Olympia and York

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defunct company real estate development company

Olympia and York was a major Canadian real estate development firm best known for building large-scale office complexes such as Toronto’s First Canadian Place and London’s Canary Wharf.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Olympia and York canonical	5

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	defunct company ⓘ real estate development company ⓘ
activeInCity	London, England ⓘ surface form: London New York City ⓘ Toronto ⓘ
activeInCountry	Canada ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
basedInMetropolitanArea	Greater Toronto Area ⓘ
country	Canada ⓘ
developerOf	Bay Adelaide Centre (original project) ⓘ Canary Wharf ⓘ Exchange Tower (Toronto) ⓘ First Canadian Place ⓘ Royal Bank Plaza ⓘ World Financial Center ⓘ
fate	bankruptcy ⓘ
foundedBy	Albert Reichmann NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Reichmann NERFINISHED ⓘ Ralph Reichmann ⓘ Reichmann family ⓘ
headquartersLocation	Canada ⓘ Ontario ⓘ Toronto ⓘ
industry	property development ⓘ real estate ⓘ
knownFor	Canary Wharf ⓘ surface form: Canary Wharf development in London Docklands downtown megaprojects ⓘ large-scale office complexes ⓘ major Toronto office towers ⓘ
notableProjectLocation	London Docklands ⓘ Lower Manhattan ⓘ Downtown Toronto ⓘ surface form: Toronto financial district
notableWork	Bay Adelaide Centre (original project) ⓘ Canary Wharf ⓘ Exchange Tower (Toronto) ⓘ First Canadian Place ⓘ Royal Bank Plaza ⓘ World Financial Center ⓘ
operatedInSector	commercial real estate ⓘ mixed-use developments ⓘ office property ⓘ
ownedBy	Reichmann family ⓘ
peakStatus	major global office landlord ⓘ one of the largest real estate developers in the world ⓘ
reasonForDecline	financial difficulties related to Canary Wharf ⓘ high debt load ⓘ real estate market downturn ⓘ
significantEvent	filed for bankruptcy protection in the early 1990s ⓘ

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: Olympia and York
Description of subject: Olympia and York was a major Canadian real estate development firm best known for building large-scale office complexes such as Toronto’s First Canadian Place and London’s Canary Wharf.

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bay Wellington Tower → developer → Olympia and York ⓘ

Allen Lambert Galleria → developer → Olympia and York ⓘ

World Financial Center → developedBy → Olympia and York ⓘ

One Canada Square → developer → Olympia and York ⓘ

First Canadian Place → developer → Olympia and York ⓘ