Tamedia Office Building in Zurich
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The Tamedia Office Building in Zurich is a distinctive multi-story headquarters renowned for its innovative timber construction and transparent, light-filled design by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tamedia Office Building in Zurich canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10705851 — 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: Tamedia Office Building in Zurich Context triple: [Shigeru Ban, notableWork, Tamedia Office Building in Zurich]
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A.
Stadthaus Zürich
Stadthaus Zürich is the historic city hall building in Zurich that serves as the central seat of the city’s political administration and government.
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B.
Geneva City Hall
Geneva City Hall is the historic seat of the municipal government of Geneva, Switzerland, known for hosting important political meetings and international diplomatic events.
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C.
Geneva City Hall
Geneva City Hall is the municipal government building serving the city of Geneva in Ontario County, New York.
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D.
Swiss Re Headquarters
Swiss Re Headquarters is a distinctive, energy-efficient skyscraper in London, popularly known as "The Gherkin," recognized for its innovative, curving glass design.
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E.
SwissTech Convention Center
The SwissTech Convention Center is a modern, high-tech conference and event venue located on the campus of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.
- 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: Tamedia Office Building in Zurich Target entity description: The Tamedia Office Building in Zurich is a distinctive multi-story headquarters renowned for its innovative timber construction and transparent, light-filled design by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban.
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A.
Stadthaus Zürich
Stadthaus Zürich is the historic city hall building in Zurich that serves as the central seat of the city’s political administration and government.
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B.
Geneva City Hall
Geneva City Hall is the historic seat of the municipal government of Geneva, Switzerland, known for hosting important political meetings and international diplomatic events.
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C.
Geneva City Hall
Geneva City Hall is the municipal government building serving the city of Geneva in Ontario County, New York.
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D.
Swiss Re Headquarters
Swiss Re Headquarters is a distinctive, energy-efficient skyscraper in London, popularly known as "The Gherkin," recognized for its innovative, curving glass design.
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E.
SwissTech Convention Center
The SwissTech Convention Center is a modern, high-tech conference and event venue located on the campus of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
office building
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timber building ⓘ |
| architect | Shigeru Ban NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | contemporary architecture ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Zurich
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Office buildings in Switzerland ⓘ |
| city | Zurich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| client | Tamedia AG NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructionType | hybrid timber and glass construction ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| designer | Shigeru Ban Architects NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designerNationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| environmentalAspect | use of renewable materials ⓘ |
| feature |
exposed timber structure
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light-filled interior ⓘ transparent facade ⓘ |
| function | media company headquarters ⓘ |
| knownFor |
innovative timber construction
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sustainable design ⓘ transparent, light-filled design ⓘ |
| location | Zurich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material |
glass
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timber ⓘ |
| occupant | Tamedia AG NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | Tamedia AG NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storeys | multi-story ⓘ |
| structuralSystem | timber frame ⓘ |
| use | office ⓘ |
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: Tamedia Office Building in Zurich Description of subject: The Tamedia Office Building in Zurich is a distinctive multi-story headquarters renowned for its innovative timber construction and transparent, light-filled design by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.