May Company Building
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The May Company Building is a historic Streamline Moderne department store structure on Los Angeles’s Miracle Mile, now known for housing the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| May Company Building canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T952190 — 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: May Company Building Context triple: [Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, formerBuildingUse, May Company Building]
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A.
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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B.
McClurg Building
The McClurg Building is a historic Chicago commercial structure recognized as a significant example of early skyscraper design by the architectural firm Holabird & Roche.
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C.
Scribner Building
The Scribner Building is a historic Beaux-Arts style commercial structure in Manhattan that once housed the prominent American publishing firm Charles Scribner's Sons.
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D.
Reliance Building
The Reliance Building is a pioneering late-19th-century Chicago skyscraper celebrated for its early use of steel-frame construction and expansive glass façades, making it a landmark of the Chicago School of architecture.
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E.
Marquette Building
The Marquette Building is a landmark early Chicago School skyscraper in downtown Chicago, celebrated for its steel-frame construction and richly ornamented terra-cotta and mosaic detailing.
- 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: May Company Building Target entity description: The May Company Building is a historic Streamline Moderne department store structure on Los Angeles’s Miracle Mile, now known for housing the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
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A.
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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B.
McClurg Building
The McClurg Building is a historic Chicago commercial structure recognized as a significant example of early skyscraper design by the architectural firm Holabird & Roche.
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C.
Scribner Building
The Scribner Building is a historic Beaux-Arts style commercial structure in Manhattan that once housed the prominent American publishing firm Charles Scribner's Sons.
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D.
Reliance Building
The Reliance Building is a pioneering late-19th-century Chicago skyscraper celebrated for its early use of steel-frame construction and expansive glass façades, making it a landmark of the Chicago School of architecture.
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E.
Marquette Building
The Marquette Building is a landmark early Chicago School skyscraper in downtown Chicago, celebrated for its steel-frame construction and richly ornamented terra-cotta and mosaic detailing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Art Deco architecture
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Streamline Moderne building ⓘ department store building ⓘ historic building ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Saban Building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Art Deco
ⓘ
Streamline Moderne ⓘ |
| category |
Commercial building in Los Angeles
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Department store building in the United States ⓘ Streamline Moderne architecture in California ⓘ |
| city | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| currentTenant | Academy Museum of Motion Pictures ⓘ |
| currentUse | museum building ⓘ |
| designedAs | flagship department store ⓘ |
| formerTenant |
May Department Stores Company
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surface form:
May Company California
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| formerUse | department store ⓘ |
| hasAddress | 6067 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
cultural institution
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exhibition space ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic landmark ⓘ |
| locatedInDistrict | Miracle Mile ⓘ |
| locatedInNeighborhood | Mid-Wilshire ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Wilshire Boulevard ⓘ |
| location |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| notableFor |
Streamline Moderne facade
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gold-tiled cylinder at the corner ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1939 ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ⓘ |
| partOf | Academy Museum of Motion Pictures ⓘ |
| region |
Miracle Mile
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surface form:
Miracle Mile, Los Angeles
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| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
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: May Company Building Description of subject: The May Company Building is a historic Streamline Moderne department store structure on Los Angeles’s Miracle Mile, now known for housing the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.