Spiral Building
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Spiral Building is a landmark postmodern cultural and commercial complex in Tokyo designed by renowned Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spiral Building canonical | 4 |
| GYRE building | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T678244 — 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: Spiral Building Context triple: [Fumihiko Maki, notableWork, Spiral Building]
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A.
A-frame Tower
A-frame Tower is the iconic, monorail-through-the-middle main building of Disney's Contemporary Resort at Walt Disney World.
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B.
Eureka Tower
Eureka Tower is a prominent residential skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia, known for its striking gold-plated crown and once being one of the tallest residential buildings in the world.
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C.
Walter Pyramid
Walter Pyramid is a distinctive blue, pyramid-shaped indoor arena on the campus of California State University, Long Beach, best known as a venue for college basketball and volleyball.
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D.
V-Site buildings
The V-Site buildings are historic Los Alamos structures where key work on the first atomic bombs was conducted during the Manhattan Project.
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E.
Aspire Tower
Aspire Tower is a prominent skyscraper and hotel in Doha, Qatar, known for its torch-like design and role as a symbol of the 2006 Asian Games.
- 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: Spiral Building Target entity description: Spiral Building is a landmark postmodern cultural and commercial complex in Tokyo designed by renowned Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki.
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A.
A-frame Tower
A-frame Tower is the iconic, monorail-through-the-middle main building of Disney's Contemporary Resort at Walt Disney World.
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B.
Eureka Tower
Eureka Tower is a prominent residential skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia, known for its striking gold-plated crown and once being one of the tallest residential buildings in the world.
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C.
Walter Pyramid
Walter Pyramid is a distinctive blue, pyramid-shaped indoor arena on the campus of California State University, Long Beach, best known as a venue for college basketball and volleyball.
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D.
V-Site buildings
The V-Site buildings are historic Los Alamos structures where key work on the first atomic bombs was conducted during the Manhattan Project.
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E.
Aspire Tower
Aspire Tower is a prominent skyscraper and hotel in Doha, Qatar, known for its torch-like design and role as a symbol of the 2006 Asian Games.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building
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commercial complex ⓘ cultural complex ⓘ postmodern architecture ⓘ |
| alternativeName | Spiral ⓘ |
| architect | Fumihiko Maki ⓘ |
| architectNationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| category |
Tokyo landmark
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art center in Tokyo ⓘ commercial building in Tokyo ⓘ |
| city | Tokyo ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | Wacoal ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| designer | Fumihiko Maki ⓘ |
| function |
art gallery
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event space ⓘ office space ⓘ restaurant space ⓘ retail space ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRole |
contemporary art hub in Tokyo
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design and lifestyle venue ⓘ |
| hasUse |
cafés
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design shops ⓘ exhibitions ⓘ performances ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Minato, Tokyo
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linked to:
Minato
Tokyo ⓘ |
| material |
concrete
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glass ⓘ metal ⓘ |
| neighborhood | Aoyama ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
interior spiral ramp
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multi-level atrium ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1985 ⓘ |
| owner | Wacoal ⓘ |
| purpose |
commercial activities
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cultural activities ⓘ |
| region | Kantō region ⓘ |
| street | Aoyama-dori ⓘ |
| style | postmodern ⓘ |
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: Spiral Building Description of subject: Spiral Building is a landmark postmodern cultural and commercial complex in Tokyo designed by renowned Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.