Metropolitan Water District Building (Los Angeles)
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The Metropolitan Water District Building in Los Angeles is a modernist office complex notable for its sleek, futuristic design by the influential mid-20th-century architecture firm William L. Pereira & Associates.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Metropolitan Water District Building (Los Angeles) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9656246 — 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: Metropolitan Water District Building (Los Angeles) Context triple: [William L. Pereira & Associates, designed, Metropolitan Water District Building (Los Angeles)]
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A.
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Building
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Building is a prominent Modernist high-rise office tower in downtown Los Angeles, known for its distinctive glass-and-concrete design and reflecting pools.
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B.
Southern California Edison Company Building (Los Angeles)
The Southern California Edison Company Building in Los Angeles is a historic early-20th-century office building known for its distinctive architecture and association with the growth of the region’s electric power industry.
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C.
Los Angeles County Hall of Administration
The Los Angeles County Hall of Administration is a major government building in downtown Los Angeles that houses the offices and meeting chambers of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and key county administrative departments.
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D.
Los Angeles Board of Education Building
The Los Angeles Board of Education Building is a historic civic structure in Los Angeles designed by prominent architect John C. Austin, known for its role in housing the city's educational administration.
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E.
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Building
The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Building is a historic early 20th-century commercial landmark in downtown Los Angeles, designed in a Beaux-Arts/Neoclassical style that reflects the city’s growth as a major economic center.
- 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: Metropolitan Water District Building (Los Angeles) Target entity description: The Metropolitan Water District Building in Los Angeles is a modernist office complex notable for its sleek, futuristic design by the influential mid-20th-century architecture firm William L. Pereira & Associates.
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A.
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Building
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Building is a prominent Modernist high-rise office tower in downtown Los Angeles, known for its distinctive glass-and-concrete design and reflecting pools.
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B.
Southern California Edison Company Building (Los Angeles)
The Southern California Edison Company Building in Los Angeles is a historic early-20th-century office building known for its distinctive architecture and association with the growth of the region’s electric power industry.
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C.
Los Angeles County Hall of Administration
The Los Angeles County Hall of Administration is a major government building in downtown Los Angeles that houses the offices and meeting chambers of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and key county administrative departments.
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D.
Los Angeles Board of Education Building
The Los Angeles Board of Education Building is a historic civic structure in Los Angeles designed by prominent architect John C. Austin, known for its role in housing the city's educational administration.
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E.
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Building
The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Building is a historic early 20th-century commercial landmark in downtown Los Angeles, designed in a Beaux-Arts/Neoclassical style that reflects the city’s growth as a major economic center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (22)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | office building ⓘ |
| architect | William L. Pereira NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Futurist-influenced modernism
ⓘ
Modernism ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Los Angeles
ⓘ
Modernist architecture in California ⓘ Office buildings in California ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| designedBy | William L. Pereira & Associates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| function | office headquarters ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalFirm | William L. Pereira & Associates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| notableFor |
futuristic appearance
ⓘ
mid-20th-century modernist architecture ⓘ sleek design ⓘ |
| originalClient | Metropolitan Water District of Southern California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Metropolitan Water District of Southern California facilities NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
administrative offices
ⓘ
corporate offices ⓘ |
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: Metropolitan Water District Building (Los Angeles) Description of subject: The Metropolitan Water District Building in Los Angeles is a modernist office complex notable for its sleek, futuristic design by the influential mid-20th-century architecture firm William L. Pereira & Associates.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.