Holley statue
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The Holley statue is a public monument in New York City's Washington Square Park honoring engineer and industrialist Alexander Lyman Holley, a pioneer of the American steel industry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Holley statue canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3584195 — 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: Holley statue Context triple: [Washington Square Park, hasLandmark, Holley statue]
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A.
Ouack statue
The Ouack statue is one of the bronze duckling figures in Boston’s famous "Make Way for Ducklings" public sculpture, depicting the characters from Robert McCloskey’s beloved children’s book.
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B.
Kiepenkerl statue
The Kiepenkerl statue is a well-known bronze sculpture in Münster, Germany, depicting a traditional traveling peddler symbolizing the region’s historic rural trade and identity.
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C.
Fidelity statue
The Fidelity statue is a sculptural figure symbolizing loyalty and steadfastness, located at Dublin’s historic General Post Office.
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D.
Gassy Jack statue
The Gassy Jack statue is a bronze monument in Vancouver’s historic Gastown district commemorating John “Gassy Jack” Deighton, the saloon owner considered the neighborhood’s founder.
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E.
Angel of the Waters statue
The Angel of the Waters statue is a celebrated neoclassical bronze sculpture crowning New York City's Bethesda Fountain, symbolizing healing and purity.
- 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: Holley statue Target entity description: The Holley statue is a public monument in New York City's Washington Square Park honoring engineer and industrialist Alexander Lyman Holley, a pioneer of the American steel industry.
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A.
Ouack statue
The Ouack statue is one of the bronze duckling figures in Boston’s famous "Make Way for Ducklings" public sculpture, depicting the characters from Robert McCloskey’s beloved children’s book.
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B.
Kiepenkerl statue
The Kiepenkerl statue is a well-known bronze sculpture in Münster, Germany, depicting a traditional traveling peddler symbolizing the region’s historic rural trade and identity.
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C.
Fidelity statue
The Fidelity statue is a sculptural figure symbolizing loyalty and steadfastness, located at Dublin’s historic General Post Office.
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D.
Gassy Jack statue
The Gassy Jack statue is a bronze monument in Vancouver’s historic Gastown district commemorating John “Gassy Jack” Deighton, the saloon owner considered the neighborhood’s founder.
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E.
Angel of the Waters statue
The Angel of the Waters statue is a celebrated neoclassical bronze sculpture crowning New York City's Bethesda Fountain, symbolizing healing and purity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bronze statue
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outdoor sculpture ⓘ public monument ⓘ |
| category |
Bronze sculptures in Manhattan
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Monuments and memorials in Manhattan ⓘ Outdoor sculptures in Manhattan ⓘ Statues in New York City ⓘ |
| commemorates |
engineering achievements of Alexander Lyman Holley
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pioneering work in the American steel industry ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| dedicatedTo | Alexander Lyman Holley ⓘ |
| depicts | Alexander Lyman Holley ⓘ |
| genre | commemorative sculpture ⓘ |
| hasMaterial |
bronze
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granite ⓘ |
| hasPart |
inscription
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pedestal ⓘ statue of Alexander Lyman Holley ⓘ |
| hasUse |
memorial
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public art ⓘ |
| heritageType | urban public art ⓘ |
| honors | Alexander Lyman Holley ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
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New York City ⓘ New York State ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| location | Washington Square Park ⓘ |
| publicAccess | yes ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Alexander Lyman Holley ⓘ |
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: Holley statue Description of subject: The Holley statue is a public monument in New York City's Washington Square Park honoring engineer and industrialist Alexander Lyman Holley, a pioneer of the American steel industry.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.