Sony Building
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Sony Building, formerly known as Sony Tower, is a prominent commercial skyscraper associated with Sony that serves as an office and showcase space for the company’s products and brand.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sony Building canonical | 5 |
| Ginza Sony Park project | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3699658 — 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: Sony Building Context triple: [Sony Tower, formerName, Sony Building]
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A.
Fuji Television Building
The Fuji Television Building is a landmark futuristic headquarters of Fuji TV in Tokyo, renowned for its striking modernist architecture featuring a prominent spherical observation deck.
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B.
Shinjuku Nomura Building
Shinjuku Nomura Building is a prominent high-rise office skyscraper in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district, known for its observation facilities, corporate offices, and dining options.
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C.
Shinjuku Mitsui Building
Shinjuku Mitsui Building is a prominent high-rise office skyscraper in Tokyo’s Shinjuku business district, known for its distinctive modernist design and role as a major commercial hub.
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D.
Shinjuku Sumitomo Building
Shinjuku Sumitomo Building is a prominent high-rise office skyscraper in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district, known for its distinctive triangular design and role as a major business landmark.
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E.
Shinjuku Center Building
Shinjuku Center Building is a prominent high-rise office skyscraper in Tokyo’s Shinjuku business district, known for its distinctive modern architecture and panoramic city views.
- 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: Sony Building Target entity description: Sony Building, formerly known as Sony Tower, is a prominent commercial skyscraper associated with Sony that serves as an office and showcase space for the company’s products and brand.
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A.
Fuji Television Building
The Fuji Television Building is a landmark futuristic headquarters of Fuji TV in Tokyo, renowned for its striking modernist architecture featuring a prominent spherical observation deck.
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B.
Shinjuku Nomura Building
Shinjuku Nomura Building is a prominent high-rise office skyscraper in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district, known for its observation facilities, corporate offices, and dining options.
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C.
Shinjuku Mitsui Building
Shinjuku Mitsui Building is a prominent high-rise office skyscraper in Tokyo’s Shinjuku business district, known for its distinctive modernist design and role as a major commercial hub.
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D.
Shinjuku Sumitomo Building
Shinjuku Sumitomo Building is a prominent high-rise office skyscraper in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district, known for its distinctive triangular design and role as a major business landmark.
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E.
Shinjuku Center Building
Shinjuku Center Building is a prominent high-rise office skyscraper in Tokyo’s Shinjuku business district, known for its distinctive modern architecture and panoramic city views.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial building
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corporate headquarters building ⓘ office building ⓘ skyscraper ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Modernist architecture ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Sony ⓘ |
| brandFunction |
brand promotion space for Sony
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showcase space for Sony products ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Chūō, Tokyo
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Office buildings in Japan ⓘ Skyscrapers in Tokyo ⓘ Sony buildings ⓘ |
| city | Tokyo ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| demolitionDate | 2017 ⓘ |
| developer | Sony ⓘ |
| floorCount | 8 ⓘ |
| formerName | Sony Tower ⓘ |
| function |
corporate office space for Sony
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flagship showroom for Sony ⓘ |
| hasBasementLevels | 5 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
event spaces for product launches
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multi-level exhibition spaces ⓘ public plaza at street level ⓘ retail stores for Sony products ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Ginza NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material |
concrete
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glass ⓘ steel ⓘ |
| neighborhood | Chūō, Tokyo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
interactive Sony product showrooms
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prominent location at Sukiyabashi Crossing in Ginza ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1966 ⓘ |
| owner | Sony ⓘ |
| publicAccess | yes ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Ginza Sony Park ⓘ |
| significance |
landmark of Ginza commercial district
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symbol of Sony’s corporate identity in Tokyo ⓘ |
| use |
exhibition space
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office ⓘ retail ⓘ showroom ⓘ |
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: Sony Building Description of subject: Sony Building, formerly known as Sony Tower, is a prominent commercial skyscraper associated with Sony that serves as an office and showcase space for the company’s products and brand.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sony Park Mini
subject surface form:
Sony Park Mini
subject surface form:
Sony Park Mini
this entity surface form:
Ginza Sony Park project
subject surface form:
Sony Park Mini