Red Cube (New York)
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Red Cube (New York) is a prominent outdoor geometric steel sculpture by Isamu Noguchi, installed in Manhattan’s Financial District.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Red Cube (New York) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3611442 — 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: Red Cube (New York) Context triple: [Isamu Noguchi, notableWork, Red Cube (New York)]
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A.
Tribeca
Tribeca is a fashionable lower Manhattan neighborhood known for its cobblestone streets, converted industrial lofts, upscale dining, and the annual Tribeca Film Festival.
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B.
New York World Building
The New York World Building was a historic late-19th-century skyscraper in Manhattan that once housed the offices of the New York World newspaper and was among the tallest buildings of its time.
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C.
Battery Park City
Battery Park City is a planned residential and commercial neighborhood built on reclaimed land along the Hudson River waterfront in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
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D.
Starrett City
Starrett City is a large residential housing complex in Brooklyn, New York, known for its high-rise apartment buildings and diverse, middle-income community.
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E.
Brownstone
Brownstone was a 1990s American R&B girl group best known for their soulful harmonies and the hit single "If You Love Me."
- 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: Red Cube (New York) Target entity description: Red Cube (New York) is a prominent outdoor geometric steel sculpture by Isamu Noguchi, installed in Manhattan’s Financial District.
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A.
Tribeca
Tribeca is a fashionable lower Manhattan neighborhood known for its cobblestone streets, converted industrial lofts, upscale dining, and the annual Tribeca Film Festival.
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B.
New York World Building
The New York World Building was a historic late-19th-century skyscraper in Manhattan that once housed the offices of the New York World newspaper and was among the tallest buildings of its time.
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C.
Battery Park City
Battery Park City is a planned residential and commercial neighborhood built on reclaimed land along the Hudson River waterfront in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
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D.
Starrett City
Starrett City is a large residential housing complex in Brooklyn, New York, known for its high-rise apartment buildings and diverse, middle-income community.
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E.
Brownstone
Brownstone was a 1990s American R&B girl group best known for their soulful harmonies and the hit single "If You Love Me."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
abstract sculpture
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outdoor sculpture ⓘ public art ⓘ steel sculpture ⓘ |
| color | red ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | Marine Midland Bank ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1968 ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 40.7086° N, 74.0107° W ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| creator | Isamu Noguchi ⓘ |
| depicts | geometric abstraction ⓘ |
| feature | central circular perforation ⓘ |
| genre | modern art ⓘ |
| hasGeometricForm | cube ⓘ |
| hasNearbySubwayStation |
Rector Street station
ⓘ
Wall Street station ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfFaces | 6 ⓘ |
| hasOrientation | balanced on one vertex ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceFinish | glossy paint ⓘ |
| hasType | site-specific sculpture ⓘ |
| height |
approximately 28 feet
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approximately 8.5 meters ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | well-known New York City landmark (informal) ⓘ |
| inception | 1968 ⓘ |
| locatedInBorough | Manhattan ⓘ |
| locatedInFrontOf | 140 Broadway ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Wall Street ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Broadway ⓘ |
| location |
Financial District, Manhattan
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linked to:
Lower Manhattan
Manhattan ⓘ New York City ⓘ |
| materialUsed | painted steel ⓘ |
| movement |
Abstract art
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Modernism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
bold red color
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contrast with surrounding skyscrapers ⓘ tilted orientation on one corner ⓘ |
| owner | 140 Broadway building management ⓘ |
| partOf | public art of New York City ⓘ |
| publicOpeningDate | 1968 ⓘ |
| shape | tilted cube ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
photography
ⓘ
tourist guides ⓘ |
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: Red Cube (New York) Description of subject: Red Cube (New York) is a prominent outdoor geometric steel sculpture by Isamu Noguchi, installed in Manhattan’s Financial District.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.