David Olmsted
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David Olmsted was a linguist known for his research and documentation of Native American languages, particularly the Wintu language of Northern California.
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| David Olmsted canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15656836 — 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: David Olmsted Context triple: [Wintu language, documentedBy, David Olmsted]
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David Olmsted
David Olmsted was a 19th-century American politician and early Minnesota settler who served as the first mayor of St. Paul and played a key role in the region’s early development.
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B.
John Charles Olmsted
John Charles Olmsted was a prominent American landscape architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for helping shape major urban parks and park systems across the United States.
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C.
Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. was a prominent American landscape architect and urban planner known for advancing his father's legacy through major park, conservation, and planning projects in the early 20th century.
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D.
Denison Olmsted
Denison Olmsted was a 19th-century American astronomer and physicist known for his pioneering studies of meteor showers and for authoring influential textbooks on natural philosophy.
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E.
Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted was a pioneering 19th-century American landscape architect best known for designing major urban parks such as New York City's Central Park and Boston's Emerald Necklace.
- 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: David Olmsted Target entity description: David Olmsted was a linguist known for his research and documentation of Native American languages, particularly the Wintu language of Northern California.
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A.
David Olmsted
David Olmsted was a 19th-century American politician and early Minnesota settler who served as the first mayor of St. Paul and played a key role in the region’s early development.
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B.
John Charles Olmsted
John Charles Olmsted was a prominent American landscape architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for helping shape major urban parks and park systems across the United States.
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C.
Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. was a prominent American landscape architect and urban planner known for advancing his father's legacy through major park, conservation, and planning projects in the early 20th century.
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D.
Denison Olmsted
Denison Olmsted was a 19th-century American astronomer and physicist known for his pioneering studies of meteor showers and for authoring influential textbooks on natural philosophy.
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E.
Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted was a pioneering 19th-century American landscape architect best known for designing major urban parks such as New York City's Central Park and Boston's Emerald Necklace.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.