Le Corbusier
E2108
Le Corbusier was a pioneering 20th-century Swiss-French architect and urban planner whose influential modernist designs and theories helped shape contemporary architecture worldwide.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Le Corbusier canonical | 199 |
| Charles-Édouard Jeanneret | 6 |
| Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris | 3 |
| Charles-Edouard Jeanneret | 1 |
| Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand | 1 |
| Modulor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8196 — 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: Le Corbusier Context triple: [United Nations Headquarters, architect, Le Corbusier]
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A.
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue was a prominent American architect known for his influential Gothic Revival and early modern designs, including major churches, public buildings, and monuments in the early 20th century.
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B.
Georges Longy
Georges Longy was a prominent French-born oboist and conductor best known for his influential role in Boston’s musical life and for founding the Longy School of Music.
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C.
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens was a 17th-century Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer known for his work on the wave theory of light, the invention of the pendulum clock, and the discovery of Saturn’s moon Titan.
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D.
Detlev W. Bronk
Detlev W. Bronk was an influential American scientist and educator known as a pioneer of biophysics and a prominent leader in national science policy.
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E.
Pierre Charles L’Enfant
Pierre Charles L’Enfant was a French-born American architect and civil engineer best known for creating the original plan for the city of Washington, D.C.
- 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: Le Corbusier Target entity description: Le Corbusier was a pioneering 20th-century Swiss-French architect and urban planner whose influential modernist designs and theories helped shape contemporary architecture worldwide.
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A.
Calvert Vaux
Calvert Vaux was a 19th-century British-American architect and landscape designer best known for co-designing New York City's Central Park and contributing to many of its major public buildings and spaces.
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B.
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue was a prominent American architect known for his influential Gothic Revival and early modern designs, including major churches, public buildings, and monuments in the early 20th century.
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C.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is a prominent American architecture and engineering firm renowned for designing major modernist and high-rise buildings worldwide.
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D.
Georges Longy
Georges Longy was a prominent French-born oboist and conductor best known for his influential role in Boston’s musical life and for founding the Longy School of Music.
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E.
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens was a 17th-century Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer known for his work on the wave theory of light, the invention of the pendulum clock, and the discovery of Saturn’s moon Titan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (99)
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: Le Corbusier Description of subject: Le Corbusier was a pioneering 20th-century Swiss-French architect and urban planner whose influential modernist designs and theories helped shape contemporary architecture worldwide.
Referenced by (211)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ministry of Education and Health building
subject surface form:
Ministry of Education and Health building
subject surface form:
Capitol Complex, Chandigarh
subject surface form:
Robert Venturi
this entity surface form:
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret
subject surface form:
Pierre Jeanneret
subject surface form:
Le Corbusier
this entity surface form:
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret
subject surface form:
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret
subject surface form:
Josep Lluís Sert
subject surface form:
Pedro Ramírez Vázquez
subject surface form:
Savoye family