Baťa skyscraper (Building No. 21)
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Baťa skyscraper (Building No. 21) is a pioneering functionalist high-rise office building in Zlín, Czech Republic, famously constructed for the Baťa shoe company in the 1930s and known for its innovative design features.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Baťa administrative building | 1 |
| Baťa skyscraper (Building No. 21) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1138760 — 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: Baťa skyscraper (Building No. 21) Context triple: [Zlín, hasLandmark, Baťa skyscraper (Building No. 21)]
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A.
Focsa Building
The Focsa Building is a prominent mid-20th-century modernist high-rise in Havana, Cuba, known as one of the tallest and most iconic residential structures in the city.
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B.
Herta and Paul Amir Building
The Herta and Paul Amir Building is a prominent contemporary wing of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, known for its striking geometric architecture and innovative exhibition spaces.
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C.
Dancing House
Dancing House is a famously deconstructivist, curving office building in Prague known for its dynamic, dancing-like silhouette designed by Frank Gehry and Vlado Milunić.
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D.
Nassif Building
The Nassif Building is a prominent federal office building in Washington, D.C., best known for long serving as the main headquarters of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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E.
Perelman Building
The Perelman Building is an annex of the Philadelphia Museum of Art known for its Art Deco architecture and galleries dedicated to modern and contemporary design, prints, drawings, and photography.
- 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: Baťa skyscraper (Building No. 21) Target entity description: Baťa skyscraper (Building No. 21) is a pioneering functionalist high-rise office building in Zlín, Czech Republic, famously constructed for the Baťa shoe company in the 1930s and known for its innovative design features.
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A.
Focsa Building
The Focsa Building is a prominent mid-20th-century modernist high-rise in Havana, Cuba, known as one of the tallest and most iconic residential structures in the city.
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B.
Herta and Paul Amir Building
The Herta and Paul Amir Building is a prominent contemporary wing of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, known for its striking geometric architecture and innovative exhibition spaces.
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C.
Dancing House
Dancing House is a famously deconstructivist, curving office building in Prague known for its dynamic, dancing-like silhouette designed by Frank Gehry and Vlado Milunić.
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D.
Nassif Building
The Nassif Building is a prominent federal office building in Washington, D.C., best known for long serving as the main headquarters of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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E.
Perelman Building
The Perelman Building is an annex of the Philadelphia Museum of Art known for its Art Deco architecture and galleries dedicated to modern and contemporary design, prints, drawings, and photography.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
functionalist building
ⓘ
high-rise building ⓘ office building ⓘ skyscraper ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Baťa skyscraper (Building No. 21)
ⓘ
surface form:
Baťa administrative building
Building No. 21 ⓘ |
| architecturalMovement | Modernism ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Functionalism ⓘ |
| city | Zlín ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1938 ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Czech Republic ⓘ |
| countryAtConstructionTime | Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| designedAs | symbol of Baťa corporate modernity ⓘ |
| designedFor | Baťa shoe company ⓘ |
| designedToServe |
Baťa company town
ⓘ
surface form:
Baťa industrial complex in Zlín
|
| era | interwar period ⓘ |
| floorCount | 16 ⓘ |
| hasElevator | yes ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
central service core
ⓘ
curtain wall-like glazed façades ⓘ roof terrace ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
administrative center
ⓘ
office space ⓘ |
| hasHeritageValue | yes ⓘ |
| hasInnovativeFeature |
advanced building services for its time
ⓘ
central air-conditioning system ⓘ office in an elevator for the company director ⓘ pneumatic tube mail system ⓘ |
| hasPlanningConcept | rational grid-based layout ⓘ |
| hasTechnologicalInnovation | integrated building services system ⓘ |
| height | 77 m ⓘ |
| isExampleOf |
early European skyscraper
ⓘ
industrial company headquarters architecture ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Czech Republic
ⓘ
Zlín ⓘ |
| material |
glass
ⓘ
reinforced concrete ⓘ steel ⓘ |
| notableFor |
innovative office organization
ⓘ
pioneering functionalist high-rise design in Europe ⓘ |
| originalFunction |
administrative headquarters
ⓘ
office building ⓘ |
| partOf |
Baťa company town
ⓘ
surface form:
Baťa company complex in Zlín
|
| region | Zlín Region ⓘ |
| startDate | 1936 ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Baťa shoe company
ⓘ
surface form:
Baťa company management
|
How these facts were elicited
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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: Baťa skyscraper (Building No. 21) Description of subject: Baťa skyscraper (Building No. 21) is a pioneering functionalist high-rise office building in Zlín, Czech Republic, famously constructed for the Baťa shoe company in the 1930s and known for its innovative design features.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Baťa administrative building