McKim
E139929
McKim is a surname most notably associated with Charles Follen McKim, a prominent American Beaux-Arts architect and founding partner of the influential firm McKim, Mead & White.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| McKim canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1219395 — 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: McKim Context triple: [Charles Follen McKim, familyName, McKim]
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A.
McKim, Mead & White
McKim, Mead & White was a prominent American architectural firm of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned for its Beaux-Arts and neoclassical designs that shaped many landmark public and institutional buildings.
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B.
McKim Building
The McKim Building is the historic, Renaissance Revival-style landmark that serves as the original central structure of the Boston Public Library at Copley Square.
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Riggs
Riggs is a surname most notably associated with American playwright Lynn Riggs, whose work inspired the musical "Oklahoma!".
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D.
Ward Hill
Ward Hill is a prominent hill on the Orkney island of Hoy in Scotland, known for its sweeping views and rugged, heather-covered slopes.
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E.
Carnegie
Carnegie is a Scottish surname most famously associated with industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
- 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: McKim Target entity description: McKim is a surname most notably associated with Charles Follen McKim, a prominent American Beaux-Arts architect and founding partner of the influential firm McKim, Mead & White.
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A.
McKim, Mead & White
McKim, Mead & White was a prominent American architectural firm of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned for its Beaux-Arts and neoclassical designs that shaped many landmark public and institutional buildings.
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B.
McKim Building
The McKim Building is the historic, Renaissance Revival-style landmark that serves as the original central structure of the Boston Public Library at Copley Square.
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C.
Riggs
Riggs is a surname most notably associated with American playwright Lynn Riggs, whose work inspired the musical "Oklahoma!".
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D.
Ward Hill
Ward Hill is a prominent hill on the Orkney island of Hoy in Scotland, known for its sweeping views and rugged, heather-covered slopes.
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E.
Carnegie
Carnegie is a Scottish surname most famously associated with industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
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: McKim Description of subject: McKim is a surname most notably associated with Charles Follen McKim, a prominent American Beaux-Arts architect and founding partner of the influential firm McKim, Mead & White.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.