Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House
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The Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House is a pioneering Usonian residence in Madison, Wisconsin, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright as an affordable, modern family home that helped redefine mid-20th-century American domestic architecture.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House canonical | 1 |
| Jacobs First House | 1 |
| Jacobs I House | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2427347 — 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: Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House Context triple: [The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, hasPart, Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House]
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A.
Morse-Libby House
Morse-Libby House is a lavish mid-19th-century Italianate mansion in Portland, Maine, renowned for its remarkably well-preserved Victorian architecture and interiors.
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B.
McCormick House
McCormick House is a historic mansion and former residence of Chicago Tribune publisher Robert R. McCormick, now serving as a museum and centerpiece of the Cantigny Park estate in Wheaton, Illinois.
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C.
Millard House
Millard House is a landmark early 20th-century residence in Pasadena, California, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and noted for its innovative textile-block construction.
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D.
Samuel-Novarro House
The Samuel-Novarro House is a landmark Mayan Revival-style residence in Los Angeles designed in the 1920s by architect Lloyd Wright for actor Ramon Novarro’s business manager.
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E.
Dexter Pratt House
The Dexter Pratt House is a historic residence in Cambridge, Massachusetts, best known as the home of the blacksmith believed to have inspired Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “The Village Blacksmith.”
- 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: Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House Target entity description: The Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House is a pioneering Usonian residence in Madison, Wisconsin, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright as an affordable, modern family home that helped redefine mid-20th-century American domestic architecture.
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A.
Morse-Libby House
Morse-Libby House is a lavish mid-19th-century Italianate mansion in Portland, Maine, renowned for its remarkably well-preserved Victorian architecture and interiors.
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B.
McCormick House
McCormick House is a historic mansion and former residence of Chicago Tribune publisher Robert R. McCormick, now serving as a museum and centerpiece of the Cantigny Park estate in Wheaton, Illinois.
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C.
Millard House
Millard House is a landmark early 20th-century residence in Pasadena, California, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and noted for its innovative textile-block construction.
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D.
Samuel-Novarro House
The Samuel-Novarro House is a landmark Mayan Revival-style residence in Los Angeles designed in the 1920s by architect Lloyd Wright for actor Ramon Novarro’s business manager.
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E.
Dexter Pratt House
The Dexter Pratt House is a historic residence in Cambridge, Massachusetts, best known as the home of the blacksmith believed to have inspired Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “The Village Blacksmith.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Usonian house
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historic house ⓘ house ⓘ single-family residence ⓘ work of Frank Lloyd Wright ⓘ |
| architect | Frank Lloyd Wright ⓘ |
| architecturalMovement | Modern architecture ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Usonian ⓘ |
| client |
Herbert Jacobs
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Katherine Jacobs ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1937 ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1936 ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 43.062°N 89.449°W ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| dateOfNationalHistoricLandmarkDesignation | 2003 ⓘ |
| dateOfNRHPListing | 1971 ⓘ |
| designedAs |
affordable family home
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prototype Usonian house ⓘ |
| designPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| floorCount | 1 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House
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surface form:
Jacobs First House
Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House ⓘ
surface form:
Jacobs I House
|
| hasFeature |
L-shaped plan
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board-and-batten walls ⓘ carport ⓘ flat roof ⓘ large expanses of glass facing the garden ⓘ open-plan living area ⓘ radiant floor heating ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
National Historic Landmark
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National Register of Historic Places ⓘ
surface form:
National Register of Historic Places listing
|
| inception | 1936 ⓘ |
| influenced | mid-20th-century American domestic architecture ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Dane County
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surface form:
Dane County, Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Madison, Wisconsin
Wisconsin ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
brick
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concrete slab ⓘ wood ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Herbert Jacobs
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Katherine Jacobs ⓘ |
| NRHPReferenceNumber | 71000039 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Usonian houses
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surface form:
Usonian houses by Frank Lloyd Wright
|
| significantFor |
early example of Usonian design
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experimentation with low-cost construction ⓘ integration of architecture and landscape ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 441 Toepfer Avenue ⓘ |
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: Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House Description of subject: The Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House is a pioneering Usonian residence in Madison, Wisconsin, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright as an affordable, modern family home that helped redefine mid-20th-century American domestic architecture.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
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hasPart
→
Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House
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this entity surface form:
Jacobs I House
this entity surface form:
Jacobs First House