James A. Wetmore
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James A. Wetmore was an American architect and Acting Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury whose office oversaw the design of numerous federal buildings across the United States in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James A. Wetmore canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T962214 — 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.
Target entity: James A. Wetmore Context triple: [Alaska State Capitol, architect, James A. Wetmore]
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Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue was a prominent American architect known for his influential Gothic Revival and early modern designs, including major churches, public buildings, and monuments in the early 20th century.
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Olin Levi Warner
Olin Levi Warner was a prominent 19th-century American sculptor known for his portrait busts, reliefs, and architectural sculpture on major public buildings.
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Edward Larrabee Barnes
Edward Larrabee Barnes was an American modernist architect known for his refined, minimalist designs for major cultural and educational institutions.
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John Haviland
John Haviland was a prominent 19th-century British-born American architect best known for pioneering radial-plan prison designs and influencing modern penitentiary architecture.
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Victor Arnautoff
Victor Arnautoff was a Russian-American muralist and painter known for his prominent New Deal–era public artworks in San Francisco and his politically charged, socially realist style.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: James A. Wetmore Target entity description: James A. Wetmore was an American architect and Acting Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury whose office oversaw the design of numerous federal buildings across the United States in the early 20th century.
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A.
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue was a prominent American architect known for his influential Gothic Revival and early modern designs, including major churches, public buildings, and monuments in the early 20th century.
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B.
Olin Levi Warner
Olin Levi Warner was a prominent 19th-century American sculptor known for his portrait busts, reliefs, and architectural sculpture on major public buildings.
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C.
Edward Larrabee Barnes
Edward Larrabee Barnes was an American modernist architect known for his refined, minimalist designs for major cultural and educational institutions.
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D.
John Haviland
John Haviland was a prominent 19th-century British-born American architect best known for pioneering radial-plan prison designs and influencing modern penitentiary architecture.
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E.
Victor Arnautoff
Victor Arnautoff was a Russian-American muralist and painter known for his prominent New Deal–era public artworks in San Francisco and his politically charged, socially realist style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American architect
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architect ⓘ government official ⓘ human ⓘ |
| architecturalStyleUsed |
Beaux-Arts architecture
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Neoclassical architecture ⓘ Renaissance Revival architecture ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| associatedWith |
Office of the Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury
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surface form:
Office of the Supervising Architect
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| designedFor |
United States government
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surface form:
United States federal government
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| employer | United States Department of the Treasury ⓘ |
| familyName | Wetmore ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
architecture
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federal government buildings ⓘ public architecture ⓘ |
| fullName | James A. Wetmore self-link ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| governmentBranch | executive branch of the United States government ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Acting Supervising Architect ⓘ |
| hasWorkContext | Treasury Department building programs ⓘ |
| influencedDomain | standardization of U.S. federal building design ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States government
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surface form:
federal government of the United States
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
administrative leadership in federal architectural projects
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oversight of design of numerous U.S. federal buildings ⓘ |
| notableImpact | shaping appearance of early 20th-century U.S. federal architecture ⓘ |
| notableProjectScope | nationwide federal building program ⓘ |
| notableRole | head of the Office of the Supervising Architect ⓘ |
| notableWorkType |
courthouses
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custom houses ⓘ federal office buildings ⓘ post office buildings ⓘ |
| occupation |
architect
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civil servant ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Office of the Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury
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surface form:
Acting Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury
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| responsibility |
coordination of architects and engineers for federal buildings
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implementation of federal building policies ⓘ oversight of design and construction of federal buildings ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity | United States public works ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| typeOfWork |
government buildings
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institutional buildings ⓘ |
| workLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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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.
Subject: James A. Wetmore Description of subject: James A. Wetmore was an American architect and Acting Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury whose office oversaw the design of numerous federal buildings across the United States in the early 20th century.
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