Uris Buildings Corporation
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Uris Buildings Corporation was a prominent mid-20th-century New York City real estate development firm known for constructing major commercial skyscrapers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Uris Buildings Corporation canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7836967 — 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: Uris Buildings Corporation Context triple: [General Motors Building, developer, Uris Buildings Corporation]
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A.
The Durst Organization
The Durst Organization is a prominent New York City–based real estate development and management company known for its portfolio of major commercial skyscrapers and sustainable office buildings.
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B.
Rockefeller Group
Rockefeller Group is a prominent American real estate development and investment company best known for its role in developing and managing major commercial properties, including parts of Rockefeller Center in New York City.
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C.
Tishman Construction
Tishman Construction is a major American construction management firm known for building prominent high-rise and large-scale commercial projects, particularly in New York City.
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D.
Tishman Speyer
Tishman Speyer is a global real estate development and investment firm known for owning and managing landmark commercial properties in major cities worldwide.
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E.
Bryant Park Corporation
Bryant Park Corporation is a private not-for-profit organization that manages, maintains, and programs Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
- 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: Uris Buildings Corporation Target entity description: Uris Buildings Corporation was a prominent mid-20th-century New York City real estate development firm known for constructing major commercial skyscrapers.
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A.
The Durst Organization
The Durst Organization is a prominent New York City–based real estate development and management company known for its portfolio of major commercial skyscrapers and sustainable office buildings.
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B.
Rockefeller Group
Rockefeller Group is a prominent American real estate development and investment company best known for its role in developing and managing major commercial properties, including parts of Rockefeller Center in New York City.
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C.
Tishman Construction
Tishman Construction is a major American construction management firm known for building prominent high-rise and large-scale commercial projects, particularly in New York City.
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D.
Tishman Speyer
Tishman Speyer is a global real estate development and investment firm known for owning and managing landmark commercial properties in major cities worldwide.
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E.
Bryant Park Corporation
Bryant Park Corporation is a private not-for-profit organization that manages, maintains, and programs Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
property development firm
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real estate development company ⓘ |
| activity |
acquiring land for large-scale office projects
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developing speculative office towers ⓘ leasing commercial office space ⓘ |
| businessFocus |
commercial skyscraper construction
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office building development ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| hasReputationFor |
contributing to postwar urban redevelopment in New York City
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large-scale commercial development projects ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Manhattan ⓘ |
| industry |
commercial property development
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real estate ⓘ |
| location | New York City ⓘ |
| notableFor |
developing mid-20th-century commercial skyscrapers in New York City
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influencing postwar Manhattan skyline ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
20th century
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mid-20th century ⓘ |
| regionServed | New York metropolitan area ⓘ |
| typeOfBusiness | privately held company ⓘ |
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: Uris Buildings Corporation Description of subject: Uris Buildings Corporation was a prominent mid-20th-century New York City real estate development firm known for constructing major commercial skyscrapers.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.