Henry Ives Cobb
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Henry Ives Cobb was a prominent American architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his influential work in Chicago and for designing major institutional and academic buildings.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Henry Ives Cobb canonical | 2 |
| Henry Ives Cobb Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T823312 — 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: Henry Ives Cobb Context triple: [Yerkes Observatory, architect, Henry Ives Cobb]
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A.
Charles Hall
Charles Hall is the son of acclaimed American actress and comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
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B.
George Burroughs
George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
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C.
James Gamble Rogers
James Gamble Rogers was an American architect best known for designing many of Yale University's Collegiate Gothic buildings in the early 20th century.
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D.
Alfred B. Mullett
Alfred B. Mullett was a prominent 19th-century American architect who served as Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury and designed numerous notable federal buildings in the Second Empire style.
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E.
William West Durant
William West Durant was an American architect and developer best known for pioneering the rustic yet luxurious Adirondack Great Camp style in upstate New York during the late 19th century.
- 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: Henry Ives Cobb Target entity description: Henry Ives Cobb was a prominent American architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his influential work in Chicago and for designing major institutional and academic buildings.
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A.
Charles Hall
Charles Hall is the son of acclaimed American actress and comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
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B.
George Burroughs
George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
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C.
James Gamble Rogers
James Gamble Rogers was an American architect best known for designing many of Yale University's Collegiate Gothic buildings in the early 20th century.
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D.
Alfred B. Mullett
Alfred B. Mullett was a prominent 19th-century American architect who served as Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury and designed numerous notable federal buildings in the Second Empire style.
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E.
William West Durant
William West Durant was an American architect and developer best known for pioneering the rustic yet luxurious Adirondack Great Camp style in upstate New York during the late 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Henry Ives Cobb Description of subject: Henry Ives Cobb was a prominent American architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his influential work in Chicago and for designing major institutional and academic buildings.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Henry Ives Cobb Jr.