The Onion
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The Onion is a distinctive, modernist London building known for its layered, bulb-like architectural design that resembles the shape of an onion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Onion canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2296653 — 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: The Onion Context triple: [City Hall (London), nickname, The Onion]
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A.
The Harvard Lampoon
The Harvard Lampoon is a long-running, student-run humor magazine at Harvard University known for its satirical writing and influential comedic alumni.
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B.
Mad magazine
Mad magazine is a long-running American humor and satire publication known for its parodies of popular culture, politics, and entertainment.
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C.
Gawker Media
Gawker Media was a now-defunct American online media company known for its network of influential blogs covering gossip, technology, feminism, and pop culture.
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D.
Funny or Die
Funny or Die is a comedy video website and production company known for its celebrity-driven sketches and viral online content.
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E.
Tom Toles
Tom Toles is an American political cartoonist renowned for his sharp, progressive commentary and distinctive minimalist style, long featured in major newspapers such as The Washington Post.
- 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: The Onion Target entity description: The Onion is a distinctive, modernist London building known for its layered, bulb-like architectural design that resembles the shape of an onion.
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A.
The Harvard Lampoon
The Harvard Lampoon is a long-running, student-run humor magazine at Harvard University known for its satirical writing and influential comedic alumni.
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B.
Mad magazine
Mad magazine is a long-running American humor and satire publication known for its parodies of popular culture, politics, and entertainment.
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C.
Gawker Media
Gawker Media was a now-defunct American online media company known for its network of influential blogs covering gossip, technology, feminism, and pop culture.
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D.
Funny or Die
Funny or Die is a comedy video website and production company known for its celebrity-driven sketches and viral online content.
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E.
Tom Toles
Tom Toles is an American political cartoonist renowned for his sharp, progressive commentary and distinctive minimalist style, long featured in major newspapers such as The Washington Post.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building
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modernist building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Modernism ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalForm |
bulb-like form
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layered form ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
British Summer Time
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Greenwich Mean Time ⓘ |
| location |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| notableFor |
distinctive layered, bulb-like design
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resemblance to an onion ⓘ |
| shapeResembles | onion ⓘ |
| usedAs | architectural landmark ⓘ |
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: The Onion Description of subject: The Onion is a distinctive, modernist London building known for its layered, bulb-like architectural design that resembles the shape of an onion.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.