Unité d’Habitation de Firminy
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Unité d’Habitation de Firminy is a major modernist residential housing block in Firminy, France, designed by architect Le Corbusier as part of his influential series of “vertical garden city” buildings.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Firminy-Vert urban project | 1 |
| Unité d’Habitation de Firminy canonical | 1 |
| Unité d’Habitation de Firminy-Vert | 1 |
| Unité d’Habitation of Firminy-Vert | 1 |
| Unité d’Habitation series | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3762344 — 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: Unité d’Habitation de Firminy Context triple: [Maison de la Culture de Firminy, locatedNear, Unité d’Habitation de Firminy]
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Unité d’Habitation, Marseille
Unité d’Habitation, Marseille is a pioneering mid-20th-century modernist residential housing block by Le Corbusier that exemplifies his vision of high-density, communal urban living.
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B.
Habitat 67
Habitat 67 is a landmark modular housing complex in Montreal, Canada, renowned for its innovative, stacked-cube architectural design by Moshe Safdie.
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C.
Villa Savoye
Villa Savoye is a seminal modernist house in Poissy, France, celebrated as one of Le Corbusier’s most influential architectural masterpieces and a key icon of the International Style.
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D.
Fondation Le Corbusier
Fondation Le Corbusier is a Paris-based organization dedicated to preserving, studying, and promoting the architectural and artistic legacy of the modernist architect Le Corbusier.
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E.
Villa La Californie
Villa La Californie is a historic hillside mansion in Cannes, France, best known as Pablo Picasso’s residence and studio during the 1950s.
- 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: Unité d’Habitation de Firminy Target entity description: Unité d’Habitation de Firminy is a major modernist residential housing block in Firminy, France, designed by architect Le Corbusier as part of his influential series of “vertical garden city” buildings.
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A.
Unité d’Habitation, Marseille
Unité d’Habitation, Marseille is a pioneering mid-20th-century modernist residential housing block by Le Corbusier that exemplifies his vision of high-density, communal urban living.
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B.
Habitat 67
Habitat 67 is a landmark modular housing complex in Montreal, Canada, renowned for its innovative, stacked-cube architectural design by Moshe Safdie.
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C.
Villa Savoye
Villa Savoye is a seminal modernist house in Poissy, France, celebrated as one of Le Corbusier’s most influential architectural masterpieces and a key icon of the International Style.
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D.
Fondation Le Corbusier
Fondation Le Corbusier is a Paris-based organization dedicated to preserving, studying, and promoting the architectural and artistic legacy of the modernist architect Le Corbusier.
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E.
Villa La Californie
Villa La Californie is a historic hillside mansion in Cannes, France, best known as Pablo Picasso’s residence and studio during the 1950s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Unité d’Habitation
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modernist architecture ⓘ residential building ⓘ |
| architect | Le Corbusier ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Brutalism
ⓘ
Modernism ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Firminy
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surface form:
Firminy-Vert urban project
Le Corbusier’s post-war housing experiments ⓘ |
| category |
collective housing
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social housing ⓘ |
| concept | vertical garden city ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| designedAs | self-contained vertical neighborhood ⓘ |
| hasAmenity |
communal roof facilities
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shops or services within the block ⓘ |
| hasCirculation | internal corridors called streets ⓘ |
| hasContext | post-World War II reconstruction and housing shortage ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
color-coded façades
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double-height units ⓘ roof-level communal space ⓘ standardized apartment modules ⓘ sun-breakers ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
collective facilities
ⓘ
housing ⓘ |
| hasPart |
communal services
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dwelling units ⓘ internal streets ⓘ pilotis ⓘ roof terrace ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | recognized example of 20th-century modern architecture ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Le Modulor
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surface form:
Le Corbusier’s Modulor system
|
| inspiredBy |
Unité d’Habitation, Marseille
ⓘ
surface form:
Unité d’Habitation de Marseille
|
| locatedIn |
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region
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surface form:
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Europe ⓘ Firminy NERFINISHED ⓘ Loire department ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Saint-Étienne ⓘ |
| material | reinforced concrete ⓘ |
| movement | Modern movement in architecture ⓘ |
| notableFor |
application of Unité d’Habitation model outside Marseille
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integration into a planned modernist neighborhood ⓘ |
| partOf | Firminy-Vert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose |
high-density housing
ⓘ
integration of living, leisure and services ⓘ |
| series |
Unité d’Habitation de Firminy
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Unité d’Habitation series
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| uses | béton brut ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Unité d’Habitation de Firminy Description of subject: Unité d’Habitation de Firminy is a major modernist residential housing block in Firminy, France, designed by architect Le Corbusier as part of his influential series of “vertical garden city” buildings.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Unité d’Habitation of Firminy-Vert
this entity surface form:
Unité d’Habitation series
this entity surface form:
Unité d’Habitation de Firminy-Vert
this entity surface form:
Firminy-Vert urban project