GM Building plaza
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GM Building plaza is the prominent public plaza in front of Manhattan’s General Motors Building, best known as the site of Apple’s iconic glass-cube Fifth Avenue store.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| GM Building | 1 |
| GM Building plaza canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T261657 — 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: GM Building plaza Context triple: [Apple Fifth Avenue store, locatedAt, GM Building plaza]
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A.
Main Building
The Main Building of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art is its principal exhibition complex, housing major collections of modern and contemporary art and serving as the museum’s central architectural landmark.
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B.
Jackson Graham Building
The Jackson Graham Building is an office complex in Washington, D.C., best known as the longtime central administrative headquarters of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
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C.
Nassif Building
The Nassif Building is a prominent federal office building in Washington, D.C., best known for long serving as the main headquarters of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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D.
Comerica Bank Tower
Comerica Bank Tower is a prominent postmodern skyscraper in the Dallas skyline, known for its distinctive stepped design and role as a major office building in the city’s central business district.
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E.
Brooks Building
The Brooks Building is a key teaching and learning facility of Manchester Metropolitan University, known for housing education and health-related disciplines in modern, sustainable spaces.
- 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: GM Building plaza Target entity description: GM Building plaza is the prominent public plaza in front of Manhattan’s General Motors Building, best known as the site of Apple’s iconic glass-cube Fifth Avenue store.
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A.
GE Building
The GE Building, now known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza or "30 Rock," is a landmark Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan that serves as a centerpiece of Rockefeller Center and a historic hub for NBC television studios.
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B.
Main Building
The Main Building of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art is its principal exhibition complex, housing major collections of modern and contemporary art and serving as the museum’s central architectural landmark.
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C.
Jackson Graham Building
The Jackson Graham Building is an office complex in Washington, D.C., best known as the longtime central administrative headquarters of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
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D.
Nassif Building
The Nassif Building is a prominent federal office building in Washington, D.C., best known for long serving as the main headquarters of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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E.
Comerica Bank Tower
Comerica Bank Tower is a prominent postmodern skyscraper in the Dallas skyline, known for its distinctive stepped design and role as a major office building in the city’s central business district.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public plaza
ⓘ
urban open space ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | 767 Fifth Avenue ⓘ |
| associatedWith | General Motors Building ⓘ |
| bestKnownAsSiteOf | Apple Fifth Avenue store ⓘ |
| features |
Apple Fifth Avenue store
ⓘ
surface form:
Apple Fifth Avenue glass cube entrance
|
| hasAccessibility | open to the public ⓘ |
| hasDesignElement |
steps and seating areas
ⓘ
sunken entrance to underground retail space ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
entrance forecourt of Apple Fifth Avenue store
ⓘ
entrance forecourt of General Motors Building ⓘ |
| hasLandmark | Apple glass cube ⓘ |
| hasNotableViewOf |
Fifth Avenue
ⓘ
General Motors Building ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryRetailTenant | Apple Fifth Avenue store ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceType | paved plaza ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Midtown Manhattan ⓘ |
| isPopularWith |
photographers
ⓘ
shoppers ⓘ tourists ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ New York ⓘ
surface form:
New York State
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedInFrontOf | General Motors Building ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Fifth Avenue ⓘ |
| near |
Central Park
ⓘ
Grand Army Plaza (Central Park) ⓘ
surface form:
Grand Army Plaza (Manhattan)
Plaza Hotel ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 767 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY ⓘ |
| usedFor |
pedestrian circulation
ⓘ
public gathering ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
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: GM Building plaza Description of subject: GM Building plaza is the prominent public plaza in front of Manhattan’s General Motors Building, best known as the site of Apple’s iconic glass-cube Fifth Avenue store.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
GM Building