William Pereira
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William Pereira was a prominent 20th-century American architect and urban planner known for his futuristic, modernist designs across major cultural, educational, and commercial projects.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Pereira canonical | 9 |
| William L. Pereira | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T273784 — 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: William Pereira Context triple: [Los Angeles County Museum of Art, architect, William Pereira]
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A.
Edward Larrabee Barnes
Edward Larrabee Barnes was an American modernist architect known for his refined, minimalist designs for major cultural and educational institutions.
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B.
Laurie Olin
Laurie Olin is a prominent American landscape architect and urban designer known for shaping major public spaces in cities across the United States.
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C.
Henry-Russell Hitchcock
Henry-Russell Hitchcock was an influential American architectural historian and critic known for helping define and popularize modernist architecture in the 20th century.
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D.
Peter Chermayeff
Peter Chermayeff is an American architect renowned for designing major public aquariums around the world.
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E.
Edward Durell Stone
Edward Durell Stone was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for his modernist yet ornamental designs on major public and cultural buildings.
- 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: William Pereira Target entity description: William Pereira was a prominent 20th-century American architect and urban planner known for his futuristic, modernist designs across major cultural, educational, and commercial projects.
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A.
Edward Larrabee Barnes
Edward Larrabee Barnes was an American modernist architect known for his refined, minimalist designs for major cultural and educational institutions.
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B.
Laurie Olin
Laurie Olin is a prominent American landscape architect and urban designer known for shaping major public spaces in cities across the United States.
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C.
Henry-Russell Hitchcock
Henry-Russell Hitchcock was an influential American architectural historian and critic known for helping define and popularize modernist architecture in the 20th century.
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D.
Peter Chermayeff
Peter Chermayeff is an American architect renowned for designing major public aquariums around the world.
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E.
Edward Durell Stone
Edward Durell Stone was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for his modernist yet ornamental designs on major public and cultural buildings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American architect
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architect ⓘ human ⓘ urban planner ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Pereira & Luckman
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surface form:
Pereira & Luckman (architecture firm)
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| designed |
Television City, Hollywood
ⓘ
surface form:
CBS Television City, Los Angeles
Geisel Library at UC San Diego ⓘ
surface form:
Geisel Library, UC San Diego
Los Angeles International Airport Theme Building ⓘ
surface form:
Theme Building, LAX
Transamerica Pyramid ⓘ
surface form:
Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco
University of California, Irvine ⓘ
surface form:
University of California, Irvine campus
master plan for the city of Irvine, California ⓘ Los Angeles County Museum of Art ⓘ
surface form:
original Los Angeles County Museum of Art campus
|
| educatedAt | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ⓘ |
| employer |
University of Southern California
ⓘ
surface form:
University of Southern California (as faculty)
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| familyName | Pereira ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
architecture
ⓘ
urban planning ⓘ |
| founded | William L. Pereira & Associates ⓘ |
| genre |
futuristic design
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modernist design ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| influencedBy | modernism in architecture ⓘ |
| knownFor |
campus planning for universities
ⓘ
design of corporate headquarters and commercial buildings ⓘ large-scale urban planning projects in California ⓘ |
| movement |
futurist architecture
ⓘ
modernist architecture ⓘ |
| name | William Pereira self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableProjectType |
commercial buildings
ⓘ
cultural buildings ⓘ educational buildings ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Television City, Hollywood
ⓘ
surface form:
CBS Television City, Los Angeles
Geisel Library at UC San Diego ⓘ
surface form:
Geisel Library at the University of California, San Diego
Los Angeles County Museum of Art ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art original campus buildings
Marineland of the Pacific (former oceanarium in California) ⓘ Los Angeles International Airport Theme Building ⓘ
surface form:
Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport
Transamerica Pyramid ⓘ University of California, Irvine ⓘ
surface form:
University of California, Irvine campus master plan
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| occupation |
architect
ⓘ
educator ⓘ industrial designer ⓘ urban planner ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| style |
brutalist elements in some projects
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expressive structural forms ⓘ |
| workedIn |
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California
San Francisco ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco, California
|
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: William Pereira Description of subject: William Pereira was a prominent 20th-century American architect and urban planner known for his futuristic, modernist designs across major cultural, educational, and commercial projects.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
William L. Pereira
this entity surface form:
William L. Pereira
subject surface form:
Geisel Library
this entity surface form:
William L. Pereira
this entity surface form:
William L. Pereira
this entity surface form:
William L. Pereira