Egerton Swartwout
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Egerton Swartwout was an American architect known for his Beaux-Arts–influenced institutional and civic buildings in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
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| Egerton Swartwout canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1346606 — 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: Egerton Swartwout Context triple: [Yale University Art Gallery, architect, Egerton Swartwout]
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A.
Abraham Van Brunt
Abraham Van Brunt, better known as Brom Bones, is the boisterous, brawny rival of Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
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B.
Stephen Van Rensselaer
Stephen Van Rensselaer was a prominent early American landowner, politician, and philanthropist best known as the patroon of Rensselaerswyck and co-founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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C.
Henry Gage
Henry Gage was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 20th governor of California from 1899 to 1903.
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D.
Samuel Arnold
Samuel Arnold was an American Confederate sympathizer best known for his role as one of the conspirators involved in the plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
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E.
Samuel Osgood
Samuel Osgood was an American merchant, Revolutionary War officer, and statesman who became the first Postmaster General of the United States under the Constitution.
- 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: Egerton Swartwout Target entity description: Egerton Swartwout was an American architect known for his Beaux-Arts–influenced institutional and civic buildings in the early 20th century.
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A.
Abraham Van Brunt
Abraham Van Brunt, better known as Brom Bones, is the boisterous, brawny rival of Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
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B.
Stephen Van Rensselaer
Stephen Van Rensselaer was a prominent early American landowner, politician, and philanthropist best known as the patroon of Rensselaerswyck and co-founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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C.
Henry Gage
Henry Gage was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 20th governor of California from 1899 to 1903.
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D.
Samuel Arnold
Samuel Arnold was an American Confederate sympathizer best known for his role as one of the conspirators involved in the plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
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E.
Samuel Osgood
Samuel Osgood was an American merchant, Revolutionary War officer, and statesman who became the first Postmaster General of the United States under the Constitution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
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: Egerton Swartwout Description of subject: Egerton Swartwout was an American architect known for his Beaux-Arts–influenced institutional and civic buildings in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.