Tower 42
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Tower 42 is a prominent modernist skyscraper in the City of London, formerly known as the NatWest Tower and once the tallest building in the United Kingdom.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tower 42 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9862405 — 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: Tower 42 Context triple: [Old Broad Street, hasBuilding, Tower 42]
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A.
Tower 2000
Tower 2000 is a high-rise office and business complex that forms part of Moscow’s modern Moscow International Business Center skyline.
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B.
Tower Forty-seven
Tower Forty-seven is one of the defensive towers incorporated into the historic medieval York city walls in York, England.
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C.
Tower Forty
Tower Forty is one of the numbered defensive towers incorporated into the historic medieval city walls of York, England.
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D.
Infinity Tower
Infinity Tower, now known as Cayan Tower, is a distinctive 75-story residential skyscraper in Dubai famous for its 90-degree twisting design.
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E.
Torre
Torre is a neighborhood in the Brazilian city of Recife, known for its residential character and urban amenities.
- 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: Tower 42 Target entity description: Tower 42 is a prominent modernist skyscraper in the City of London, formerly known as the NatWest Tower and once the tallest building in the United Kingdom.
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A.
Tower 2000
Tower 2000 is a high-rise office and business complex that forms part of Moscow’s modern Moscow International Business Center skyline.
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B.
Tower Forty-seven
Tower Forty-seven is one of the defensive towers incorporated into the historic medieval York city walls in York, England.
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C.
Tower Forty
Tower Forty is one of the numbered defensive towers incorporated into the historic medieval city walls of York, England.
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D.
Infinity Tower
Infinity Tower, now known as Cayan Tower, is a distinctive 75-story residential skyscraper in Dubai famous for its 90-degree twisting design.
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E.
Torre
Torre is a neighborhood in the Brazilian city of Recife, known for its residential character and urban amenities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | skyscraper ⓘ |
| architect | Richard Seifert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalFirm | R. Seifert and Partners NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Modernism ⓘ |
| bombDamageYear | 1993 ⓘ |
| bombingPerpetrator | Provisional Irish Republican Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| buildingType | commercial ⓘ |
| claddingMaterial |
aluminium
ⓘ
glass ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | National Westminster Bank NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructionStartYear | 1971 ⓘ |
| coordinates | 51.515°N 0.085°W ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| developer | National Westminster Bank NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevatorCount | 21 ⓘ |
| floorArea | ~43000 m² ⓘ |
| floorCount | 47 ⓘ |
| formerName | NatWest Tower NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHelipad | no ⓘ |
| hasLightingScheme | yes ⓘ |
| hasObservationFacility | yes ⓘ |
| hasRestaurant | yes ⓘ |
| hasSecurityIncident | yes ⓘ |
| hasSkylineSignificance | yes ⓘ |
| height |
183 m
ⓘ
600 ft ⓘ |
| isLandmarkOf | City of London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInFinancialDistrict | yes ⓘ |
| location |
City of London
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
England ⓘ London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| namedAfter | its street number ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1981 ⓘ |
| owner | Kirsh Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalAddress | 25 Old Broad Street, London ⓘ |
| primaryUse | office ⓘ |
| roofShape | stepped ⓘ |
| status | completed ⓘ |
| structuralSystem | steel frame ⓘ |
| sufferedBombDamage | yes ⓘ |
| surpassedBy | One Canada Square NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasTallestBuildingFrom | 1980 ⓘ |
| wasTallestBuildingIn | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasTallestBuildingUntil | 1990 ⓘ |
| yearCompleted | 1980 ⓘ |
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: Tower 42 Description of subject: Tower 42 is a prominent modernist skyscraper in the City of London, formerly known as the NatWest Tower and once the tallest building in the United Kingdom.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.