Marine Midland Grace Building (as SOM partner)
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The Marine Midland Grace Building is a modernist office skyscraper in New York City designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft while he was a partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marine Midland Grace Building (as SOM partner) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2802998 — 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: Marine Midland Grace Building (as SOM partner) Context triple: [Gordon Bunshaft, notableWork, Marine Midland Grace Building (as SOM partner)]
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A.
Pan Am Building, New York (as co-designer)
The Pan Am Building in New York (now the MetLife Building) is a massive mid-20th-century modernist office skyscraper that became a prominent, controversial landmark over Park Avenue and Grand Central Terminal.
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B.
Lever House
Lever House is a pioneering International Style glass-and-steel office skyscraper on New York City’s Park Avenue, celebrated as one of the first curtain-wall towers in the United States.
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C.
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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D.
Greenleaf Building
The Greenleaf Building is a notable campus landmark of Shaw University, likely serving as an important academic or administrative facility associated with the institution’s historic legacy.
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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: Marine Midland Grace Building (as SOM partner) Target entity description: The Marine Midland Grace Building is a modernist office skyscraper in New York City designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft while he was a partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
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A.
Pan Am Building, New York (as co-designer)
The Pan Am Building in New York (now the MetLife Building) is a massive mid-20th-century modernist office skyscraper that became a prominent, controversial landmark over Park Avenue and Grand Central Terminal.
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B.
Lever House
Lever House is a pioneering International Style glass-and-steel office skyscraper on New York City’s Park Avenue, celebrated as one of the first curtain-wall towers in the United States.
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C.
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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D.
Greenleaf Building
The Greenleaf Building is a notable campus landmark of Shaw University, likely serving as an important academic or administrative facility associated with the institution’s historic legacy.
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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 (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial building
ⓘ
modernist building ⓘ office skyscraper ⓘ |
| architect | Gordon Bunshaft ⓘ |
| architecturalFirm | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Modernism ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| designedDuringCareerStage | Gordon Bunshaft as partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalType | high-rise building ⓘ |
| hasBuildingType | speculative office building ⓘ |
| hasDesignFeature |
curtain wall facade
ⓘ
rectilinear massing ⓘ setback-free tower ⓘ |
| hasFacadeMaterial |
glass
ⓘ
metal ⓘ |
| hasFunction | corporate offices ⓘ |
| hasPart |
elevator
ⓘ
lobby ⓘ office space ⓘ |
| hasUse | office ⓘ |
| isA | skyscraper in Manhattan ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Manhattan skyline
ⓘ
surface form:
New York City skyline
|
| isSubjectOf |
architectural criticism
ⓘ
architectural photography ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | New York ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| location | New York City ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Marine Midland Bank ⓘ |
| structuralSystem | steel frame ⓘ |
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: Marine Midland Grace Building (as SOM partner) Description of subject: The Marine Midland Grace Building is a modernist office skyscraper in New York City designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft while he was a partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.