Los Angeles International Airport Theme Building
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The Los Angeles International Airport Theme Building is a futuristic, space-age modernist landmark at LAX, known for its iconic flying-saucer-like design and status as a symbol of mid-20th-century Los Angeles architecture.
All labels observed (5)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1952531 — 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: Los Angeles International Airport Theme Building Context triple: [Welton Becket, notableWork, Los Angeles International Airport Theme Building]
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A.
LAX terminal complex
The LAX terminal complex is the large, multi-terminal passenger facility at Los Angeles International Airport that houses its gates, check-in areas, and passenger services.
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B.
Los Angeles City Hall
Los Angeles City Hall is the historic and iconic main municipal building of Los Angeles, housing the mayor’s office and the city council chambers.
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C.
Tower of the Americas
The Tower of the Americas is a 750-foot observation tower and restaurant in downtown San Antonio, Texas, originally built for the 1968 HemisFair and now a prominent city landmark.
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D.
One Wilshire building
The One Wilshire building is a major telecommunications hub and office skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles, renowned as one of the world’s most important internet exchange and data center facilities.
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E.
TWA Flight Center
The TWA Flight Center is an iconic mid-20th-century modernist airport terminal at New York’s JFK Airport, designed by architect Eero Saarinen and celebrated for its futuristic, winged concrete form.
- 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: Los Angeles International Airport Theme Building Target entity description: The Los Angeles International Airport Theme Building is a futuristic, space-age modernist landmark at LAX, known for its iconic flying-saucer-like design and status as a symbol of mid-20th-century Los Angeles architecture.
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A.
LAX terminal complex
The LAX terminal complex is the large, multi-terminal passenger facility at Los Angeles International Airport that houses its gates, check-in areas, and passenger services.
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B.
Los Angeles City Hall
Los Angeles City Hall is the historic and iconic main municipal building of Los Angeles, housing the mayor’s office and the city council chambers.
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C.
Tower of the Americas
The Tower of the Americas is a 750-foot observation tower and restaurant in downtown San Antonio, Texas, originally built for the 1968 HemisFair and now a prominent city landmark.
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D.
One Wilshire building
The One Wilshire building is a major telecommunications hub and office skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles, renowned as one of the world’s most important internet exchange and data center facilities.
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E.
TWA Flight Center
The TWA Flight Center is an iconic mid-20th-century modernist airport terminal at New York’s JFK Airport, designed by architect Eero Saarinen and celebrated for its futuristic, winged concrete form.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Googie architecture
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Mid-century modern architecture ⓘ building ⓘ landmark ⓘ restaurant building ⓘ |
| airportServed | Los Angeles International Airport ⓘ |
| architect |
Charles Luckman
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Paul R. Williams ⓘ Welton Becket ⓘ William Pereira ⓘ |
| category |
Googie architecture in California
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airport buildings ⓘ modernist architecture in California ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1961 ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | late 1950s ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| designationDate | 1993 ⓘ |
| feature |
elevated central restaurant pod
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flying-saucer-like design ⓘ observation deck ⓘ two intersecting parabolic arches ⓘ |
| formerTenant | Encounter Restaurant ⓘ |
| function | iconic symbol of Los Angeles International Airport ⓘ |
| hasDesignation | Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument ⓘ |
| hasObservationDeckStatus | periodically closed for security reasons ⓘ |
| height | approximately 135 feet ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Space Age aesthetics ⓘ |
| lightingFeature | colored exterior lighting at night ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| location | Los Angeles International Airport ⓘ |
| LosAngelesHistoricCulturalMonumentNumber | 570 ⓘ |
| material |
concrete
ⓘ
steel ⓘ |
| name | Theme Building ⓘ |
| notableFor | distinctive futuristic silhouette visible from airport approaches ⓘ |
| opened | 1961 ⓘ |
| partOf | central terminal area of Los Angeles International Airport ⓘ |
| renovationReason | seismic retrofitting ⓘ |
| restaurantClosed | 2014 ⓘ |
| roofColor | white ⓘ |
| structuralEngineer | Krummeck and Pratley ⓘ |
| style |
Googie
ⓘ
Mid-century modern ⓘ Space Age modernism ⓘ |
| symbolOf |
Space Age design
ⓘ
mid-20th-century Los Angeles architecture ⓘ |
| underwentRenovation | 2007 ⓘ |
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: Los Angeles International Airport Theme Building Description of subject: The Los Angeles International Airport Theme Building is a futuristic, space-age modernist landmark at LAX, known for its iconic flying-saucer-like design and status as a symbol of mid-20th-century Los Angeles architecture.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport
this entity surface form:
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Theme Building – as part of a team
this entity surface form:
Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport
this entity surface form:
Theme Building, LAX
this entity surface form:
Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport
this entity surface form:
LAX Theme Building
this entity surface form:
Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport