Berlaymont building

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European Commission headquarters headquarters building office building

The Berlaymont building is the iconic cruciform headquarters of the European Commission located in Brussels, Belgium.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Berlaymont building canonical	25
Berlaymont building (European Commission headquarters)	2
Berlaymont	1
Berlaymont building, Brussels	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	European Commission headquarters ⓘ headquarters building ⓘ office building ⓘ
architect	Michel Andrault ⓘ surface form: André Polak Jean Gilson ⓘ Jean Polak ⓘ Lucien De Vestel ⓘ
architecturalStyle	Modernist architecture ⓘ
city	Brussels, Belgium ⓘ surface form: City of Brussels
constructionStartDate	1963 ⓘ
coordinates	50.8425°N 4.3814°E ⓘ
country	Belgium ⓘ
floorCount	13 ⓘ
function	administrative headquarters ⓘ
hasBasementLevels	5 ⓘ
hasFacility	conference rooms ⓘ meeting rooms ⓘ press room of the European Commission ⓘ underground parking ⓘ
hasFeature	central core with four wings ⓘ glass facade ⓘ internal courtyards ⓘ solar shading louvers ⓘ
hasTenant	European Commission ⓘ
height	approximately 57 metres ⓘ
houses	offices of the European Commissioners ⓘ offices of the President of the European Commission ⓘ
inaugurationDate	1969 ⓘ
locatedIn	European Quarter of Brussels ⓘ Rue de la Loi ⓘ Wetstraat ⓘ
location	Brussels, Belgium ⓘ surface form: Brussels
majorRenovationEnd	2004 ⓘ
majorRenovationStart	1991 ⓘ
management	Belgian Buildings Agency ⓘ
namedAfter	Ladies of Berlaymont ⓘ
near	Europa building ⓘ Justus Lipsius building ⓘ Schuman metro station ⓘ Schuman roundabout ⓘ
notableFor	being the main seat of the European Commission ⓘ its cruciform ground plan ⓘ its role as a symbol of the European Union ⓘ
occupant	European Commission ⓘ
owner	Belgium ⓘ surface form: Belgian state
partOf	European institutions ⓘ surface form: European Union institutions district
region	Brussels-Capital Region ⓘ
reopened	2004 ⓘ
shape	cruciform ⓘ

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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
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Input

Subject: Berlaymont building
Description of subject: The Berlaymont building is the iconic cruciform headquarters of the European Commission located in Brussels, Belgium.

Referenced by (29)

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

European Commission → hasOffice → Berlaymont building ⓘ

Council of the European Union Justus Lipsius building → locatedNear → Berlaymont building ⓘ

European Quarter of Brussels → contains → Berlaymont building ⓘ

European Quarter of Brussels → hasLandmark → Berlaymont building ⓘ

Rue de la Loi / Wetstraat, Brussels → hasBuilding → Berlaymont building ⓘ

subject surface form: Rue de la Loi / Wetstraat

President of the European Commission → residence → Berlaymont building ⓘ

this entity surface form: Berlaymont building, Brussels

European Quarter → contains → Berlaymont building ⓘ

Brussels-Schuman railway station → locatedNear → Berlaymont building ⓘ

Schuman roundabout → surroundedBy → Berlaymont building ⓘ

Schuman roundabout → hasNearbyBuilding → Berlaymont building ⓘ

Rue de la Loi → hasBuilding → Berlaymont building ⓘ

European Commission headquarters → hasPart → Berlaymont building ⓘ

Arts-Loi metro station → locatedNear → Berlaymont building ⓘ

Maelbeek metro station → locatedNear → Berlaymont building ⓘ

Wetstraat → hasBuilding → Berlaymont building ⓘ

College of Commissioners → worksIn → Berlaymont building ⓘ

DG COMP → locatedIn → Berlaymont building ⓘ

DG Energy → locatedIn → Berlaymont building ⓘ

this entity surface form: Berlaymont building (European Commission headquarters)

Jean Gilson → notableWork → Berlaymont building ⓘ

Directorate Z – Institutional & Budgetary Law → locatedIn → Berlaymont building ⓘ

this entity surface form: Berlaymont building (European Commission headquarters)

Jean Polak → notableWork → Berlaymont building ⓘ

Jean Polak → coDesignerOf → Berlaymont building ⓘ

Lucien De Vestel → notableWork → Berlaymont building ⓘ

this entity surface form: Berlaymont

Lucien De Vestel → designed → Berlaymont building ⓘ

European Commission led by Ursula von der Leyen → headquartersBuilding → Berlaymont building ⓘ

First Vice-President of the European Commission → seat → Berlaymont building ⓘ

Rue Froissart / Froissartstraat → near → Berlaymont building ⓘ

Schumanplein → near → Berlaymont building ⓘ