Seagram Building
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The Seagram Building is a landmark modernist skyscraper in New York City, renowned for its minimalist bronze-and-glass design and profound influence on corporate architecture.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Seagram Building canonical | 18 |
| Four Seasons Restaurant, Seagram Building, New York | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T630148 — 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: Seagram Building Context triple: [Philip Johnson, notableWork, Seagram Building]
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Lever House
Lever House is a pioneering International Style glass-and-steel office skyscraper on New York City’s Park Avenue, celebrated as one of the first curtain-wall towers in the United States.
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B.
RCA Building
The RCA Building, now known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza or 30 Rock, is a landmark Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan that serves as the centerpiece of New York City's Rockefeller Center complex.
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C.
CBS Building
The CBS Building is a modernist skyscraper in New York City, renowned for its minimalist granite façade and status as the iconic headquarters of the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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D.
New York Times Building
The New York Times Building is a prominent high-rise office tower in Midtown Manhattan that serves as the headquarters of The New York Times and is noted for its modern, light-filled design.
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E.
Chrysler Building
The Chrysler Building is an iconic Art Deco skyscraper in New York City that briefly held the title of the world’s tallest building in the early 20th century.
- 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: Seagram Building Target entity description: The Seagram Building is a landmark modernist skyscraper in New York City, renowned for its minimalist bronze-and-glass design and profound influence on corporate architecture.
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A.
Lever House
Lever House is a pioneering International Style glass-and-steel office skyscraper on New York City’s Park Avenue, celebrated as one of the first curtain-wall towers in the United States.
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B.
RCA Building
The RCA Building, now known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza or 30 Rock, is a landmark Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan that serves as the centerpiece of New York City's Rockefeller Center complex.
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C.
CBS Building
The CBS Building is a modernist skyscraper in New York City, renowned for its minimalist granite façade and status as the iconic headquarters of the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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D.
New York Times Building
The New York Times Building is a prominent high-rise office tower in Midtown Manhattan that serves as the headquarters of The New York Times and is noted for its modern, light-filled design.
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E.
Chrysler Building
The Chrysler Building is an iconic Art Deco skyscraper in New York City that briefly held the title of the world’s tallest building in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
International Style building
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landmark ⓘ modernist building ⓘ office building ⓘ skyscraper ⓘ |
| architect |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Philip Johnson ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
International Style
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Modernism ⓘ |
| city | New York City ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1958 ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| crossStreet |
East 52nd Street
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East 53rd Street ⓘ |
| designatedNYCLandmark | 1989 ⓘ |
| developer |
Seagram Company Ltd.
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surface form:
Joseph E. Seagram & Sons
Samuel Bronfman ⓘ |
| floorCount | 38 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
I-beam mullions
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bronze-tinted glass ⓘ curtain wall façade ⓘ setback plaza ⓘ uniform window mullions ⓘ |
| height |
157 m
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515 ft ⓘ |
| influenced |
Lever House renovations and later glass towers
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One Chase Manhattan Plaza ⓘ Toronto-Dominion Centre ⓘ postwar corporate skyscraper design ⓘ |
| location |
375 Park Avenue
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Manhattan ⓘ New York City ⓘ |
| material |
bronze
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glass ⓘ reinforced concrete ⓘ steel ⓘ |
| neighborhood | Midtown Manhattan ⓘ |
| notableFor |
expression of structural grid on façade
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influential corporate plaza ⓘ minimalist bronze-and-glass design ⓘ |
| NRHPStatus | contributing property to the New York City Skyline NRHP listing ⓘ |
| NYCLandmarksDesignationType | individual landmark ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1958 ⓘ |
| owner |
RFR Realty
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surface form:
RFR Holding LLC
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| startDate | 1954 ⓘ |
| street | Park Avenue ⓘ |
| structuralEngineer |
Kahn and Jacobs
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surface form:
Kahn & Jacobs
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| tenant | Four Seasons Restaurant (former) ⓘ |
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: Seagram Building Description of subject: The Seagram Building is a landmark modernist skyscraper in New York City, renowned for its minimalist bronze-and-glass design and profound influence on corporate architecture.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Four Seasons Restaurant, Seagram Building, New York
subject surface form:
Four Seasons Restaurant