Amazon Spheres
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The Amazon Spheres are a trio of glass-domed conservatories at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters that serve as an employee workspace and botanical garden featuring thousands of plant species.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Amazon Spheres canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3868080 — 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: Amazon Spheres Context triple: [NBBJ, notableWork, Amazon Spheres]
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A.
Amazon Luna
Amazon Luna is a cloud-based game streaming platform that lets users play a library of video games on various devices via the internet without needing dedicated gaming hardware.
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B.
Amazon
Amazon is a multinational technology and e-commerce company best known for its vast online marketplace, cloud computing services through AWS, and significant influence on global retail and logistics.
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C.
Amazon Prime
Amazon Prime is a subscription service from Amazon that offers members benefits like fast shipping, streaming video and music, and access to exclusive deals.
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D.
AWS Snowmobile
AWS Snowmobile is a massive data transfer service that uses secure, truck-sized storage containers to physically move extremely large volumes of data into the AWS cloud.
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E.
Amazon Echo
Amazon Echo is a line of smart speakers developed by Amazon that features the voice-controlled virtual assistant Alexa for tasks like playing music, controlling smart home devices, and answering questions.
- 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: Amazon Spheres Target entity description: The Amazon Spheres are a trio of glass-domed conservatories at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters that serve as an employee workspace and botanical garden featuring thousands of plant species.
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A.
Amazon Luna
Amazon Luna is a cloud-based game streaming platform that lets users play a library of video games on various devices via the internet without needing dedicated gaming hardware.
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B.
Amazon
Amazon is a multinational technology and e-commerce company best known for its vast online marketplace, cloud computing services through AWS, and significant influence on global retail and logistics.
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C.
Amazon Prime
Amazon Prime is a subscription service from Amazon that offers members benefits like fast shipping, streaming video and music, and access to exclusive deals.
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D.
AWS Snowmobile
AWS Snowmobile is a massive data transfer service that uses secure, truck-sized storage containers to physically move extremely large volumes of data into the AWS cloud.
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E.
Amazon Echo
Amazon Echo is a line of smart speakers developed by Amazon that features the voice-controlled virtual assistant Alexa for tasks like playing music, controlling smart home devices, and answering questions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biophilic design project
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building complex ⓘ conservatory ⓘ office building ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Amazon Biodome
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The Spheres ⓘ |
| architect | NBBJ ⓘ |
| climateType |
cloud forest
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tropical ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 2013 ⓘ |
| contains |
cafés
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living wall ⓘ lounges ⓘ meeting spaces ⓘ retail space ⓘ river feature ⓘ thousands of plants ⓘ treehouse meeting room ⓘ work areas ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| designStyle | biophilic design ⓘ |
| developer | Amazon ⓘ |
| featuredIn | Amazon campus tours ⓘ |
| hasVisitorCenter | Understory ⓘ |
| height |
approximately 29 meters
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approximately 95 feet ⓘ |
| landscapeArchitect | Site Workshop ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Seattle
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Washington ⓘ |
| material |
glass
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steel ⓘ |
| neighborhood | Denny Triangle ⓘ |
| notablePlant | Ficus rubiginosa specimen tree ⓘ |
| numberOfDomes | 3 ⓘ |
| openingDate | 2018-01-29 ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Amazon ⓘ |
| partOf | Amazon headquarters in Seattle ⓘ |
| plantCollectionSize | over 40000 plants ⓘ |
| plantOrigin |
cloud forests
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tropical regions ⓘ |
| plantSpeciesCount | over 400 species ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
botanical garden
ⓘ
employee workspace ⓘ |
| publicAccess |
by reservation
ⓘ
limited ⓘ |
| purpose |
to integrate nature into the workplace
ⓘ
to provide restorative workspace for employees ⓘ |
| shape | glass domes ⓘ |
| structuralEngineer | Magnusson Klemencic Associates ⓘ |
| Understory | immersive exhibit 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: Amazon Spheres Description of subject: The Amazon Spheres are a trio of glass-domed conservatories at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters that serve as an employee workspace and botanical garden featuring thousands of plant species.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
South Lake Union