Seafirst Building (Seattle)
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The Seafirst Building in Seattle is a prominent modernist high-rise office tower that long served as a major financial and corporate hub in the city’s downtown skyline.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Seafirst Building (Seattle) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1545303 — 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: Seafirst Building (Seattle) Context triple: [John Graham & Company, notableWork, Seafirst Building (Seattle)]
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A.
Bank of California Building (Seattle)
The Bank of California Building in Seattle is a historic downtown high-rise office building known for its mid-20th-century modernist architecture.
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B.
Portland Building
The Portland Building is a landmark postmodern office building in downtown Portland, Oregon, designed by architect Michael Graves and noted for its colorful, ornamental façade.
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C.
Bellevue City Hall
Bellevue City Hall is the primary municipal government building and administrative center for the city of Bellevue, Washington.
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D.
Washington Plaza Hotel (Seattle)
Washington Plaza Hotel (Seattle) is a modernist high-rise hotel in downtown Seattle designed by the architectural firm John Graham & Company.
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E.
Space Needle
The Space Needle is an iconic futuristic observation tower in Seattle, Washington, and a symbol of the city's skyline and the 1962 World's Fair.
- 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: Seafirst Building (Seattle) Target entity description: The Seafirst Building in Seattle is a prominent modernist high-rise office tower that long served as a major financial and corporate hub in the city’s downtown skyline.
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A.
Bank of California Building (Seattle)
The Bank of California Building in Seattle is a historic downtown high-rise office building known for its mid-20th-century modernist architecture.
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B.
Portland Building
The Portland Building is a landmark postmodern office building in downtown Portland, Oregon, designed by architect Michael Graves and noted for its colorful, ornamental façade.
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C.
Bellevue City Hall
Bellevue City Hall is the primary municipal government building and administrative center for the city of Bellevue, Washington.
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D.
Washington Plaza Hotel (Seattle)
Washington Plaza Hotel (Seattle) is a modernist high-rise hotel in downtown Seattle designed by the architectural firm John Graham & Company.
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E.
Space Needle
The Space Needle is an iconic futuristic observation tower in Seattle, Washington, and a symbol of the city's skyline and the 1962 World's Fair.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
high-rise building
ⓘ
modernist building ⓘ office building ⓘ skyscraper ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Columbia Center ⓘ |
| architect | Chester L. Lindsey Architects ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Modernism ⓘ |
| category |
Modernist architecture in Washington (state)
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Office buildings in Washington (state) ⓘ Skyscrapers in Seattle ⓘ |
| city | Seattle ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1982 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| developer | Martin Selig ⓘ |
| floorCount | 50 ⓘ |
| formerName |
Columbia Seafirst Center
ⓘ
linked to:
Columbia Center
|
| function | commercial offices ⓘ |
| hasElevatorCount | 48 ⓘ |
| hasObservationDeck | yes ⓘ |
| hasParking | yes ⓘ |
| hasPublicAccessArea | observation deck and sky lobby ⓘ |
| height | 235 m ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Seattle
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Washington (state) ⓘ
linked to:
Washington
|
| material |
concrete
ⓘ
glass ⓘ steel ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Seattle-First National Bank ⓘ |
| neighborhood |
Downtown Seattle
ⓘ
linked to:
downtown Seattle
|
| openingDate | 1985 ⓘ |
| owner | Gaw Capital Partners ⓘ |
| partOf | Seattle skyline ⓘ |
| ranking |
one of the tallest buildings on the West Coast of the United States
ⓘ
tallest building in Seattle ⓘ |
| roofType | flat roof ⓘ |
| significance |
major corporate hub in downtown Seattle
ⓘ
major financial hub in Seattle ⓘ |
| status | completed ⓘ |
| tenant | Seattle-First National Bank ⓘ |
| usedBy |
corporate offices
ⓘ
financial companies ⓘ law firms ⓘ |
| usedFor | office use ⓘ |
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: Seafirst Building (Seattle) Description of subject: The Seafirst Building in Seattle is a prominent modernist high-rise office tower that long served as a major financial and corporate hub in the city’s downtown skyline.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.