Burj Khalifa
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Burj Khalifa is the world’s tallest skyscraper, a landmark of modern engineering and architecture located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Burj Khalifa canonical | 54 |
| Burj Dubai | 1 |
| Burj Khalifa At The Top access | 1 |
| Burj Khalifa area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T94709 — 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: Burj Khalifa Context triple: [Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, notableWork, Burj Khalifa]
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A.
Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is an iconic 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan that was once the world’s tallest building and remains a symbol of New York City.
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B.
Transamerica Pyramid
The Transamerica Pyramid is an iconic, pyramid-shaped skyscraper in San Francisco and one of the city's most recognizable architectural landmarks.
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C.
The Shard
The Shard is a landmark glass skyscraper in London known for its sharp, shard-like design and status as one of the tallest buildings in the United Kingdom.
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D.
One World Trade Center
One World Trade Center is the main skyscraper of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan and the tallest building in the United States.
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E.
Willis Tower
Willis Tower is a 110-story skyscraper in downtown Chicago that was once the tallest building in the world and remains an iconic feature of the city's 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: Burj Khalifa Target entity description: Burj Khalifa is the world’s tallest skyscraper, a landmark of modern engineering and architecture located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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A.
Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is an iconic 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan that was once the world’s tallest building and remains a symbol of New York City.
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B.
Transamerica Pyramid
The Transamerica Pyramid is an iconic, pyramid-shaped skyscraper in San Francisco and one of the city's most recognizable architectural landmarks.
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C.
The Shard
The Shard is a landmark glass skyscraper in London known for its sharp, shard-like design and status as one of the tallest buildings in the United Kingdom.
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D.
One World Trade Center
One World Trade Center is the main skyscraper of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan and the tallest building in the United States.
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E.
Willis Tower
Willis Tower is a 110-story skyscraper in downtown Chicago that was once the tallest building in the world and remains an iconic feature of the city's skyline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mixed-use building
ⓘ
observation tower ⓘ skyscraper ⓘ |
| architect | Adrian Smith ⓘ |
| architecturalHeight | 828 metres ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | neo-futurism ⓘ |
| architectureFirm | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill ⓘ |
| buildingType |
commercial
ⓘ
hotel ⓘ residential ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 2004-01-06 ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | United Arab Emirates ⓘ |
| developer | Emaar Properties ⓘ |
| elevatorCount | 57 ⓘ |
| floorArea | 309473 m² ⓘ |
| floorCount | 163 ⓘ |
| formerName |
Burj Khalifa
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Burj Dubai
|
| hasFeature |
LED facade lighting system
ⓘ
Y-shaped floor plan ⓘ buttressed core structural system ⓘ |
| hasObservationDeck |
At the Top
ⓘ
At the Top ⓘ
surface form:
At the Top SKY
|
| height |
2717 feet
ⓘ
828 metres ⓘ |
| inauguratedBy | Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Downtown Dubai
ⓘ
Dubai ⓘ |
| mainContractor |
Arabtec
ⓘ
BESIX ⓘ Samsung C&T ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan ⓘ |
| nearbyAttraction |
Dubai Fountain
ⓘ
surface form:
The Dubai Fountain
Dubai Mall ⓘ
surface form:
The Dubai Mall
|
| observationDeckHeight |
452 metres
ⓘ
555 metres ⓘ |
| openingDate | 2010-01-04 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Downtown Dubai
ⓘ
surface form:
Downtown Dubai development
|
| status | completed ⓘ |
| structuralEngineer | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill ⓘ |
| tipHeight | 828 metres ⓘ |
| toppedOutDate | 2009-01-17 ⓘ |
| uses |
hotel rooms
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observation ⓘ office ⓘ residential apartments ⓘ |
| worldRanking |
building with highest occupied floor
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tallest building in the world ⓘ tallest free-standing structure in the world ⓘ tallest service elevator in the world ⓘ |
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: Burj Khalifa Description of subject: Burj Khalifa is the world’s tallest skyscraper, a landmark of modern engineering and architecture located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Referenced by (57)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.