Mogamma building
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The Mogamma building is a massive Soviet-style government administrative complex in central Cairo, long known as a bureaucratic hub and landmark overlooking Tahrir Square.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mogamma building canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1196070 — 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: Mogamma building Context triple: [Tahrir Square, hasNearbyBuilding, Mogamma building]
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A.
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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B.
Al Hamra Tower
Al Hamra Tower is a prominent skyscraper in Kuwait City known for its distinctive twisting design and status as one of the tallest buildings in Kuwait.
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C.
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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D.
Al Rifa'i Mosque
Al Rifa'i Mosque is a grand 19th–20th century royal mosque in Cairo, Egypt, known for housing the tombs of Egyptian royals and notable Middle Eastern leaders.
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E.
Qibli Mosque building
The Qibli Mosque building is the southern prayer hall within Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, serving as one of the principal congregational mosques in the Noble Sanctuary.
- 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: Mogamma building Target entity description: The Mogamma building is a massive Soviet-style government administrative complex in central Cairo, long known as a bureaucratic hub and landmark overlooking Tahrir Square.
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A.
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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B.
Al Hamra Tower
Al Hamra Tower is a prominent skyscraper in Kuwait City known for its distinctive twisting design and status as one of the tallest buildings in Kuwait.
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C.
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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D.
Al Rifa'i Mosque
Al Rifa'i Mosque is a grand 19th–20th century royal mosque in Cairo, Egypt, known for housing the tombs of Egyptian royals and notable Middle Eastern leaders.
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E.
Qibli Mosque building
The Qibli Mosque building is the southern prayer hall within Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, serving as one of the principal congregational mosques in the Noble Sanctuary.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government building
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landmark ⓘ office building ⓘ |
| administeredBy |
Egyptian government
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surface form:
Government of Egypt
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| architecturalStyle |
Soviet-style
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brutalist architecture ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Cairo
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Government buildings in Egypt ⓘ Office buildings in Egypt ⓘ Tahrir Square ⓘ |
| city | Cairo ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Egypt ⓘ |
| culturalMeaning | icon of state bureaucracy in Egypt ⓘ |
| hasAddress |
Tahrir Square
ⓘ
surface form:
Tahrir Square, Downtown Cairo, Egypt
|
| hasFunction |
issuance of identity documents
ⓘ
issuance of passports ⓘ issuance of visas ⓘ residency permits ⓘ various civil services ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage |
El Mogamma
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Mugamma el-Tahrir ⓘ مجمع التحرير ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a central government hub
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bureaucratic procedures ⓘ large crowds ⓘ long queues ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cairo
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Downtown Cairo ⓘ Tahrir Square ⓘ |
| near |
Tahrir Square
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surface form:
Tahrir Square metro stations
|
| overlooks | Tahrir Square ⓘ |
| partOf | Egyptian government ⓘ |
| proximityTo |
Egyptian Museum
ⓘ
Nile ⓘ
surface form:
Nile River
|
| region |
Greater Cairo metropolitan area
ⓘ
surface form:
Greater Cairo
|
| role | centralized location for multiple ministries and agencies ⓘ |
| significance |
key landmark of central Cairo
ⓘ
major symbol of Egyptian bureaucracy ⓘ |
| urbanContext | part of the governmental district around Tahrir Square ⓘ |
| usedFor |
bureaucratic services
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government administration ⓘ public administration ⓘ |
| visibility | prominent in the skyline of central Cairo ⓘ |
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: Mogamma building Description of subject: The Mogamma building is a massive Soviet-style government administrative complex in central Cairo, long known as a bureaucratic hub and landmark overlooking Tahrir Square.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Headquarters of the Arab League