Pan Am Building, New York (as co-designer)
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The Pan Am Building in New York (now the MetLife Building) is a massive mid-20th-century modernist office skyscraper that became a prominent, controversial landmark over Park Avenue and Grand Central Terminal.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T586647 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Pan Am Building, New York (as co-designer) Context triple: [Walter Gropius, notableWork, Pan Am Building, New York (as co-designer)]
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Lever House
Lever House is a pioneering International Style glass-and-steel office skyscraper on New York City’s Park Avenue, celebrated as one of the first curtain-wall towers in the United States.
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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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Chrysler Building
The Chrysler Building is an iconic Art Deco skyscraper in New York City that briefly held the title of the world’s tallest building in the early 20th century.
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Tribune Building, New York City
The Tribune Building in New York City was a pioneering 19th-century skyscraper and former headquarters of the New York Tribune, designed in a richly ornamented style by architect Richard Morris Hunt.
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New York Times Building
The New York Times Building is a prominent high-rise office tower in Midtown Manhattan that serves as the headquarters of The New York Times and is noted for its modern, light-filled design.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pan Am Building, New York (as co-designer) Target entity description: The Pan Am Building in New York (now the MetLife Building) is a massive mid-20th-century modernist office skyscraper that became a prominent, controversial landmark over Park Avenue and Grand Central Terminal.
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A.
Lever House
Lever House is a pioneering International Style glass-and-steel office skyscraper on New York City’s Park Avenue, celebrated as one of the first curtain-wall towers in the United States.
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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.
Chrysler Building
The Chrysler Building is an iconic Art Deco skyscraper in New York City that briefly held the title of the world’s tallest building in the early 20th century.
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D.
Tribune Building, New York City
The Tribune Building in New York City was a pioneering 19th-century skyscraper and former headquarters of the New York Tribune, designed in a richly ornamented style by architect Richard Morris Hunt.
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E.
New York Times Building
The New York Times Building is a prominent high-rise office tower in Midtown Manhattan that serves as the headquarters of The New York Times and is noted for its modern, light-filled design.
- F. None of above. chosen
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How these facts were elicited
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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 - 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: Pan Am Building, New York (as co-designer) Description of subject: The Pan Am Building in New York (now the MetLife Building) is a massive mid-20th-century modernist office skyscraper that became a prominent, controversial landmark over Park Avenue and Grand Central Terminal.
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