Howard Dwight Smith
E266063
Howard Dwight Smith was an American architect best known for designing Ohio Stadium at Ohio State University.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Howard Dwight Smith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2409470 — 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: Howard Dwight Smith Context triple: [Columbus Museum of Art, foundedBy, Howard Dwight Smith]
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A.
Howard A. Smith
Howard A. Smith was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood movies, including the 1961 romantic comedy "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
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B.
Ron Marshall
Ron Marshall was an American actor and singer known for his work in musical theatre and voice performances in animated productions.
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C.
David Dodd
David Dodd was an American economist, Columbia Business School professor, and influential co-author of the classic value investing text "Security Analysis."
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D.
Holland M. Smith
Holland M. Smith was a prominent U.S. Marine Corps general in World War II, renowned for his leadership of amphibious assaults in the Pacific Theater.
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E.
Hurd Hatfield
Hurd Hatfield was an American actor best known for his haunting title role in the 1945 film adaptation of "The Picture of Dorian Gray."
- 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: Howard Dwight Smith Target entity description: Howard Dwight Smith was an American architect best known for designing Ohio Stadium at Ohio State University.
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A.
Howard A. Smith
Howard A. Smith was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood movies, including the 1961 romantic comedy "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
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B.
Ron Marshall
Ron Marshall was an American actor and singer known for his work in musical theatre and voice performances in animated productions.
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C.
David Dodd
David Dodd was an American economist, Columbia Business School professor, and influential co-author of the classic value investing text "Security Analysis."
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D.
Holland M. Smith
Holland M. Smith was a prominent U.S. Marine Corps general in World War II, renowned for his leadership of amphibious assaults in the Pacific Theater.
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E.
Hurd Hatfield
Hurd Hatfield was an American actor best known for his haunting title role in the 1945 film adaptation of "The Picture of Dorian Gray."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architect
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Collegiate architecture
ⓘ
Neoclassical architecture ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| designed | Ohio Stadium ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ⓘ
Ohio State University ⓘ |
| employer |
Ohio State University
ⓘ
Ohio State University Department of Buildings and Grounds ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | architecture ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Smith ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Howard ⓘ |
| hasMiddleName | Dwight ⓘ |
| knownFor | designing Ohio Stadium at Ohio State University ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
French Field House
ⓘ
Ohio Stadium ⓘ Ohio State University campus buildings ⓘ St. John Arena ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| partOf | Ohio State University history ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Dayton
ⓘ
surface form:
Dayton, Ohio
|
| placeOfDeath | Columbus, Ohio ⓘ |
| positionHeld | University Architect of Ohio State University ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Columbus, Ohio
ⓘ
Ohio ⓘ |
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: Howard Dwight Smith Description of subject: Howard Dwight Smith was an American architect best known for designing Ohio Stadium at Ohio State University.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.