Willard D. Straight House
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The Willard D. Straight House is a grand early 20th-century mansion on New York’s Upper East Side, known for its refined neoclassical design and association with prominent financier and diplomat Willard Dickerman Straight.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Willard D. Straight House canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3235214 — 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: Willard D. Straight House Context triple: [Delano & Aldrich, notableWork, Willard D. Straight House]
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A.
D.A. Dorsey House
The D.A. Dorsey House is a historic Miami residence that was home to Dana A. Dorsey, one of the city’s first Black millionaires and a prominent businessman and community leader.
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B.
Jonathan Corwin House
The Jonathan Corwin House, also known as the Witch House, is a historic 17th-century home in Salem, Massachusetts, famous as the only remaining structure with direct ties to the Salem witch trials.
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C.
Isaiah W. Snuggs House
The Isaiah W. Snuggs House is a historic 19th-century residence in Albemarle, North Carolina, recognized for its architectural and local historical significance.
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D.
E. B. Shelfer House
The E. B. Shelfer House is a historic residence in Quincy, Florida, recognized for its architectural and local heritage significance.
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E.
Ladd-Gilman House
The Ladd-Gilman House is a historic 18th-century residence in Exeter, New Hampshire, notable for serving as the state treasury during the American Revolution and now forming part of the American Independence Museum.
- 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: Willard D. Straight House Target entity description: The Willard D. Straight House is a grand early 20th-century mansion on New York’s Upper East Side, known for its refined neoclassical design and association with prominent financier and diplomat Willard Dickerman Straight.
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A.
D.A. Dorsey House
The D.A. Dorsey House is a historic Miami residence that was home to Dana A. Dorsey, one of the city’s first Black millionaires and a prominent businessman and community leader.
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B.
Jonathan Corwin House
The Jonathan Corwin House, also known as the Witch House, is a historic 17th-century home in Salem, Massachusetts, famous as the only remaining structure with direct ties to the Salem witch trials.
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C.
Isaiah W. Snuggs House
The Isaiah W. Snuggs House is a historic 19th-century residence in Albemarle, North Carolina, recognized for its architectural and local historical significance.
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D.
E. B. Shelfer House
The E. B. Shelfer House is a historic residence in Quincy, Florida, recognized for its architectural and local heritage significance.
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E.
Ladd-Gilman House
The Ladd-Gilman House is a historic 18th-century residence in Exeter, New Hampshire, notable for serving as the state treasury during the American Revolution and now forming part of the American Independence Museum.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building
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historic house ⓘ mansion ⓘ |
| architecturalPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Neoclassical architecture ⓘ |
| architecturalType | urban townhouse ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Willard Dickerman Straight ⓘ |
| constructionStart | early 20th century ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| floorCount | multiple stories ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalFeature |
classical detailing
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grand interiors ⓘ refined façade ⓘ symmetrical composition ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | example of early 20th-century New York elite housing ⓘ |
| hasFunction | private residence ⓘ |
| hasOwnerType | private owner ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | New York City Landmark ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
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New York City ⓘ Upper East Side ⓘ |
| material | masonry ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Willard Dickerman Straight ⓘ |
| neighborhoodCharacter | affluent urban area ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with a diplomat
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association with a prominent financier ⓘ neoclassical design ⓘ |
| region | Northeastern United States ⓘ |
| use | residential building ⓘ |
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: Willard D. Straight House Description of subject: The Willard D. Straight House is a grand early 20th-century mansion on New York’s Upper East Side, known for its refined neoclassical design and association with prominent financier and diplomat Willard Dickerman Straight.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.