IBM pavilion
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The IBM pavilion was a modernist exhibition space showcasing International Business Machines' latest technologies and visions of the future to visitors at the 1939–1940 New York World's Fair.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| IBM building designs | 1 |
| IBM pavilion canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11548196 — 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: IBM pavilion Context triple: [New York World's Fair (1939–1940), featuredPavilion, IBM pavilion]
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A.
Fujitsu Pavilion
Fujitsu Pavilion was a major corporate exhibition space at Expo '85 in Tsukuba, Japan, showcasing Fujitsu’s cutting-edge information and computer technologies of the time.
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B.
Apple Park Visitor Center
Apple Park Visitor Center is a public-facing Apple facility in Cupertino offering a retail store, exhibition space, café, and rooftop terrace with views of the Apple Park campus.
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C.
World’s Fair Pavilion
The World’s Fair Pavilion is a historic open-air event venue in St. Louis’s Forest Park, originally built on the site of the 1904 World’s Fair and now used for public gatherings and celebrations.
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D.
Hitachi Pavilion
The Hitachi Pavilion was a corporate exhibition space created by the Hitachi Group for Expo '85 in Tsukuba, Japan, showcasing advanced technology and innovation.
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E.
United States Science Pavilion
The United States Science Pavilion was a major exhibition complex in Seattle that showcased American scientific and technological achievements during the 1962 World’s Fair and later became part of the Pacific Science Center.
- 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: IBM pavilion Target entity description: The IBM pavilion was a modernist exhibition space showcasing International Business Machines' latest technologies and visions of the future to visitors at the 1939–1940 New York World's Fair.
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A.
Fujitsu Pavilion
Fujitsu Pavilion was a major corporate exhibition space at Expo '85 in Tsukuba, Japan, showcasing Fujitsu’s cutting-edge information and computer technologies of the time.
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B.
Apple Park Visitor Center
Apple Park Visitor Center is a public-facing Apple facility in Cupertino offering a retail store, exhibition space, café, and rooftop terrace with views of the Apple Park campus.
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C.
World’s Fair Pavilion
The World’s Fair Pavilion is a historic open-air event venue in St. Louis’s Forest Park, originally built on the site of the 1904 World’s Fair and now used for public gatherings and celebrations.
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D.
Hitachi Pavilion
The Hitachi Pavilion was a corporate exhibition space created by the Hitachi Group for Expo '85 in Tsukuba, Japan, showcasing advanced technology and innovation.
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E.
United States Science Pavilion
The United States Science Pavilion was a major exhibition complex in Seattle that showcased American scientific and technological achievements during the 1962 World’s Fair and later became part of the Pacific Science Center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
World's Fair pavilion
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exhibition pavilion ⓘ modernist architecture ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Modernism ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
corporate public relations
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history of computing ⓘ |
| closingDate | 1940 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| eventSeries |
New York World's Fair corporate pavilions
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linked to:
New York World's Fair (1939–1940)
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| exhibited |
business calculators
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punch card equipment ⓘ tabulating machines ⓘ |
| exhibitedAt |
1939–1940 New York World's Fair
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linked to:
New York World's Fair (1939–1940)
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| exhibitionType |
corporate pavilion
ⓘ
technology exhibition ⓘ |
| languageOfExhibit | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park
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Queens, New York City ⓘ
linked to:
Queens
|
| notableFor |
demonstrations of data processing
ⓘ
public education about computing ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1939 ⓘ |
| operator |
International Business Machines
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linked to:
IBM
|
| partOf | corporate exhibits at the 1939–1940 New York World's Fair ⓘ |
| purpose |
to present visions of the future
ⓘ
to showcase IBM technologies ⓘ |
| sponsoredBy |
IBM
ⓘ
International Business Machines ⓘ
linked to:
IBM
|
| targetAudience | World's Fair visitors ⓘ |
| theme |
automation
ⓘ
business machines ⓘ future of computing ⓘ |
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: IBM pavilion Description of subject: The IBM pavilion was a modernist exhibition space showcasing International Business Machines' latest technologies and visions of the future to visitors at the 1939–1940 New York World's Fair.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: IBM pavilion