Peabody & Stearns
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Peabody & Stearns was a prominent late-19th- and early-20th-century American architectural firm known for designing grand public buildings, hotels, and residences in styles ranging from Richardsonian Romanesque to Beaux-Arts.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peabody & Stearns canonical | 5 |
| Peabody and Stearns | 4 |
| John Calvin Stevens & Sons | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3882020 — 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: Peabody & Stearns Context triple: [World’s Columbian Exposition design team, member, Peabody & Stearns]
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A.
George B. Post & Sons
George B. Post & Sons was a prominent American architectural firm known for designing major public and commercial buildings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Holabird & Roche
Holabird & Roche was a prominent Chicago-based architectural firm known for its influential early skyscraper designs and major civic projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Ingalls & Hoffman
Ingalls & Hoffman was an architectural firm known for designing notable early 20th-century American theaters, including Broadway’s Hayes Theater.
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D.
Sullivan & Worcester
Sullivan & Worcester is a Boston-based law firm known for its corporate, tax, and real estate practices and its work with business and financial clients.
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E.
Herbert S. Stone & Company
Herbert S. Stone & Company was an American publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing notable literary works including Kate Chopin’s "The Awakening."
- 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: Peabody & Stearns Target entity description: Peabody & Stearns was a prominent late-19th- and early-20th-century American architectural firm known for designing grand public buildings, hotels, and residences in styles ranging from Richardsonian Romanesque to Beaux-Arts.
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A.
George B. Post & Sons
George B. Post & Sons was a prominent American architectural firm known for designing major public and commercial buildings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Holabird & Roche
Holabird & Roche was a prominent Chicago-based architectural firm known for its influential early skyscraper designs and major civic projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Ingalls & Hoffman
Ingalls & Hoffman was an architectural firm known for designing notable early 20th-century American theaters, including Broadway’s Hayes Theater.
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D.
Sullivan & Worcester
Sullivan & Worcester is a Boston-based law firm known for its corporate, tax, and real estate practices and its work with business and financial clients.
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E.
Herbert S. Stone & Company
Herbert S. Stone & Company was an American publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing notable literary works including Kate Chopin’s "The Awakening."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American company
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architectural firm ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Beaux-Arts
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Colonial Revival ⓘ Queen Anne ⓘ Renaissance Revival ⓘ Richardsonian Romanesque ⓘ Shingle style architecture ⓘ
surface form:
Shingle Style
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| client |
hoteliers
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railroad companies ⓘ universities and colleges ⓘ wealthy private patrons ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| dissolved | 1917 ⓘ |
| field | architecture ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
John Goddard Stearns Jr.
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Robert Swain Peabody ⓘ |
| hasPartner |
John Goddard Stearns Jr.
ⓘ
Robert Swain Peabody ⓘ |
| inception | 1870 ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Henry Hobson Richardson ⓘ |
| location | Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| notableFor |
grand public buildings
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hotels ⓘ institutional buildings ⓘ large private residences ⓘ |
| notableProjectType |
campus buildings
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office buildings ⓘ railroad stations ⓘ resort hotels ⓘ urban commercial blocks ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ames Building
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Boston and Albany Railroad station ⓘ
surface form:
Boston & Albany Railroad stations (various)
Charlesgate Hotel (Boston, Massachusetts) ⓘ Custom House Tower ⓘ Hotel Vendome (Boston) remodeling ⓘ Memorial Hall (Harvard University) ⓘ
surface form:
Memorial Hall (Harvard University) additions and alterations
New York Life Insurance Building (Kansas City) ⓘ
surface form:
New York Life Insurance Company Building (Kansas City, Missouri)
Oceanic Hotel (Star Island, New Hampshire) ⓘ Pilgrim Monument ⓘ
surface form:
Pilgrim Monument museum building (Provincetown, Massachusetts)
Ponce de Leon Hotel ⓘ
surface form:
Ponce de León Hotel (consulting and related work in St. Augustine, Florida)
MIT Rogers Building in Boston ⓘ
surface form:
Rogers Building (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston campus)
The Breakers ⓘ
surface form:
The Breakers stables (Newport, Rhode Island)
Union Station (Portland, Maine) ⓘ |
| regionServed |
New England
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East Coast of the United States ⓘ
surface form:
United States East Coast
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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: Peabody & Stearns Description of subject: Peabody & Stearns was a prominent late-19th- and early-20th-century American architectural firm known for designing grand public buildings, hotels, and residences in styles ranging from Richardsonian Romanesque to Beaux-Arts.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
James J. Hill House
this entity surface form:
Peabody and Stearns
this entity surface form:
John Calvin Stevens & Sons
this entity surface form:
Peabody and Stearns
this entity surface form:
Peabody and Stearns
this entity surface form:
Peabody and Stearns