Manhattan Municipal Building

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Beaux-Arts building New York City designated landmark government building office building skyscraper

The Manhattan Municipal Building is a landmark Beaux-Arts skyscraper in Lower Manhattan that houses numerous New York City government offices and is noted for its grand architectural design.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Manhattan Municipal Building canonical	13
Municipal Building (Manhattan)	2
New York City Municipal Building	2
Municipal Building, Manhattan	1
New York Municipal Building	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Beaux-Arts building ⓘ New York City designated landmark ⓘ government building ⓘ office building ⓘ skyscraper ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Municipal Building ⓘ
architect	McKim, Mead & White ⓘ William M. Kendall NERFINISHED ⓘ
architecturalStyle	Beaux-Arts ⓘ
architecturalType	civic building ⓘ
CivicFameHeight	approximately 25 feet ⓘ
completionDate	1914 ⓘ
coordinates	40.712°N 74.004°W ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
floorCount	40 ⓘ
function	administrative center for New York City agencies ⓘ
hasPart	Civic Fame statue ⓘ central tower ⓘ colonnade ⓘ subway entrance ⓘ triumphal arch base ⓘ
hasSculptor	Adolph A. Weinman ⓘ
height	approximately 580 feet ⓘ
heritageDesignation	U.S. National Register of Historic Places contributing property ⓘ surface form: National Register of Historic Places contributing property New York City Landmark ⓘ
houses	New York City Comptroller ⓘ surface form: New York City Comptroller’s Office New York City Department of City Planning ⓘ New York City Marriage Bureau ⓘ New York City government offices ⓘ Manhattan Borough President ⓘ surface form: Office of the Manhattan Borough President
inception	construction started 1909 ⓘ
inspired	Seven Sisters (Moscow skyscrapers) ⓘ surface form: Moscow Seven Sisters skyscrapers
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	Civic Center, Manhattan ⓘ
location	Lower Manhattan ⓘ Manhattan ⓘ New York City ⓘ
maintainedBy	New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services ⓘ
materialUsed	granite ⓘ limestone ⓘ
namedAfter	borough of Manhattan ⓘ surface form: Borough of Manhattan
openingDate	1914 ⓘ
owner	New York City ⓘ surface form: City of New York
partOf	New York City Civic Center complex ⓘ
publicTransit	Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall subway station ⓘ Chambers Street subway station ⓘ
roofFeature	Civic Fame statue ⓘ
significantFor	Beaux-Arts civic architecture ⓘ New York City municipal government ⓘ
streetAddress	1 Centre Street, New York, NY ⓘ

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: Manhattan Municipal Building
Description of subject: The Manhattan Municipal Building is a landmark Beaux-Arts skyscraper in Lower Manhattan that houses numerous New York City government offices and is noted for its grand architectural design.

Referenced by (19)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

One Police Plaza → near → Manhattan Municipal Building ⓘ

Manhattan Borough President → hasOfficeIn → Manhattan Municipal Building ⓘ

New York Municipal Building (consulting role) → roleFor → Manhattan Municipal Building ⓘ

this entity surface form: New York Municipal Building

City Hall Park → surroundedBy → Manhattan Municipal Building ⓘ

City Hall Park → hasView → Manhattan Municipal Building ⓘ

Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall → near → Manhattan Municipal Building ⓘ

this entity surface form: Municipal Building, Manhattan

Civic Center, Manhattan → contains → Manhattan Municipal Building ⓘ

Civic Center → hasLandmark → Manhattan Municipal Building ⓘ

New York county → boroughHallLocation → Manhattan Municipal Building ⓘ

subject surface form: New York County

1PP → nearLandmark → Manhattan Municipal Building ⓘ

Guastavino tile vaulting → notableExample → Manhattan Municipal Building ⓘ

this entity surface form: New York City Municipal Building

New York City Subway Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall station (4,5,6) → near → Manhattan Municipal Building ⓘ

subject surface form: Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall station (4,5,6)

this entity surface form: Municipal Building (Manhattan)

Chambers Street (BMT Nassau Street Line) → nearLandmark → Manhattan Municipal Building ⓘ

David N. Dinkins Municipal Building → formerName → Manhattan Municipal Building ⓘ

Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall subway station → adjacentTo → Manhattan Municipal Building ⓘ

Park Row → adjacentTo → Manhattan Municipal Building ⓘ

African Burial Ground and the Commons Historic District → contains → Manhattan Municipal Building ⓘ

this entity surface form: Municipal Building (Manhattan)

Civic Center neighborhood → contains → Manhattan Municipal Building ⓘ

this entity surface form: New York City Municipal Building

Centre Street → near → Manhattan Municipal Building ⓘ