Copan Building
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The Copan Building is a landmark modernist residential and commercial skyscraper in São Paulo, Brazil, designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer and renowned for its distinctive sinuous façade.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Copan Building canonical | 4 |
| Edifício Copan | 4 |
| Copan Building (namesake) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6332476 — 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: Copan Building Context triple: [Companhia Pan-Americana de Hotéis e Turismo, notableWork, Copan Building]
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A.
Caracol
Caracol is a large ancient Maya city in present-day Belize, known for its extensive ruins, monumental architecture, and historical significance as a powerful regional center.
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B.
Copán
Copán is an ancient Maya city in present-day Honduras renowned for its elaborate stone sculptures, hieroglyphic inscriptions, and well-preserved archaeological remains.
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C.
Temple of the Inscriptions
The Temple of the Inscriptions is a stepped pyramid and funerary monument at the Maya city of Palenque, renowned for housing the richly adorned tomb of the ruler Kʼinich Janaabʼ Pakal.
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D.
Bonampak
Bonampak is an ancient Maya archaeological site in Chiapas, Mexico, renowned for its remarkably well-preserved murals depicting courtly life, warfare, and ritual.
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E.
Templo Mayor
Templo Mayor was the main Aztec temple complex in the capital city of Tenochtitlan, serving as a central religious and ceremonial center of the Mexica empire.
- 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: Copan Building Target entity description: The Copan Building is a landmark modernist residential and commercial skyscraper in São Paulo, Brazil, designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer and renowned for its distinctive sinuous façade.
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A.
Caracol
Caracol is a large ancient Maya city in present-day Belize, known for its extensive ruins, monumental architecture, and historical significance as a powerful regional center.
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B.
Copán
Copán is an ancient Maya city in present-day Honduras renowned for its elaborate stone sculptures, hieroglyphic inscriptions, and well-preserved archaeological remains.
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C.
Temple of the Inscriptions
The Temple of the Inscriptions is a stepped pyramid and funerary monument at the Maya city of Palenque, renowned for housing the richly adorned tomb of the ruler Kʼinich Janaabʼ Pakal.
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D.
Bonampak
Bonampak is an ancient Maya archaeological site in Chiapas, Mexico, renowned for its remarkably well-preserved murals depicting courtly life, warfare, and ritual.
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E.
Templo Mayor
Templo Mayor was the main Aztec temple complex in the capital city of Tenochtitlan, serving as a central religious and ceremonial center of the Mexica empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
landmark
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residential building ⓘ |
| architect | Oscar Niemeyer ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Modernism
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modernist architecture ⓘ |
| buildingType |
commercial
ⓘ
residential ⓘ |
| city | São Paulo ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| countryCapitalNearest | Brasília ⓘ |
| designer | Oscar Niemeyer ⓘ |
| hasFaçadeCharacteristic |
sinuous façade
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wave-shaped façade ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
hosting commercial spaces
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housing apartments ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brazil
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São Paulo ⓘ São Paulo state ⓘ
linked to:
state of São Paulo
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| namedAfter |
Companhia Pan-Americana de Hotéis e Turismo (COPAN)
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linked to:
Companhia Pan-Americana de Hotéis e Turismo
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| notableFor |
being a landmark of São Paulo
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distinctive sinuous façade ⓘ modernist architecture ⓘ |
| use |
commercial use
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residential use ⓘ |
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: Copan Building Description of subject: The Copan Building is a landmark modernist residential and commercial skyscraper in São Paulo, Brazil, designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer and renowned for its distinctive sinuous façade.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
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