Blue Building
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Blue Building is the iconic blue-glass structure that forms the original and most recognizable component of the Pacific Design Center complex in West Hollywood, California.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blue Building canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11077424 — 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 Building Context triple: [Pacific Design Center, hasPart, Blue Building]
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A.
Greenleaf Building
The Greenleaf Building is a notable campus landmark of Shaw University, likely serving as an important academic or administrative facility associated with the institution’s historic legacy.
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B.
Eastgate House
Eastgate House is a historic Elizabethan townhouse in Rochester, England, noted for its distinctive architecture and its associations with Charles Dickens.
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C.
Aston Webb Building
The Aston Webb Building is a prominent historic red-brick centerpiece of the University of Birmingham’s Edgbaston campus, known for its grand domed architecture and role as a focal point for university ceremonies and administration.
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D.
Eastgate
Eastgate is a historic gateway in the city walls of Chester, England, known as a prominent landmark and pedestrian thoroughfare in the city center.
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E.
Eastgate
Eastgate is a small rural village in County Durham, England, situated in the Weardale valley of the North Pennines.
- 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 Building Target entity description: Blue Building is the iconic blue-glass structure that forms the original and most recognizable component of the Pacific Design Center complex in West Hollywood, California.
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A.
Greenleaf Building
The Greenleaf Building is a notable campus landmark of Shaw University, likely serving as an important academic or administrative facility associated with the institution’s historic legacy.
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B.
Eastgate House
Eastgate House is a historic Elizabethan townhouse in Rochester, England, noted for its distinctive architecture and its associations with Charles Dickens.
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C.
Aston Webb Building
The Aston Webb Building is a prominent historic red-brick centerpiece of the University of Birmingham’s Edgbaston campus, known for its grand domed architecture and role as a focal point for university ceremonies and administration.
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D.
Eastgate
Eastgate is a historic gateway in the city walls of Chester, England, known as a prominent landmark and pedestrian thoroughfare in the city center.
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E.
Eastgate
Eastgate is a small rural village in County Durham, England, situated in the Weardale valley of the North Pennines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building
ⓘ
landmark ⓘ office building ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Blue Whale
ⓘ
Pacific Design Center Blue Building NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architect | César Pelli NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Modernist architecture ⓘ |
| city | West Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| color | blue ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Los Angeles County ⓘ |
| developer | Charles S. Cohen (Cohen Brothers Realty) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developmentPeriod | 1970s ⓘ |
| distinguishedBy |
large monolithic volume
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striking blue color ⓘ |
| floorArea | approximately 750000 square feet ⓘ |
| function | commercial building ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
office suites
ⓘ
public circulation areas ⓘ showroom spaces ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
blue-glass curtain wall
ⓘ
iconic wedge-like form ⓘ |
| inception | 1975 ⓘ |
| isMostRecognizableComponentOf | Pacific Design Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOfComplex | Pacific Design Center complex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| location | West Hollywood, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material | glass ⓘ |
| near |
Melrose Avenue
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
San Vicente Boulevard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfStoreys | about 7 ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1975 ⓘ |
| owner | Pacific Design Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Pacific Design Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfSkyline | West Hollywood skyline NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesIndustry |
architecture and design
ⓘ
furniture design ⓘ interior design ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| use |
design center
ⓘ
office space ⓘ showrooms ⓘ |
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: Blue Building Description of subject: Blue Building is the iconic blue-glass structure that forms the original and most recognizable component of the Pacific Design Center complex in West Hollywood, California.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.