red follies
E638934
Red follies are a series of bright red, cube-like architectural structures designed by Bernard Tschumi that serve as visual landmarks and multifunctional pavilions throughout Paris’s Parc de la Villette.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| red follies canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7061757 — 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 follies Context triple: [Parc de la Villette, knownFor, red follies]
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A.
Peculiar Follies
Peculiar Follies is a section of Charles Mackay’s classic 1841 work "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds," examining bizarre and irrational mass behaviors in history.
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B.
The Traditional Fools
The Traditional Fools were a California-based garage rock and surf-punk band best known as an early project of musician Ty Segall.
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C.
In Place of Folly
In Place of Folly is a nonfiction book by American editor and peace advocate Norman Cousins that critiques modern society’s reliance on war and irrational policies while arguing for more humane, rational approaches to global problems.
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D.
Finding Fanny
Finding Fanny is a 2014 Indian satirical road comedy film set in Goa that follows a quirky group of characters on a journey to find a postman's long-lost love.
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E.
Fauchery
Fauchery is a journalist and secondary character in Émile Zola’s novel "Nana," part of the Rougon-Macquart series.
- 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 follies Target entity description: Red follies are a series of bright red, cube-like architectural structures designed by Bernard Tschumi that serve as visual landmarks and multifunctional pavilions throughout Paris’s Parc de la Villette.
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A.
Peculiar Follies
Peculiar Follies is a section of Charles Mackay’s classic 1841 work "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds," examining bizarre and irrational mass behaviors in history.
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B.
The Traditional Fools
The Traditional Fools were a California-based garage rock and surf-punk band best known as an early project of musician Ty Segall.
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C.
In Place of Folly
In Place of Folly is a nonfiction book by American editor and peace advocate Norman Cousins that critiques modern society’s reliance on war and irrational policies while arguing for more humane, rational approaches to global problems.
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D.
Finding Fanny
Finding Fanny is a 2014 Indian satirical road comedy film set in Goa that follows a quirky group of characters on a journey to find a postman's long-lost love.
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E.
Fauchery
Fauchery is a journalist and secondary character in Émile Zola’s novel "Nana," part of the Rougon-Macquart series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architectural installation series
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folly ⓘ pavilion ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | deconstructivism ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Bernard Tschumi’s winning competition proposal for Parc de la Villette ⓘ |
| color | red ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | City of Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commissionedFor | Parc de la Villette redevelopment ⓘ |
| completionDate | mid-1980s ⓘ |
| concept | points in a system of points, lines, and surfaces ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| designedBy | Bernard Tschumi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feature |
enclosed rooms
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open terraces ⓘ platforms ⓘ staircases ⓘ |
| function |
multifunctional pavilion
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orientation point in park ⓘ visual landmark ⓘ |
| gridLayout | 120-meter grid ⓘ |
| hasType |
open-air structure
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urban furniture ⓘ |
| height | approximately 10 meters ⓘ |
| influenced | later park and landscape designs using follies ⓘ |
| influencedBy | postmodern architecture ⓘ |
| integratedWith |
cultural facilities in Parc de la Villette
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paths of Parc de la Villette ⓘ thematic gardens of Parc de la Villette ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
France
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Parc de la Villette NERFINISHED ⓘ Paris ⓘ |
| material |
painted metal
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steel ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Bernard Tschumi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfElements | approximately 26 ⓘ |
| partOf | Parc de la Villette design ⓘ |
| roleInPark |
organizing spatial framework
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wayfinding system ⓘ |
| shape | cube-like ⓘ |
| theme |
architectural experimentation
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urban park as cultural machine ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cultural activities
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exhibitions ⓘ performances ⓘ recreation ⓘ |
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 follies Description of subject: Red follies are a series of bright red, cube-like architectural structures designed by Bernard Tschumi that serve as visual landmarks and multifunctional pavilions throughout Paris’s Parc de la Villette.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.