SOM
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SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill) is a prominent American architecture and engineering firm renowned for designing major skyscrapers and large-scale urban projects worldwide.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SOM canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9761239 — 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: SOM Context triple: [Tour Total, architect, SOM]
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A.
SOM
SOM is a Canadian provincial honorific suffix indicating membership in the Saskatchewan Order of Merit.
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B.
SOM
SOM is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Somalia.
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C.
SOM
SOM is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for vehicles registered in Somogy County, Hungary.
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D.
SOM II
SOM II is the second session in a series of high-level Senior Officials' Meetings where government representatives coordinate and prepare policy and agenda items for ministerial or leaders’ summits.
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E.
SOM I
SOM I is the first installment in the SOM series, serving as the initial part that precedes SOM II.
- 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: SOM Target entity description: SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill) is a prominent American architecture and engineering firm renowned for designing major skyscrapers and large-scale urban projects worldwide.
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A.
SOM
SOM is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Somalia.
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B.
SOM
SOM is a Canadian provincial honorific suffix indicating membership in the Saskatchewan Order of Merit.
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C.
SOM
SOM is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for vehicles registered in Somogy County, Hungary.
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D.
SOM II
SOM II is the second session in a series of high-level Senior Officials' Meetings where government representatives coordinate and prepare policy and agenda items for ministerial or leaders’ summits.
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E.
SOM I
SOM I is the first installment in the SOM series, serving as the initial part that precedes SOM II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architecture firm
ⓘ
engineering firm ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SOM NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| field |
architecture
ⓘ
interior design ⓘ structural engineering ⓘ urban planning ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
John Merrill
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Louis Skidmore NERFINISHED ⓘ Nathaniel Owings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1936 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
design of skyscrapers
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integrated architecture and engineering services ⓘ large-scale urban projects ⓘ modernist architecture ⓘ |
| notableProjectType |
airports
ⓘ
corporate headquarters ⓘ embassies ⓘ mixed-use towers ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Al Hamra Tower
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
BBVA Tower (Mexico City) NERFINISHED ⓘ Broadgate (London) NERFINISHED ⓘ Burj Khalifa NERFINISHED ⓘ Canary Wharf master plan NERFINISHED ⓘ Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport Terminal 2 (Mumbai) NERFINISHED ⓘ Chicago Federal Center NERFINISHED ⓘ Hajj Terminal, King Abdulaziz International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ Jin Mao Tower NERFINISHED ⓘ John Hancock Center NERFINISHED ⓘ King Abdullah Financial District (master planning) NERFINISHED ⓘ Lever House NERFINISHED ⓘ One World Trade Center NERFINISHED ⓘ Pearl River Tower NERFINISHED ⓘ Time Warner Center NERFINISHED ⓘ Torre Mayor NERFINISHED ⓘ US Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel NERFINISHED ⓘ US Embassy in Beijing NERFINISHED ⓘ US Embassy in London (Grosvenor Square, former) NERFINISHED ⓘ Willis Tower NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officeLocation |
Dubai
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hong Kong NERFINISHED ⓘ London NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style |
International Style
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
modernism ⓘ |
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: SOM Description of subject: SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill) is a prominent American architecture and engineering firm renowned for designing major skyscrapers and large-scale urban projects worldwide.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Pepsi-Cola World Headquarters