Singer Building
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The Singer Building was a historic early skyscraper in New York City, once among the tallest buildings in the world before its demolition in the late 1960s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Singer Building canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7823082 — 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: Singer Building Context triple: [One Liberty Plaza, formerSiteOf, Singer Building]
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A.
Astor Place Tower, New York
Astor Place Tower in New York is a distinctive modern residential high-rise known for its curving glass façade and prominent presence in Manhattan’s East Village skyline.
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B.
RCA Building
The RCA Building, now known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza or 30 Rock, is a landmark Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan that serves as the centerpiece of New York City's Rockefeller Center complex.
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C.
Bank of Manhattan Trust Building
The Bank of Manhattan Trust Building, now commonly known as 40 Wall Street, is a historic neo-Gothic skyscraper in New York City's Financial District that was briefly one of the tallest buildings in the world.
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D.
Woolworth Building
The Woolworth Building is a historic neo-Gothic skyscraper in Lower Manhattan, New York City, once the world's tallest building and a landmark of early 20th-century architecture.
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E.
New York Sun Building
The New York Sun Building was a prominent historic newspaper office skyscraper in Manhattan that housed the influential New York Sun during the height of New York City’s print journalism era.
- 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: Singer Building Target entity description: The Singer Building was a historic early skyscraper in New York City, once among the tallest buildings in the world before its demolition in the late 1960s.
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A.
Astor Place Tower, New York
Astor Place Tower in New York is a distinctive modern residential high-rise known for its curving glass façade and prominent presence in Manhattan’s East Village skyline.
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B.
RCA Building
The RCA Building, now known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza or 30 Rock, is a landmark Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan that serves as the centerpiece of New York City's Rockefeller Center complex.
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C.
Bank of Manhattan Trust Building
The Bank of Manhattan Trust Building, now commonly known as 40 Wall Street, is a historic neo-Gothic skyscraper in New York City's Financial District that was briefly one of the tallest buildings in the world.
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D.
Woolworth Building
The Woolworth Building is a historic neo-Gothic skyscraper in Lower Manhattan, New York City, once the world's tallest building and a landmark of early 20th-century architecture.
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E.
New York Sun Building
The New York Sun Building was a prominent historic newspaper office skyscraper in Manhattan that housed the influential New York Sun during the height of New York City’s print journalism era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | skyscraper ⓘ |
| architect | Ernest Flagg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Beaux-Arts
ⓘ
early skyscraper ⓘ |
| borough | Manhattan ⓘ |
| city | New York City ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1908 ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1906 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| demolishedFor | construction of One Liberty Plaza ⓘ |
| demolitionDate | 1968 ⓘ |
| demolitionPeriod | 1967–1968 ⓘ |
| developer | Singer Manufacturing Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| floorCount | 47 ⓘ |
| function |
corporate headquarters
ⓘ
office use ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
narrow tower rising from a broader base
ⓘ
ornate copper-clad dome ⓘ setback tower design ⓘ |
| height |
187 m
ⓘ
612 ft ⓘ |
| heldTitle | world’s tallest building ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Lower Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ New York State NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedNear |
Trinity Church
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wall Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Broadway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material |
masonry cladding
ⓘ
steel frame ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Singer Manufacturing Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| neighborhood | Financial District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the tallest building ever demolished at the time
ⓘ
early use of steel-frame skyscraper construction ⓘ its distinctive slender tower and dome ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1908 ⓘ |
| owner | Singer Manufacturing Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedBy | One Liberty Plaza NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roofHeight | 187 m ⓘ |
| status | demolished ⓘ |
| streetAddress |
149 Broadway
ⓘ
Broadway and Liberty Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| surpassedBy | Metropolitan Life Tower NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleEndDate | 1909 ⓘ |
| titleStartDate | 1908 ⓘ |
| wasAmongTallestBuildings | true ⓘ |
| wasWorldsTallestBuilding | true ⓘ |
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: Singer Building Description of subject: The Singer Building was a historic early skyscraper in New York City, once among the tallest buildings in the world before its demolition in the late 1960s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.