Michael Graves
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Michael Graves was an influential American architect and designer renowned for his colorful, playful postmodern buildings and widely popular product designs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Graves canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T918442 — 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: Michael Graves Context triple: [Postmodern architecture, hasKeyFigure, Michael Graves]
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A.
Laurie Olin
Laurie Olin is a prominent American landscape architect and urban designer known for shaping major public spaces in cities across the United States.
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B.
Peter Chermayeff
Peter Chermayeff is an American architect renowned for designing major public aquariums around the world.
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C.
Richard Meier
Richard Meier is an American architect renowned for his modernist, white geometric designs and major cultural projects such as the Getty Center in Los Angeles.
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D.
Gordon Bunshaft
Gordon Bunshaft was a prominent American modernist architect and longtime Skidmore, Owings & Merrill partner known for influential corporate and institutional buildings worldwide.
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E.
Edward Larrabee Barnes
Edward Larrabee Barnes was an American modernist architect known for his refined, minimalist designs for major cultural and educational institutions.
- 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: Michael Graves Target entity description: Michael Graves was an influential American architect and designer renowned for his colorful, playful postmodern buildings and widely popular product designs.
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A.
Laurie Olin
Laurie Olin is a prominent American landscape architect and urban designer known for shaping major public spaces in cities across the United States.
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B.
Peter Chermayeff
Peter Chermayeff is an American architect renowned for designing major public aquariums around the world.
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C.
Richard Meier
Richard Meier is an American architect renowned for his modernist, white geometric designs and major cultural projects such as the Getty Center in Los Angeles.
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D.
Gordon Bunshaft
Gordon Bunshaft was a prominent American modernist architect and longtime Skidmore, Owings & Merrill partner known for influential corporate and institutional buildings worldwide.
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E.
Edward Larrabee Barnes
Edward Larrabee Barnes was an American modernist architect known for his refined, minimalist designs for major cultural and educational institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Michael Graves Description of subject: Michael Graves was an influential American architect and designer renowned for his colorful, playful postmodern buildings and widely popular product designs.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Minneapolis Institute of Art