Torres Maldonado Staircase
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The Torres Maldonado Staircase is a sculptural, geometrically complex architectural staircase designed by contemporary architect Preston Scott Cohen.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Torres Maldonado Staircase canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2266236 — 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: Torres Maldonado Staircase Context triple: [Preston Scott Cohen, notableWork, Torres Maldonado Staircase]
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A.
Cordonata staircase
The Cordonata staircase is a gently sloping monumental ramp in Rome designed by Michelangelo to provide a grand processional approach to the Capitoline Hill.
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B.
Escadaria Selarón
Escadaria Selarón is a world-famous, brightly tiled staircase in Rio de Janeiro created by Chilean-born artist Jorge Selarón as an evolving public art installation.
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C.
Librarian’s Service Staircase
The Librarian’s Service Staircase is an internal, staff-oriented stairway within the Library of Congress’s historic Thomas Jefferson Building, used to access and support its library operations.
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D.
Queen's Staircase
Queen's Staircase is a historic limestone staircase in Nassau, Bahamas, carved by enslaved people in the late 18th century and now a major cultural and tourist landmark.
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E.
Spanish Steps (Decatur Terrace steps)
The Spanish Steps (Decatur Terrace steps) are an ornamental, European-style staircase and landscaped urban feature located in Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Circle neighborhood.
- 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: Torres Maldonado Staircase Target entity description: The Torres Maldonado Staircase is a sculptural, geometrically complex architectural staircase designed by contemporary architect Preston Scott Cohen.
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A.
Cordonata staircase
The Cordonata staircase is a gently sloping monumental ramp in Rome designed by Michelangelo to provide a grand processional approach to the Capitoline Hill.
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B.
Escadaria Selarón
Escadaria Selarón is a world-famous, brightly tiled staircase in Rio de Janeiro created by Chilean-born artist Jorge Selarón as an evolving public art installation.
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C.
Librarian’s Service Staircase
The Librarian’s Service Staircase is an internal, staff-oriented stairway within the Library of Congress’s historic Thomas Jefferson Building, used to access and support its library operations.
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D.
Queen's Staircase
Queen's Staircase is a historic limestone staircase in Nassau, Bahamas, carved by enslaved people in the late 18th century and now a major cultural and tourist landmark.
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E.
Spanish Steps (Decatur Terrace steps)
The Spanish Steps (Decatur Terrace steps) are an ornamental, European-style staircase and landscaped urban feature located in Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Circle neighborhood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architect
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architectural staircase ⓘ geometrically complex staircase ⓘ sculptural staircase ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | contemporary architecture ⓘ |
| creatorOccupation | architect ⓘ |
| designer | Preston Scott Cohen ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | architecture ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
complex geometry
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sculptural quality ⓘ spatial experimentation ⓘ three-dimensional composition ⓘ |
| hasForm | geometrically complex form ⓘ |
| hasFunction | vertical circulation element ⓘ |
| hasMedium | architecture ⓘ |
| knownFor | Torres Maldonado Staircase self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
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: Torres Maldonado Staircase Description of subject: The Torres Maldonado Staircase is a sculptural, geometrically complex architectural staircase designed by contemporary architect Preston Scott Cohen.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Preston Scott Cohen