a historic civic structure in Los Angeles designed by prominent architect John C. Austin, known for its role in housing the city's educational administration.
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C.
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Building
The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Building is a historic early 20th-century commercial landmark in downtown Los Angeles, designed in a Beaux-Arts/Neoclassical style that reflects the city’s growth as a major economic center.
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D.
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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E.
Bank of America Plaza (Los Angeles)
Bank of America Plaza (Los Angeles) is a prominent modernist skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles that serves as a major commercial office tower and a key feature of the Bunker Hill skyline.
- 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: Southern California Edison Company Building (Los Angeles) Target entity description: The Southern California Edison Company Building in Los Angeles is a historic early-20th-century office building known for its distinctive architecture and association with the growth of the region’s electric power industry.
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A.
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Building
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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B.
Los Angeles Board of Education Building
The Los Angeles Board of Education Building is a historic civic structure in Los Angeles designed by prominent architect John C. Austin, known for its role in housing the city's educational administration.
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C.
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Building
The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Building is a historic early 20th-century commercial landmark in downtown Los Angeles, designed in a Beaux-Arts/Neoclassical style that reflects the city’s growth as a major economic center.
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D.
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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E.
Bank of America Plaza (Los Angeles)
Bank of America Plaza (Los Angeles) is a prominent modernist skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles that serves as a major commercial office tower and a key feature of the Bunker Hill skyline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
early 20th-century building
ⓘ
office building ⓘ |
| architecturalSignificance | distinctive architecture ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Southern California Edison
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electric power industry in Southern California ⓘ growth of regional electric power infrastructure ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Los Angeles
ⓘ
Historic commercial buildings in the United States ⓘ Office buildings in California ⓘ |
| city | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| constructionPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasFunction | corporate headquarters (historical) ⓘ |
| hasTenant |
Southern California Edison (historical)
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linked to:
Southern California Edison
|
| heritageStatus | historic property ⓘ |
| industryContext | electric power industry ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Los Angeles ⓘ Los Angeles County ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| significance |
example of early 20th-century commercial architecture in Los Angeles
ⓘ
represents expansion of electric utilities in Los Angeles ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| usedFor |
administrative functions
ⓘ
office space ⓘ |
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: Southern California Edison Company Building (Los Angeles) Description of subject: The Southern California Edison Company Building in Los Angeles is a historic early-20th-century office building known for its distinctive architecture and association with the growth of the region’s electric power industry.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.