New York City Building
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New York City Building is a historic structure in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens, originally built for the 1939 World’s Fair and now best known as the longtime home of the Queens Museum.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New York City Building canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11439086 — 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: New York City Building Context triple: [Queens Museum, buildingLocatedIn, New York City Building]
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A.
Crown Building, New York City
The Crown Building in New York City is a historic, ornately detailed early-20th-century skyscraper on Fifth Avenue, renowned for its distinctive gilded crown and luxury retail and office spaces.
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B.
CBS Building (Black Rock), New York City
The CBS Building, nicknamed "Black Rock," is a landmark Modernist skyscraper in New York City known for its dark granite facade and distinctive monolithic design.
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C.
New York World Building
The New York World Building was a historic late-19th-century skyscraper in Manhattan that once housed the offices of the New York World newspaper and was among the tallest buildings of its time.
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D.
Empire State
Empire State is a well-known nickname for the U.S. state of New York, reflecting its historical wealth, influence, and prominence.
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E.
Empire State
Empire State is a 2013 American crime drama film about a pair of friends who plan a major armored car depot heist in New York City.
- 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: New York City Building Target entity description: New York City Building is a historic structure in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens, originally built for the 1939 World’s Fair and now best known as the longtime home of the Queens Museum.
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A.
Crown Building, New York City
The Crown Building in New York City is a historic, ornately detailed early-20th-century skyscraper on Fifth Avenue, renowned for its distinctive gilded crown and luxury retail and office spaces.
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B.
CBS Building (Black Rock), New York City
The CBS Building, nicknamed "Black Rock," is a landmark Modernist skyscraper in New York City known for its dark granite facade and distinctive monolithic design.
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C.
New York World Building
The New York World Building was a historic late-19th-century skyscraper in Manhattan that once housed the offices of the New York World newspaper and was among the tallest buildings of its time.
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D.
Empire State
Empire State is a well-known nickname for the U.S. state of New York, reflecting its historical wealth, influence, and prominence.
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E.
Empire State
Empire State is a 2013 American crime drama film about a pair of friends who plan a major armored car depot heist in New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building
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historic structure ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Modernist architecture ⓘ |
| associatedEvent |
1939 New York World’s Fair
ⓘ
linked to:
New York World's Fair (1939–1940)
1964–1965 New York World’s Fair ⓘ
linked to:
New York World's Fair
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| currentUse |
Queens Museum building
ⓘ
linked to:
Queens Museum
|
| hasFunction |
cultural venue
ⓘ
public museum space ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | historic building ⓘ |
| knownFor | longtime home of the Queens Museum ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ Queens ⓘ |
| municipality | New York City ⓘ |
| operator | Queens Museum ⓘ |
| originalPurpose | pavilion for the 1939 New York World’s Fair ⓘ |
| owner |
City of New York
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
|
| partOf |
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park fairgrounds legacy structures
ⓘ
linked to:
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park
|
| region | Borough of Queens ⓘ |
| significance | one of the remaining structures from the 1939 World’s Fair ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| tenant | Queens Museum ⓘ |
| usedAs |
New York City Pavilion
ⓘ
New York City exhibition space during world’s fairs ⓘ |
| usedFor |
exhibition space
ⓘ
museum ⓘ |
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: New York City Building Description of subject: New York City Building is a historic structure in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens, originally built for the 1939 World’s Fair and now best known as the longtime home of the Queens Museum.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.