New York Life Insurance Building (Kansas City)
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The New York Life Insurance Building in Kansas City is a historic late-19th-century office building designed by prominent American architect Cass Gilbert, noted for its early skyscraper form and ornate architectural detailing.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New York Life Insurance Building (Kansas City) canonical | 3 |
| New York Life Insurance Company Building (Kansas City, Missouri) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1202953 — 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: New York Life Insurance Building (Kansas City) Context triple: [Cass Gilbert, notableWork, New York Life Insurance Building (Kansas City)]
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A.
A. T. & T. Building, Kansas City, Missouri
The A. T. & T. Building in Kansas City, Missouri is a modernist high-rise office tower designed by prominent American architect Edward Durell Stone.
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B.
May Company Building
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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C.
Humana Building
The Humana Building is a landmark skyscraper in Louisville, Kentucky, designed by architect Michael Graves and celebrated as an iconic example of postmodern architecture.
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D.
Chase Tower
Chase Tower is a prominent postmodern skyscraper and office building that dominates the skyline of downtown Dallas, Texas.
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E.
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.
- 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: New York Life Insurance Building (Kansas City) Target entity description: The New York Life Insurance Building in Kansas City is a historic late-19th-century office building designed by prominent American architect Cass Gilbert, noted for its early skyscraper form and ornate architectural detailing.
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A.
A. T. & T. Building, Kansas City, Missouri
The A. T. & T. Building in Kansas City, Missouri is a modernist high-rise office tower designed by prominent American architect Edward Durell Stone.
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B.
May Company Building
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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C.
Humana Building
The Humana Building is a landmark skyscraper in Louisville, Kentucky, designed by architect Michael Graves and celebrated as an iconic example of postmodern architecture.
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D.
Chase Tower
Chase Tower is a prominent postmodern skyscraper and office building that dominates the skyline of downtown Dallas, Texas.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial building
ⓘ
historic building ⓘ office building ⓘ skyscraper ⓘ |
| architect | Cass Gilbert ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
early skyscraper
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late 19th-century commercial style ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Kansas City, Missouri
ⓘ
Cass Gilbert buildings ⓘ Skyscraper office buildings in Missouri ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| era | late 19th century ⓘ |
| floorCount | multiple stories ⓘ |
| function | commercial offices ⓘ |
| hasArchitect | Cass Gilbert ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
elevator-equipped
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ornate architectural detailing ⓘ steel-frame construction ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
decorative cornice
ⓘ
large windows ⓘ ornamental façade ⓘ vertical emphasis in design ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic landmark ⓘ |
| isPartOf | downtown Kansas City ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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surface form:
Kansas City, Missouri
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| material |
brick
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masonry ⓘ stone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | New York Life Insurance Company ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early adoption of skyscraper form
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rich exterior ornamentation ⓘ role in Kansas City’s commercial development ⓘ |
| originalClient | New York Life Insurance Company ⓘ |
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| significance |
early skyscraper in Kansas City
ⓘ
example of Cass Gilbert’s early work ⓘ |
| use | office space ⓘ |
| usedFor | insurance company offices ⓘ |
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: New York Life Insurance Building (Kansas City) Description of subject: The New York Life Insurance Building in Kansas City is a historic late-19th-century office building designed by prominent American architect Cass Gilbert, noted for its early skyscraper form and ornate architectural detailing.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
New York Life Insurance Company Building (Kansas City, Missouri)