Metropolitan Life North Building
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The Metropolitan Life North Building is a historic skyscraper in Manhattan’s Flatiron District that was developed as an expansion of the MetLife complex and is notable for its Art Deco design and massive, block-long footprint.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Home Office complex | 1 |
| Metropolitan Life North Building canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11976068 — 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: Metropolitan Life North Building Context triple: [Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, adjacentTo, Metropolitan Life North Building]
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A.
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower is a historic early 20th-century skyscraper in Manhattan, modeled after the Campanile in Venice and once the tallest building in the world.
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B.
Johnson Building
The Johnson Building is a modernist wing of the Boston Public Library’s Copley Square main branch, known for housing its contemporary collections and public services.
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C.
Manhattan Life Insurance Building
The Manhattan Life Insurance Building was a pioneering early skyscraper in New York City and one of the tallest office buildings of its time.
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D.
The Metropolitan Tower
The Metropolitan Tower is a historic high-rise building in downtown Chicago known for its distinctive Art Deco architecture and prominent position along Michigan Avenue.
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E.
Astor Place Tower, New York
Astor Place Tower in New York is a distinctive modern residential high-rise known for its curving glass façade and prominent presence in Manhattan’s East Village 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: Metropolitan Life North Building Target entity description: The Metropolitan Life North Building is a historic skyscraper in Manhattan’s Flatiron District that was developed as an expansion of the MetLife complex and is notable for its Art Deco design and massive, block-long footprint.
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A.
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower is a historic early 20th-century skyscraper in Manhattan, modeled after the Campanile in Venice and once the tallest building in the world.
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B.
Johnson Building
The Johnson Building is a modernist wing of the Boston Public Library’s Copley Square main branch, known for housing its contemporary collections and public services.
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C.
Manhattan Life Insurance Building
The Manhattan Life Insurance Building was a pioneering early skyscraper in New York City and one of the tallest office buildings of its time.
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D.
The Metropolitan Tower
The Metropolitan Tower is a historic high-rise building in downtown Chicago known for its distinctive Art Deco architecture and prominent position along Michigan Avenue.
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E.
Astor Place Tower, New York
Astor Place Tower in New York is a distinctive modern residential high-rise known for its curving glass façade and prominent presence in Manhattan’s East Village skyline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Home Office complex
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linked to: Metropolitan Life North Building