Building J
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Building J is a uniquely arrow-shaped, possibly astronomical and ceremonial structure within the ancient Zapotec archaeological site of Monte Albán in Oaxaca, Mexico.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Building J canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1546587 — 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: Building J Context triple: [Monte Albán, notableFeature, Building J]
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A.
North Building
North Building is one of the main exhibition and convention halls within Chicago’s McCormick Place complex, hosting large-scale trade shows and events.
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B.
Building 46
Building 46 is MIT’s neuroscience and cognitive science hub, housing the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and related research facilities.
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C.
The Rice Building
The Rice Building is a historic, architecturally distinctive commercial structure in downtown Troy, New York, noted for its narrow, triangular “flatiron” form.
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D.
Hammer Building
Hammer Building is a key gallery structure within the Los Angeles County Museum of Art complex, housing portions of its art collections and exhibitions.
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E.
Electric Tower
Electric Tower is a historic early-20th-century skyscraper in downtown Buffalo, New York, known for its distinctive Beaux-Arts architecture and illuminated crown.
- 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: Building J Target entity description: Building J is a uniquely arrow-shaped, possibly astronomical and ceremonial structure within the ancient Zapotec archaeological site of Monte Albán in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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A.
North Building
North Building is one of the main exhibition and convention halls within Chicago’s McCormick Place complex, hosting large-scale trade shows and events.
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B.
Building 46
Building 46 is MIT’s neuroscience and cognitive science hub, housing the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and related research facilities.
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C.
The Rice Building
The Rice Building is a historic, architecturally distinctive commercial structure in downtown Troy, New York, noted for its narrow, triangular “flatiron” form.
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D.
Hammer Building
Hammer Building is a key gallery structure within the Los Angeles County Museum of Art complex, housing portions of its art collections and exhibitions.
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E.
Electric Tower
Electric Tower is a historic early-20th-century skyscraper in downtown Buffalo, New York, known for its distinctive Beaux-Arts architecture and illuminated crown.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
archaeological site feature
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ceremonial structure ⓘ pre-Columbian Mesoamerican structure ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
astronomical alignments
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ritual activities ⓘ |
| constructionPeriod |
Classic period in Mesoamerica
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surface form:
Classic period of Monte Albán
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| culture | Zapotec civilization ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | archaeologists in early excavations at Monte Albán ⓘ |
| function |
ceremonial purposes
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possible astronomical observations ⓘ |
| hasInscriptions | yes ⓘ |
| heritageSite | UNESCO World Heritage Site of Monte Albán ⓘ |
| inscriptionsContent |
conquest-related records
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place-name glyphs ⓘ |
| inscriptionsType | carved stone slabs ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Monte Albán
ⓘ
surface form:
Main Plaza of Monte Albán
Mexico ⓘ Monte Albán ⓘ Oaxaca state ⓘ
surface form:
Oaxaca
Oaxaca state ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | letter J in site mapping system ⓘ |
| orientation | unusual relative to main plaza buildings ⓘ |
| partOf |
Monte Albán
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surface form:
Monte Albán archaeological site
|
| researchInterest |
Mesoamerican archaeoastronomy
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Zapotec epigraphy ⓘ |
| shape | arrow-shaped ⓘ |
| significance |
evidence for Zapotec interaction with other regions
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key example of Zapotec monumental architecture ⓘ |
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: Building J Description of subject: Building J is a uniquely arrow-shaped, possibly astronomical and ceremonial structure within the ancient Zapotec archaeological site of Monte Albán in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.