Tent of Tomorrow
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The Tent of Tomorrow was a large, futuristic open-air pavilion structure designed by Philip Johnson for the 1964–65 New York World's Fair in Queens, notable for its massive cable-suspended roof and terrazzo floor map of New York State.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tent of Tomorrow canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10324389 — 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: Tent of Tomorrow Context triple: [New York State Pavilion, nameOfComponent, Tent of Tomorrow]
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A.
The World of Tomorrow
The World of Tomorrow was the overarching futuristic vision and slogan of the 1939 New York World's Fair, showcasing optimistic ideas about technology, design, and modern living.
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B.
Anthem for a New Tomorrow
Anthem for a New Tomorrow is a 1993 punk rock album by Screeching Weasel that is widely regarded as one of their most influential and acclaimed releases.
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C.
Tomorrow’s World
Tomorrow’s World was a long-running BBC television series that showcased new inventions and emerging technologies to a mainstream audience.
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D.
Futurians
The Futurians were an influential 1930s–1940s New York science fiction fan and writer collective whose members, including several future major authors and editors, helped shape modern science fiction fandom and literature.
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E.
A Fable for Tomorrow
"A Fable for Tomorrow" is the allegorical opening chapter of Rachel Carson’s environmental classic Silent Spring, depicting a seemingly idyllic town devastated by mysterious ecological collapse to illustrate the dangers of pesticide misuse.
- 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: Tent of Tomorrow Target entity description: The Tent of Tomorrow was a large, futuristic open-air pavilion structure designed by Philip Johnson for the 1964–65 New York World's Fair in Queens, notable for its massive cable-suspended roof and terrazzo floor map of New York State.
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A.
The World of Tomorrow
The World of Tomorrow was the overarching futuristic vision and slogan of the 1939 New York World's Fair, showcasing optimistic ideas about technology, design, and modern living.
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B.
Anthem for a New Tomorrow
Anthem for a New Tomorrow is a 1993 punk rock album by Screeching Weasel that is widely regarded as one of their most influential and acclaimed releases.
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C.
Tomorrow’s World
Tomorrow’s World was a long-running BBC television series that showcased new inventions and emerging technologies to a mainstream audience.
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D.
Futurians
The Futurians were an influential 1930s–1940s New York science fiction fan and writer collective whose members, including several future major authors and editors, helped shape modern science fiction fandom and literature.
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E.
A Fable for Tomorrow
"A Fable for Tomorrow" is the allegorical opening chapter of Rachel Carson’s environmental classic Silent Spring, depicting a seemingly idyllic town devastated by mysterious ecological collapse to illustrate the dangers of pesticide misuse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
modernist architectural work
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pavilion ⓘ |
| architect | Philip Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Modernism ⓘ |
| associatedWith | New York State Pavilion observation towers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Queens, New York
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Philip Johnson buildings ⓘ World's fair architecture ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| designer | Philip Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| event | 1964–65 New York World's Fair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
perimeter columns
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suspended roof panels ⓘ terrazzo floor map ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | preserved structure of the 1964–65 New York World's Fair ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ Queens ⓘ |
| material |
concrete
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steel ⓘ terrazzo ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
large cable-suspended roof
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terrazzo floor map of New York State ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1964 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park historic World's Fair site
NERFINISHED
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New York State Pavilion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose | pavilion for the 1964–65 New York World's Fair ⓘ |
| roofType | cable-suspended roof ⓘ |
| sponsor | State of New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme | promotion of New York State ⓘ |
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: Tent of Tomorrow Description of subject: The Tent of Tomorrow was a large, futuristic open-air pavilion structure designed by Philip Johnson for the 1964–65 New York World's Fair in Queens, notable for its massive cable-suspended roof and terrazzo floor map of New York State.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.