Blue Tower, New York City
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Blue Tower in New York City is a striking, pixelated glass residential high-rise on the Lower East Side designed by architect Bernard Tschumi.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Blue Tower, New York City canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10298476 — 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: Blue Tower, New York City Context triple: [Bernard Tschumi, notableWork, Blue Tower, New York City]
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CBS Building (Black Rock), New York City
The CBS Building, nicknamed "Black Rock," is a landmark Modernist skyscraper in New York City known for its dark granite facade and distinctive monolithic design.
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B.
Eiffel Tower of Brooklyn
The Eiffel Tower of Brooklyn is the Parachute Jump, a historic Coney Island amusement ride tower and landmark known for its distinctive skeletal steel structure.
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C.
Astor Place Tower, New York
Astor Place Tower in New York is a distinctive modern residential high-rise known for its curving glass façade and prominent presence in Manhattan’s East Village skyline.
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D.
Water Tower
The Water Tower in Vinnytsia is a historic brick tower and prominent city symbol, originally built as a water supply structure and now serving as an architectural landmark and observation point.
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E.
Water Tower
Water Tower is a 1998 translucent resin sculpture by British artist Rachel Whiteread, cast from a New York rooftop water tank and celebrated as a landmark example of her large-scale public works.
- 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: Blue Tower, New York City Target entity description: Blue Tower in New York City is a striking, pixelated glass residential high-rise on the Lower East Side designed by architect Bernard Tschumi.
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A.
CBS Building (Black Rock), New York City
The CBS Building, nicknamed "Black Rock," is a landmark Modernist skyscraper in New York City known for its dark granite facade and distinctive monolithic design.
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B.
Eiffel Tower of Brooklyn
The Eiffel Tower of Brooklyn is the Parachute Jump, a historic Coney Island amusement ride tower and landmark known for its distinctive skeletal steel structure.
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C.
Astor Place Tower, New York
Astor Place Tower in New York is a distinctive modern residential high-rise known for its curving glass façade and prominent presence in Manhattan’s East Village skyline.
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D.
Water Tower
The Water Tower in Vinnytsia is a historic brick tower and prominent city symbol, originally built as a water supply structure and now serving as an architectural landmark and observation point.
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E.
Water Tower
Water Tower is a 1998 translucent resin sculpture by British artist Rachel Whiteread, cast from a New York rooftop water tank and celebrated as a landmark example of her large-scale public works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
high-rise building
ⓘ
residential skyscraper ⓘ |
| architect | Bernard Tschumi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
contemporary architecture
ⓘ
deconstructivism ⓘ |
| borough | Manhattan ⓘ |
| category |
Bernard Tschumi buildings
NERFINISHED
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Condominiums in New York City ⓘ Residential skyscrapers in Manhattan ⓘ |
| city | New York City ⓘ |
| color | blue ⓘ |
| completionDate | 2007 ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 2005 ⓘ |
| contains |
condominium apartments
ⓘ
ground-floor retail space ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| developer | Blue Condominium LLC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| facadeDescription | pixelated glass facade ⓘ |
| hasBalconies | yes ⓘ |
| hasBasement | yes ⓘ |
| hasDoorman | yes ⓘ |
| hasElevatedViews | yes ⓘ |
| hasElevator | yes ⓘ |
| hasLightingDesign | accentuates glass facade at night ⓘ |
| hasParking | no on-site garage ⓘ |
| hasPenthouse | yes ⓘ |
| hasTerrace | yes ⓘ |
| height | approximately 54 meters ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| location |
Lower East Side
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Manhattan ⓘ New York City ⓘ |
| materialUsed | glass ⓘ |
| neighborhood | Lower East Side NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
distinctive blue-tinted curtain wall
ⓘ
irregular, pixelated glass massing ⓘ |
| numberOfDwellings | 32 ⓘ |
| numberOfFloors | 16 ⓘ |
| openingDate | 2007 ⓘ |
| roofType | flat roof ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 101 Norfolk Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structuralSystem | reinforced concrete ⓘ |
| use | residential ⓘ |
| view |
East River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Williamsburg Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| zoning | residential ⓘ |
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: Blue Tower, New York City Description of subject: Blue Tower in New York City is a striking, pixelated glass residential high-rise on the Lower East Side designed by architect Bernard Tschumi.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.