Discovery Building (former Discovery Communications headquarters)
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The Discovery Building is a prominent office complex in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, best known as the longtime former global headquarters of Discovery Communications.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Discovery Building (former Discovery Communications headquarters) canonical | 1 |
| Discovery Communications global headquarters | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T959530 — 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: Discovery Building (former Discovery Communications headquarters) Context triple: [Silver Spring, Maryland, hasLandmark, Discovery Building (former Discovery Communications headquarters)]
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A.
News Corporation Building
The News Corporation Building is a prominent skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan that serves as the headquarters for News Corp and houses major media operations including Fox News and related networks.
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B.
Ford Foundation Building
The Ford Foundation Building is a notable modernist office building in Midtown Manhattan, renowned for its innovative indoor garden atrium and its role as the headquarters of the Ford Foundation.
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C.
IAC Building
The IAC Building is a distinctive glass-clad office building in Manhattan designed by architect Frank Gehry to serve as the headquarters of InterActiveCorp (IAC).
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D.
Associated Press Building
The Associated Press Building is a prominent Art Deco skyscraper within New York City's Rockefeller Center complex that historically housed the headquarters of the Associated Press news agency.
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E.
Capitol Records Building
The Capitol Records Building is an iconic, circular high-rise in Hollywood, Los Angeles, famous for its resemblance to a stack of vinyl records and its role as a historic recording industry landmark.
- 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: Discovery Building (former Discovery Communications headquarters) Target entity description: The Discovery Building is a prominent office complex in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, best known as the longtime former global headquarters of Discovery Communications.
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A.
News Corporation Building
The News Corporation Building is a prominent skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan that serves as the headquarters for News Corp and houses major media operations including Fox News and related networks.
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B.
Ford Foundation Building
The Ford Foundation Building is a notable modernist office building in Midtown Manhattan, renowned for its innovative indoor garden atrium and its role as the headquarters of the Ford Foundation.
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C.
IAC Building
The IAC Building is a distinctive glass-clad office building in Manhattan designed by architect Frank Gehry to serve as the headquarters of InterActiveCorp (IAC).
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D.
Associated Press Building
The Associated Press Building is a prominent Art Deco skyscraper within New York City's Rockefeller Center complex that historically housed the headquarters of the Associated Press news agency.
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E.
Capitol Records Building
The Capitol Records Building is an iconic, circular high-rise in Hollywood, Los Angeles, famous for its resemblance to a stack of vinyl records and its role as a historic recording industry landmark.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial building
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office building ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Discovery Building (former Discovery Communications headquarters)
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surface form:
Discovery Communications global headquarters
Discovery Communications headquarters ⓘ Discovery global headquarters ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Montgomery County, Maryland
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Discovery, Inc. ⓘ Office buildings in Maryland ⓘ |
| city | Silver Spring, Maryland ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| county |
Montgomery County
ⓘ
surface form:
Montgomery County, Maryland
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| formerHeadquartersOf |
Discovery, Inc.
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surface form:
Discovery Communications
Discovery, Inc. ⓘ |
| formerTenant |
Discovery, Inc.
ⓘ
surface form:
Discovery Communications
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| hasFunction | corporate headquarters (former) ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Silver Spring, Maryland
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
downtown Silver Spring ⓘ |
| notableFor | being longtime global headquarters of Discovery Communications ⓘ |
| occupant |
Discovery Communications (former headquarters)
ⓘ
surface form:
Discovery Communications
|
| region | Washington metropolitan area ⓘ |
| significance | prominent office complex in downtown Silver Spring ⓘ |
| state | Maryland ⓘ |
| use |
commercial offices
ⓘ
office ⓘ |
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: Discovery Building (former Discovery Communications headquarters) Description of subject: The Discovery Building is a prominent office complex in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, best known as the longtime former global headquarters of Discovery Communications.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Silver Spring, Maryland
→
hasLandmark
→
Discovery Building (former Discovery Communications headquarters)
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Discovery Building (former Discovery Communications headquarters)
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alsoKnownAs
→
Discovery Building (former Discovery Communications headquarters)
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subject surface form:
Discovery Building
this entity surface form:
Discovery Communications global headquarters