McGraw-Hill Building
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The McGraw-Hill Building is a prominent Art Deco skyscraper in New York City, recognized for its distinctive green terra-cotta façade and association with the publishing company McGraw-Hill.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McGraw-Hill Building canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5987991 — 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: McGraw-Hill Building Context triple: [Raymond Hood, notableWork, McGraw-Hill Building]
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A.
Leacock Building
The Leacock Building is a major academic and classroom complex at McGill University’s downtown Montreal campus, housing numerous lecture halls, offices, and social science departments.
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B.
Time & Life Building
The Time & Life Building is a prominent modernist skyscraper in New York City's Rockefeller Center that historically housed the headquarters of Time Inc. and its magazines.
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C.
Amoco Building
The Amoco Building, now known as the Aon Center, is a prominent modernist skyscraper in downtown Chicago and one of the tallest buildings in the city.
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D.
New York Life Building
The New York Life Building is a historic skyscraper in Manhattan known for its distinctive gilded pyramidal roof and role as the headquarters of the New York Life Insurance Company.
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E.
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower is a historic early 20th-century skyscraper in Manhattan, modeled after the Campanile in Venice and once the tallest building in the world.
- 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: McGraw-Hill Building Target entity description: The McGraw-Hill Building is a prominent Art Deco skyscraper in New York City, recognized for its distinctive green terra-cotta façade and association with the publishing company McGraw-Hill.
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A.
Leacock Building
The Leacock Building is a major academic and classroom complex at McGill University’s downtown Montreal campus, housing numerous lecture halls, offices, and social science departments.
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B.
Time & Life Building
The Time & Life Building is a prominent modernist skyscraper in New York City's Rockefeller Center that historically housed the headquarters of Time Inc. and its magazines.
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C.
Amoco Building
The Amoco Building, now known as the Aon Center, is a prominent modernist skyscraper in downtown Chicago and one of the tallest buildings in the city.
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D.
New York Life Building
The New York Life Building is a historic skyscraper in Manhattan known for its distinctive gilded pyramidal roof and role as the headquarters of the New York Life Insurance Company.
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E.
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower is a historic early 20th-century skyscraper in Manhattan, modeled after the Campanile in Venice and once the tallest building in the world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
landmark
ⓘ
skyscraper ⓘ |
| architect | Raymond Hood ⓘ |
| architecturalFirm | Hood & Fouilhoux ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Art Deco ⓘ |
| associatedWith | McGraw-Hill ⓘ |
| borough | Manhattan ⓘ |
| category |
Art Deco architecture in New York City
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Office buildings completed in 1931 ⓘ Skyscrapers in Manhattan ⓘ |
| city | New York City ⓘ |
| color | green ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1931 ⓘ |
| constructionMaterial |
steel frame
ⓘ
terra-cotta cladding ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| developer | McGraw-Hill ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| function | headquarters for McGraw-Hill (historical) ⓘ |
| hasDesignFeature |
horizontal banding
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roof sign with McGraw-Hill name ⓘ setback massing ⓘ strip windows ⓘ |
| hasFacadeMaterial | green terra-cotta ⓘ |
| hasFacadeType | curtain wall-like terra-cotta and glass facade ⓘ |
| hasOrnamentationLevel | relatively minimal for Art Deco ⓘ |
| hasSignificance |
associated with American publishing industry
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example of modernistic variant of Art Deco ⓘ |
| hasStructuralSystem | steel frame skyscraper construction ⓘ |
| height | approximately 485 feet ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Times Square ⓘ |
| locatedOn | West 42nd Street ⓘ |
| location |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| namedAfter | McGraw-Hill ⓘ |
| neighborhood |
Hell’s Kitchen
ⓘ
linked to:
Hell's Kitchen
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| numberOfFloors | 33 ⓘ |
| recognizedAs |
New York City landmark
ⓘ
notable Art Deco skyscraper in New York City ⓘ |
| startDate | 1930 ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 330 West 42nd Street ⓘ |
| use |
commercial
ⓘ
office ⓘ |
| yearCompleted | 1931 ⓘ |
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: McGraw-Hill Building Description of subject: The McGraw-Hill Building is a prominent Art Deco skyscraper in New York City, recognized for its distinctive green terra-cotta façade and association with the publishing company McGraw-Hill.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.