General Petroleum Building

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The General Petroleum Building is a prominent mid-20th-century Modernist office tower in Los Angeles, recognized as an important example of architect Welton Becket’s corporate commercial design.

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Label Occurrences
General Petroleum Building canonical 2

Statements (26)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Modernist building
commercial building
high-rise building
historic building
office building
architect Welton Becket
architecturalStyle Modernist
architecturalType corporate commercial building
associatedArchitect Welton Becket
category skyscraper office building in Los Angeles
city Los Angeles
continent North America
country United States of America
surface form: United States
designer Welton Becket
era mid-20th century
function corporate headquarters
heritageStatus recognized for architectural significance
locatedIn California, United States
surface form: California

Los Angeles
United States of America
surface form: United States
namedAfter General Petroleum
notableFor Modernist corporate design
role in mid-20th-century Los Angeles commercial architecture
significance important example of Welton Becket’s corporate commercial design
state California, United States
surface form: California
use office

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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.
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Subject: General Petroleum Building
Description of subject: The General Petroleum Building is a prominent mid-20th-century Modernist office tower in Los Angeles, recognized as an important example of architect Welton Becket’s corporate commercial design.

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Welton Becket notableWork General Petroleum Building
Welton Becket designed General Petroleum Building