Last Column of the World Trade Center

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The Last Column of the World Trade Center is a steel beam from the original Twin Towers that became a powerful memorial symbol after 9/11, ceremonially removed as the final piece of the Ground Zero recovery effort.

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Label Occurrences
Last Column of the World Trade Center canonical 1

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf World Trade Center artifact
memorial artifact
steel column
alsoKnownAs Last Column at Ground Zero NERFINISHED
associatedWith New York City Fire Department NERFINISHED
New York City Police Department NERFINISHED
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey NERFINISHED
recovery workers at Ground Zero
category Monuments and memorials to the September 11 attacks
World Trade Center (1973–2001) NERFINISHED
ceremonialRole focus of the closing ceremony of the Ground Zero recovery
context remains of the World Trade Center towers
country United States of America
surface form: United States
currentUse museum exhibit
decoratedWith American flag
hard hats
photographs
eventAssociatedWith September 11 attacks NERFINISHED
World Trade Center site recovery NERFINISHED
exhibitedAt 9/11 Memorial Museum underground exhibition space NERFINISHED
function historical artifact of the World Trade Center collapse
memorial to victims and responders of 9/11
hasColor rusted brown
hasInscription insignia of recovery agencies
messages from recovery workers
names of victims
hasName Last Column NERFINISHED
locatedIn National September 11 Memorial & Museum NERFINISHED
World Trade Center site NERFINISHED
material steel
orientation vertical
partOf World Trade Center South Tower NERFINISHED
original World Trade Center NERFINISHED
preservedAs permanent memorial
removalType ceremonial removal
removedAs final structural column taken from Ground Zero
removedBy recovery workers
removedFrom Ground Zero NERFINISHED
significance symbol of remembrance for the September 11 attacks
symbol of the end of the Ground Zero recovery effort
symbolizes closure of the recovery phase at Ground Zero
honor for those who died and those who served
resilience of New York City
transportedTo 9/11 Memorial Museum NERFINISHED

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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: Last Column of the World Trade Center
Description of subject: The Last Column of the World Trade Center is a steel beam from the original Twin Towers that became a powerful memorial symbol after 9/11, ceremonially removed as the final piece of the Ground Zero recovery effort.

Referenced by (1)

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Last Column alsoKnownAs Last Column of the World Trade Center