Trammell Crow
E169319
Trammell Crow was a prominent American real estate developer and philanthropist known for building one of the largest commercial real estate empires in the United States.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Trammell Crow canonical | 6 |
| Trammell Crow Company | 1 |
| Trammell S. Crow | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1480776 — 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: Trammell Crow Context triple: [Crow Museum of Asian Art, namedAfter, Trammell Crow]
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A.
Stephen M. Ross
Stephen M. Ross is an American real estate billionaire and philanthropist best known as the principal owner of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins and the developer behind New York’s Hudson Yards.
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B.
Douglas Durst
Douglas Durst is a prominent New York City real estate developer and heir to the Durst family, known for leading The Durst Organization and overseeing major commercial and residential projects in Manhattan.
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C.
Eli Broad
Eli Broad was an American billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist known for founding two Fortune 500 companies and making major contributions to education, science, and the arts.
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D.
J. C. Nichols
J. C. Nichols was a prominent American real estate developer best known for pioneering large-scale, master-planned residential communities and the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri.
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E.
Stephen D. Bechtel Sr.
Stephen D. Bechtel Sr. was an American engineer and businessman who led and expanded the Bechtel Corporation into one of the world’s largest engineering and construction firms.
- 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: Trammell Crow Target entity description: Trammell Crow was a prominent American real estate developer and philanthropist known for building one of the largest commercial real estate empires in the United States.
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A.
Stephen M. Ross
Stephen M. Ross is an American real estate billionaire and philanthropist best known as the principal owner of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins and the developer behind New York’s Hudson Yards.
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B.
Douglas Durst
Douglas Durst is a prominent New York City real estate developer and heir to the Durst family, known for leading The Durst Organization and overseeing major commercial and residential projects in Manhattan.
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C.
Eli Broad
Eli Broad was an American billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist known for founding two Fortune 500 companies and making major contributions to education, science, and the arts.
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D.
J. C. Nichols
J. C. Nichols was a prominent American real estate developer best known for pioneering large-scale, master-planned residential communities and the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri.
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E.
Stephen D. Bechtel Sr.
Stephen D. Bechtel Sr. was an American engineer and businessman who led and expanded the Bechtel Corporation into one of the world’s largest engineering and construction firms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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philanthropist ⓘ real estate developer ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Horatio Alger Award ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Dallas, Texas
ⓘ
surface form:
Dallas, Texas, United States
|
| businessRegion |
Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| causeOfDeath | complications from Parkinson’s disease ⓘ |
| conflictParticipatedIn | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1914-06-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2009-01-14 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
North Texas Agricultural College
ⓘ
Southern Methodist University ⓘ |
| employer | Trammell Crow Company ⓘ |
| familyName | Crow ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
commercial real estate
ⓘ
property development ⓘ |
| givenName | Trammell ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Harlan Crow
ⓘ
Lucy Crow Billingsley ⓘ Trammell Crow self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Trammell S. Crow
|
| industry | real estate ⓘ |
| knownFor |
innovative partnership structures in real estate development
ⓘ
large-scale commercial property portfolios ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Navy ⓘ |
| name | Trammell Crow self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
building one of the largest commercial real estate empires in the United States
ⓘ
founding Trammell Crow Company ⓘ pioneering speculative warehouse construction ⓘ |
| notableWork |
development of large warehouse and industrial parks
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development of office buildings and commercial properties across the United States ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
philanthropist ⓘ real estate developer ⓘ |
| philanthropicFocus |
arts
ⓘ
cultural institutions ⓘ education ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Dallas, Texas
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surface form:
Dallas, Texas, United States
|
| placeOfDeath |
Dallas, Texas
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surface form:
Dallas, Texas, United States
|
| positionHeld |
founder of Trammell Crow Company
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real estate magnate ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism ⓘ |
| residence |
Dallas, Texas
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surface form:
Dallas, Texas, United States
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Margaret Crow
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surface form:
Margaret Doggett Crow
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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: Trammell Crow Description of subject: Trammell Crow was a prominent American real estate developer and philanthropist known for building one of the largest commercial real estate empires in the United States.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Trammell Crow Company
this entity surface form:
Trammell S. Crow