Kavanagh Building
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The Kavanagh Building is a landmark Art Deco skyscraper in Buenos Aires, renowned for its pioneering modernist design and status as one of the city's most iconic residential towers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edificio Kavanagh | 1 |
| Kavanagh Building canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9022680 — 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: Kavanagh Building Context triple: [Retiro, hasLandmark, Kavanagh Building]
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A.
Paul O’Gorman Building
The Paul O’Gorman Building is a major University College London facility that houses the UCL Cancer Institute and supports advanced research into cancer biology, diagnosis, and treatment.
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B.
Ferrier Building
The Ferrier Building is an academic facility located on the downtown Montreal campus of a major university, housing classrooms, offices, and related educational spaces.
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C.
Wellington Building
The Wellington Building is a historic federal government office building in Ottawa, Canada, located near Parliament Hill and used primarily for parliamentary and administrative functions.
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D.
Darwin Building
The Darwin Building is a key academic and research facility located within the King’s Buildings science and engineering campus of the University of Edinburgh.
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E.
Cripps Building
Cripps Building is a large modern accommodation and teaching complex at St John’s College, Cambridge, known for its distinctive 1960s architecture and extensive student facilities.
- 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: Kavanagh Building Target entity description: The Kavanagh Building is a landmark Art Deco skyscraper in Buenos Aires, renowned for its pioneering modernist design and status as one of the city's most iconic residential towers.
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A.
Paul O’Gorman Building
The Paul O’Gorman Building is a major University College London facility that houses the UCL Cancer Institute and supports advanced research into cancer biology, diagnosis, and treatment.
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B.
Ferrier Building
The Ferrier Building is an academic facility located on the downtown Montreal campus of a major university, housing classrooms, offices, and related educational spaces.
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C.
Wellington Building
The Wellington Building is a historic federal government office building in Ottawa, Canada, located near Parliament Hill and used primarily for parliamentary and administrative functions.
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D.
Darwin Building
The Darwin Building is a key academic and research facility located within the King’s Buildings science and engineering campus of the University of Edinburgh.
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E.
Cripps Building
Cripps Building is a large modern accommodation and teaching complex at St John’s College, Cambridge, known for its distinctive 1960s architecture and extensive student facilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
landmark
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skyscraper ⓘ |
| architect |
Ernesto Lagos
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gregorio Sánchez NERFINISHED ⓘ Luis María de la Torre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Art Deco
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Modernism ⓘ |
| buildingType | luxury residential tower ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1936 ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1934 ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country | Argentina ⓘ |
| developer | Corina Kavanagh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalFeature |
central tower with wings
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large picture windows ⓘ minimal ornamentation ⓘ setback tower form ⓘ streamlined façade ⓘ |
| hasUse |
ground-floor commercial spaces
ⓘ
residential apartments ⓘ |
| hasViewOf |
Retiro railway station area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Río de la Plata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| height |
120 m
ⓘ
approximately 394 ft ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | National Historic Monument of Argentina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationDate | 1999 ⓘ |
| inception | 1936 ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Autonomous City of Buenos Aires
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Retiro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location | Buenos Aires NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| materialUsed | reinforced concrete ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Corina Kavanagh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
iconic silhouette on the Buenos Aires skyline
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integration of Art Deco and functionalist elements ⓘ pioneering modernist residential design in Argentina ⓘ |
| numberOfFloors | 33 ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1936 ⓘ |
| overlooks | Plaza San Martín NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | architectural heritage of Buenos Aires ⓘ |
| recordHeld | tallest reinforced concrete building in the world ⓘ |
| recordHeldEnd | late 1930s ⓘ |
| recordHeldStart | 1936 ⓘ |
| status | standing ⓘ |
| streetAddress | Florida 1065 ⓘ |
| structuralEngineer | Sánchez, Lagos y de la Torre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasTallestBuildingIn |
Buenos Aires
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Latin America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Kavanagh Building Description of subject: The Kavanagh Building is a landmark Art Deco skyscraper in Buenos Aires, renowned for its pioneering modernist design and status as one of the city's most iconic residential towers.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Edificio Kavanagh