Pan Am Building
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The Pan Am Building, now known as the MetLife Building, is a prominent mid-20th-century modernist skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan that became an iconic part of New York City's skyline.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pan Am Building canonical | 4 |
| Union Carbide Building | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2469591 — 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: Pan Am Building Context triple: [Emery Roth & Sons, notableProject, Pan Am Building]
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Seagram Building
The Seagram Building is a landmark modernist skyscraper in New York City, renowned for its minimalist bronze-and-glass design and profound influence on corporate architecture.
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CBS Building
The CBS Building is a modernist skyscraper in New York City, renowned for its minimalist granite façade and status as the iconic headquarters of the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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C.
AT&T Building
The AT&T Building is a landmark postmodern skyscraper in New York City, renowned for its Chippendale-style broken pediment top and its influential role in 1980s architectural design.
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D.
RCA Building
The RCA Building, now known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza or 30 Rock, is a landmark Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan that serves as the centerpiece of New York City's Rockefeller Center complex.
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E.
Citigroup Centre
Citigroup Centre is a major office complex in London’s Canary Wharf financial district that serves as a key European hub for Citigroup.
- 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: Pan Am Building Target entity description: The Pan Am Building, now known as the MetLife Building, is a prominent mid-20th-century modernist skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan that became an iconic part of New York City's skyline.
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A.
Seagram Building
The Seagram Building is a landmark modernist skyscraper in New York City, renowned for its minimalist bronze-and-glass design and profound influence on corporate architecture.
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B.
CBS Building
The CBS Building is a modernist skyscraper in New York City, renowned for its minimalist granite façade and status as the iconic headquarters of the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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C.
AT&T Building
The AT&T Building is a landmark postmodern skyscraper in New York City, renowned for its Chippendale-style broken pediment top and its influential role in 1980s architectural design.
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D.
RCA Building
The RCA Building, now known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza or 30 Rock, is a landmark Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan that serves as the centerpiece of New York City's Rockefeller Center complex.
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E.
Citigroup Centre
Citigroup Centre is a major office complex in London’s Canary Wharf financial district that serves as a key European hub for Citigroup.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Pan Am Building Description of subject: The Pan Am Building, now known as the MetLife Building, is a prominent mid-20th-century modernist skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan that became an iconic part of New York City's skyline.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Pan Am Building
this entity surface form:
Union Carbide Building