Time & Life Building

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commercial building modernist building office building skyscraper

The Time & Life Building is a prominent modernist skyscraper in New York City's Rockefeller Center that historically housed the headquarters of Time Inc. and its magazines.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Time & Life Building canonical	1
Time-Life Building	1

Statements (40)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	commercial building ⓘ modernist building ⓘ office building ⓘ skyscraper ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	1271 Avenue of the Americas ⓘ 1271 Sixth Avenue ⓘ
architecturalStyle	International Style ⓘ Modernism ⓘ
avenue	Sixth Avenue NERFINISHED ⓘ
borough	Manhattan ⓘ
category	Headquarters of media companies in the United States ⓘ Modernist architecture in New York City ⓘ Rockefeller Center ⓘ surface form: Rockefeller Center buildings Skyscraper office buildings in Manhattan ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
developer	Rockefeller Center ⓘ surface form: Rockefeller Center Inc.
formerHeadquartersOf	Time Inc. ⓘ
formerTenant	Fortune magazine ⓘ Life magazine ⓘ Sports Illustrated ⓘ Time Inc. ⓘ Time magazine ⓘ
hasFeature	ground-floor retail space ⓘ lobby murals ⓘ plaza ⓘ setback tower ⓘ
locatedIn	Manhattan ⓘ New York City ⓘ New York State ⓘ Rockefeller Center ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
locatedOn	Avenue of the Americas ⓘ
neighborhood	Midtown Manhattan ⓘ
notableFor	association with Time Inc. magazines ⓘ modernist curtain wall facade ⓘ
owner	Tishman Speyer ⓘ
partOf	Sixth Avenue corridor ⓘ surface form: Sixth Avenue skyscraper corridor
streetAddress	1271 Avenue of the Americas ⓘ
use	office ⓘ retail ⓘ

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: Time & Life Building
Description of subject: The Time & Life Building is a prominent modernist skyscraper in New York City's Rockefeller Center that historically housed the headquarters of Time Inc. and its magazines.

Referenced by (2)

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

Time-Life Building at Rockefeller Center → alsoKnownAs → Time & Life Building ⓘ

1271 Avenue of the Americas → formerName → Time & Life Building ⓘ

this entity surface form: Time-Life Building