Taliesin West
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UNESCO World Heritage Site
architectural landmark
architecture school campus
building complex
museum
Taliesin West is architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s former winter home and studio, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and architecture school campus renowned for its desert-integrated design.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Taliesin West canonical | 10 |
| Taliesin West studio | 1 |
| Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T848180 — 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: Taliesin West Context triple: [Scottsdale, Arizona, hasAttraction, Taliesin West]
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A.
Arlington Springs Man site
The Arlington Springs Man site is a significant Paleoindian archaeological locality on Santa Rosa Island in California, where some of the oldest known human remains in North America were discovered.
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B.
Mound City
Mound City is a historical nickname for St. Louis, Missouri, referencing the region’s ancient Native American earthwork mounds.
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C.
Circular Mound Altar
The Circular Mound Altar is an open-air, multi-tiered marble platform in Beijing where Ming and Qing dynasty emperors conducted solemn winter solstice ceremonies to worship Heaven.
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D.
Moundville Archaeological Park
Moundville Archaeological Park is a major pre-Columbian Native American site featuring large earthen mounds and artifacts from the Mississippian culture, located along the Black Warrior River in Alabama.
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E.
Lamont Geological Observatory
Lamont Geological Observatory is a renowned Earth science research center of Columbia University, known for pioneering work in seismology, oceanography, and plate tectonics.
- 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: Taliesin West Target entity description: Taliesin West is architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s former winter home and studio, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and architecture school campus renowned for its desert-integrated design.
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A.
Arlington Springs Man site
The Arlington Springs Man site is a significant Paleoindian archaeological locality on Santa Rosa Island in California, where some of the oldest known human remains in North America were discovered.
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B.
Mound City
Mound City is a historical nickname for St. Louis, Missouri, referencing the region’s ancient Native American earthwork mounds.
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C.
Circular Mound Altar
The Circular Mound Altar is an open-air, multi-tiered marble platform in Beijing where Ming and Qing dynasty emperors conducted solemn winter solstice ceremonies to worship Heaven.
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D.
Moundville Archaeological Park
Moundville Archaeological Park is a major pre-Columbian Native American site featuring large earthen mounds and artifacts from the Mississippian culture, located along the Black Warrior River in Alabama.
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E.
Lamont Geological Observatory
Lamont Geological Observatory is a renowned Earth science research center of Columbia University, known for pioneering work in seismology, oceanography, and plate tectonics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
UNESCO World Heritage Site
ⓘ
architectural landmark ⓘ architecture school campus ⓘ building complex ⓘ museum ⓘ |
| architect | Frank Lloyd Wright ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture
ⓘ
Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture ⓘ
surface form:
The School of Architecture at Taliesin
|
| constructionStartDate | 1937 ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| coordinateLatitude | 33.611 ⓘ |
| coordinateLongitude | -111.846 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| currentUse |
architecture school campus
ⓘ
museum ⓘ |
| designedForClimate | Sonoran Desert ⓘ |
| formerUse |
studio of Frank Lloyd Wright
ⓘ
winter home of Frank Lloyd Wright ⓘ |
| hasPart |
drafting studio
ⓘ
garden room ⓘ kiva ⓘ pools and terraces ⓘ residential quarters ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
National Historic Landmark
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surface form:
U.S. National Historic Landmark
UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Arizona
ⓘ
Maricopa County, Arizona ⓘ Scottsdale, Arizona ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| materialUsed |
canvas
ⓘ
concrete ⓘ desert stone ⓘ wood ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Spring Green, Wisconsin, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Taliesin (Spring Green, Wisconsin)
|
| notableFor |
experimental design laboratory for Frank Lloyd Wright
ⓘ
indoor-outdoor spatial continuity ⓘ integration with desert landscape ⓘ low, horizontal forms ⓘ use of local materials ⓘ |
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| operator | Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation ⓘ |
| owner | Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation ⓘ |
| partOf | The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright ⓘ |
| setting | Sonoran Desert ⓘ |
| style |
Modern architecture
ⓘ
Organic architecture ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageInscriptionYear | 2019 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Taliesin West Description of subject: Taliesin West is architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s former winter home and studio, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and architecture school campus renowned for its desert-integrated design.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Taliesin West studio
this entity surface form:
Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States