Rainier Tower
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Rainier Tower is a distinctive high-rise office building in downtown Seattle, Washington, best known for its unusual design featuring a narrow, flared concrete base supporting a wider upper structure.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rainier Tower canonical | 5 |
| Rainier Bank Tower | 1 |
| Rainier Tower (Seattle) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2567315 — 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: Rainier Tower Context triple: [Minoru Yamasaki, notableWork, Rainier Tower]
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A.
Seattle Municipal Tower
Seattle Municipal Tower is a prominent high-rise office building in Seattle that houses numerous city government offices and is known for its distinctive stepped architectural design.
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B.
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.
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C.
California Tower
California Tower is a historic Spanish-Colonial Revival bell tower and prominent architectural landmark located in Balboa Park, San Diego.
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D.
Smith Tower
Smith Tower is a historic early-20th-century skyscraper in downtown Seattle, once one of the tallest buildings in the United States and a prominent feature of the city's skyline.
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E.
Bancroft Tower
Bancroft Tower is a Romanesque-style stone folly and historic monument in Worcester, Massachusetts, built in the late 19th century as a memorial to statesman George Bancroft.
- 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: Rainier Tower Target entity description: Rainier Tower is a distinctive high-rise office building in downtown Seattle, Washington, best known for its unusual design featuring a narrow, flared concrete base supporting a wider upper structure.
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A.
Seattle Municipal Tower
Seattle Municipal Tower is a prominent high-rise office building in Seattle that houses numerous city government offices and is known for its distinctive stepped architectural design.
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B.
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.
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C.
California Tower
California Tower is a historic Spanish-Colonial Revival bell tower and prominent architectural landmark located in Balboa Park, San Diego.
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D.
Smith Tower
Smith Tower is a historic early-20th-century skyscraper in downtown Seattle, once one of the tallest buildings in the United States and a prominent feature of the city's skyline.
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E.
Bancroft Tower
Bancroft Tower is a Romanesque-style stone folly and historic monument in Worcester, Massachusetts, built in the late 19th century as a memorial to statesman George Bancroft.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
high-rise building
ⓘ
office building ⓘ skyscraper ⓘ |
| address | 1301 5th Avenue, Seattle, Washington ⓘ |
| architect | Minoru Yamasaki ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Modernist architecture ⓘ |
| buildingType | commercial office ⓘ |
| city | Seattle ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1977 ⓘ |
| constructionCost | approximately US$60 million ⓘ |
| coordinates | 47.609°N 122.334°W ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developer | Unico Properties ⓘ |
| distinctiveFeature |
narrow flared concrete base supporting a wider upper structure
ⓘ
pedestal-like tapered base ⓘ |
| floorArea | approximately 538,000 sq ft ⓘ |
| floorCount | 41 ⓘ |
| formerName |
Rainier Tower
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Rainier Bank Tower
|
| hasElevator | yes ⓘ |
| hasLobby | yes ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfElevators | 18 ⓘ |
| hasParkingFacility | yes ⓘ |
| hasPublicPlaza | yes ⓘ |
| hasRetailArea | yes ⓘ |
| hasSeismicDesign | yes ⓘ |
| hasTenant | multiple commercial offices ⓘ |
| height |
156 m
ⓘ
514 ft ⓘ |
| isLandmarkOf | Seattle skyline ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | architectural studies on pedestal skyscrapers ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
downtown Seattle
ⓘ
surface form:
Downtown Seattle
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| location | Seattle, Washington, United States ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
reinforced concrete
ⓘ
steel ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Mount Rainier ⓘ |
| notableFor | unusual structural base design ⓘ |
| opened | 1977 ⓘ |
| owner | Unico Properties ⓘ |
| partOf | Rainier Square complex ⓘ |
| region | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| roofShape | flat roof ⓘ |
| startDate | 1973 ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| structuralSystem | concrete core with steel framing ⓘ |
| uses | office space ⓘ |
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: Rainier Tower Description of subject: Rainier Tower is a distinctive high-rise office building in downtown Seattle, Washington, best known for its unusual design featuring a narrow, flared concrete base supporting a wider upper structure.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Minoru Yamasaki
this entity surface form:
Rainier Bank Tower
this entity surface form:
Rainier Tower (Seattle)