Standard Oil Building, New York City
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The Standard Oil Building in New York City is a historic early 20th-century skyscraper in Lower Manhattan, originally built as the headquarters of the Standard Oil Company and noted for its Beaux-Arts design by the architectural firm Carrère and Hastings.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Standard Oil Building | 2 |
| Standard Oil Building (26 Broadway, New York City) | 2 |
| Standard Oil Building, New York City canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1657547 — 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: Standard Oil Building, New York City Context triple: [Carrère and Hastings, notableWork, Standard Oil Building, New York City]
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A.
Tribune Building, New York City
The Tribune Building in New York City was a pioneering 19th-century skyscraper and former headquarters of the New York Tribune, designed in a richly ornamented style by architect Richard Morris Hunt.
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B.
Socony–Mobil Building
The Socony–Mobil Building is a prominent International Style skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, notable for its stainless-steel facade and association with the Mobil oil company.
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C.
Bank of Manhattan Trust Building
The Bank of Manhattan Trust Building, now commonly known as 40 Wall Street, is a historic neo-Gothic skyscraper in New York City's Financial District that was briefly one of the tallest buildings in the world.
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D.
CBS Building (Black Rock), New York City
The CBS Building, nicknamed "Black Rock," is a landmark Modernist skyscraper in New York City known for its dark granite facade and distinctive monolithic design.
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E.
11 Wall Street Building
The 11 Wall Street Building is the iconic neoclassical structure in New York City that serves as the headquarters and primary trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
- 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: Standard Oil Building, New York City Target entity description: The Standard Oil Building in New York City is a historic early 20th-century skyscraper in Lower Manhattan, originally built as the headquarters of the Standard Oil Company and noted for its Beaux-Arts design by the architectural firm Carrère and Hastings.
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A.
Tribune Building, New York City
The Tribune Building in New York City was a pioneering 19th-century skyscraper and former headquarters of the New York Tribune, designed in a richly ornamented style by architect Richard Morris Hunt.
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B.
Socony–Mobil Building
The Socony–Mobil Building is a prominent International Style skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, notable for its stainless-steel facade and association with the Mobil oil company.
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C.
Bank of Manhattan Trust Building
The Bank of Manhattan Trust Building, now commonly known as 40 Wall Street, is a historic neo-Gothic skyscraper in New York City's Financial District that was briefly one of the tallest buildings in the world.
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D.
CBS Building (Black Rock), New York City
The CBS Building, nicknamed "Black Rock," is a landmark Modernist skyscraper in New York City known for its dark granite facade and distinctive monolithic design.
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E.
11 Wall Street Building
The 11 Wall Street Building is the iconic neoclassical structure in New York City that serves as the headquarters and primary trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
headquarters building
ⓘ
historic building ⓘ office building ⓘ skyscraper ⓘ |
| architect |
Carrère and Hastings
ⓘ
John Merven Carrère ⓘ Thomas Hastings ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Beaux-Arts ⓘ |
| associatedCompany |
Standard Oil
ⓘ
surface form:
Standard Oil Company
|
| associatedIndustry | petroleum industry ⓘ |
| category |
Beaux-Arts architecture in New York City
ⓘ
Historic commercial buildings in New York City ⓘ Skyscraper office buildings in Manhattan ⓘ |
| city | New York City ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic skyscraper ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Lower Manhattan
ⓘ
Manhattan ⓘ New York City ⓘ New York ⓘ
surface form:
New York State
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedInNeighborhood | Financial District ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Beaux-Arts design
ⓘ
role as Standard Oil headquarters ⓘ |
| originalFunction | headquarters of Standard Oil Company ⓘ |
| originalOwner |
Standard Oil
ⓘ
surface form:
Standard Oil Company
|
| partOf |
Manhattan skyline
ⓘ
surface form:
Lower Manhattan skyline
|
| tenant |
Standard Oil
ⓘ
surface form:
Standard Oil Company
|
| use | commercial 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: Standard Oil Building, New York City Description of subject: The Standard Oil Building in New York City is a historic early 20th-century skyscraper in Lower Manhattan, originally built as the headquarters of the Standard Oil Company and noted for its Beaux-Arts design by the architectural firm Carrère and Hastings.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Standard Oil Building
this entity surface form:
Standard Oil Building (26 Broadway, New York City)
this entity surface form:
Standard Oil Building (26 Broadway, New York City)
this entity surface form:
Standard Oil Building