Fagus Factory
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Fagus Factory is an early 20th-century German industrial building designed by Walter Gropius that is celebrated as a pioneering work of modernist architecture.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fagus Factory canonical | 4 |
| Fagus Factory in Alfeld | 2 |
| Fagus company | 2 |
| Fagus shoe last factory | 1 |
| Fagus-GreCon Greten GmbH & Co. KG | 1 |
| Fagus-Schuhfabrik | 1 |
| Fagus‑GreCon Greten GmbH & Co. KG | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T586641 — 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.
Target entity: Fagus Factory Context triple: [Walter Gropius, notableWork, Fagus Factory]
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Mittelwerk underground factory
The Mittelwerk underground factory was a secret Nazi German facility built into tunnels near Nordhausen that used forced labor to mass-produce V-2 rockets and other advanced weapons during World War II.
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B.
Ruckelshaus
Ruckelshaus is the surname of William D. Ruckelshaus, a prominent American lawyer and public official best known as the first head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a key figure in the Watergate-era "Saturday Night Massacre."
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C.
Ouvrage Simserhof
Ouvrage Simserhof is a major French fortification complex near Bitche in northeastern France, built in the 1930s as part of the Maginot Line and now preserved as a military museum.
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D.
Erla Maschinenwerk
Erla Maschinenwerk was a German aircraft manufacturing company best known for producing Messerschmitt fighter planes under license during World War II.
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E.
The Factory
The Factory was Andy Warhol’s legendary New York City studio and avant-garde hub, famous for its experimental art, film, and celebrity-filled gatherings in the 1960s and 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Fagus Factory Target entity description: Fagus Factory is an early 20th-century German industrial building designed by Walter Gropius that is celebrated as a pioneering work of modernist architecture.
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A.
Mittelwerk underground factory
The Mittelwerk underground factory was a secret Nazi German facility built into tunnels near Nordhausen that used forced labor to mass-produce V-2 rockets and other advanced weapons during World War II.
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B.
Ruckelshaus
Ruckelshaus is the surname of William D. Ruckelshaus, a prominent American lawyer and public official best known as the first head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a key figure in the Watergate-era "Saturday Night Massacre."
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C.
Ouvrage Simserhof
Ouvrage Simserhof is a major French fortification complex near Bitche in northeastern France, built in the 1930s as part of the Maginot Line and now preserved as a military museum.
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D.
Erla Maschinenwerk
Erla Maschinenwerk was a German aircraft manufacturing company best known for producing Messerschmitt fighter planes under license during World War II.
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E.
The Factory
The Factory was Andy Warhol’s legendary New York City studio and avant-garde hub, famous for its experimental art, film, and celebrity-filled gatherings in the 1960s and 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
World Heritage Site
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factory building ⓘ industrial building ⓘ modernist architecture work ⓘ |
| architect |
Adolf Meyer
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Walter Gropius ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
early modern architecture
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modernism ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Bauhaus movement
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Walter Gropius’s early career ⓘ |
| category |
20th-century architecture in Germany
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industrial heritage ⓘ |
| client |
Fagus Factory
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Fagus-Schuhfabrik
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| completionDate | 1913 ⓘ |
| constructionPeriod | 1911–1913 ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| currentUse |
industrial production
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museum ⓘ visitor center ⓘ |
| function | shoe last factory ⓘ |
| hasPart |
administration building
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coal bunkers ⓘ drying house ⓘ gatehouse ⓘ office wing ⓘ pattern warehouse ⓘ power plant ⓘ production halls ⓘ shipping department ⓘ warehouse ⓘ wood storage building ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ |
| heritageProtectionStatus | protected monument in Germany ⓘ |
| industry | shoe last manufacturing ⓘ |
| influenced | Bauhaus architecture ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alfeld
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Alfeld ⓘ
surface form:
Alfeld an der Leine
Lower Saxony ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
brick
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glass ⓘ steel ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Fagus Factory
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Fagus company
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| notableFeature |
absence of historicist ornament
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corner windows without visible supports ⓘ flat roof volumes ⓘ glass curtain walls ⓘ horizontal emphasis of façade ⓘ large continuous window bands ⓘ steel frame structure ⓘ |
| owner |
Fagus Factory
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Fagus-GreCon Greten GmbH & Co. KG
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| significance |
early example of functionalist design
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pioneering work of modernist industrial architecture ⓘ |
| startDate | 1911 ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageCriteria |
(ii)
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(iv) ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageListingYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteName |
Fagus Factory
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Fagus Factory in Alfeld
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Subject: Fagus Factory Description of subject: Fagus Factory is an early 20th-century German industrial building designed by Walter Gropius that is celebrated as a pioneering work of modernist architecture.
Referenced by (12)
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