Richmond Shreve
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Richmond Shreve was an American architect best known as a principal of the firm Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, which designed New York City's Empire State Building.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richmond Shreve canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T234688 — 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: Richmond Shreve Context triple: [Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, foundedBy, Richmond Shreve]
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A.
William H. Winder
William H. Winder was a U.S. Army brigadier general during the War of 1812, best known for his controversial leadership in the failed defense of Washington, D.C. against British forces.
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B.
Sidney Darlington
Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
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C.
John R. Steelman
John R. Steelman was an American administrator and labor mediator who served as a top aide to President Harry S. Truman and became one of the most influential behind-the-scenes figures in the postwar White House.
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D.
George P. Davis
George P. Davis was the taxpayer whose challenge to the Social Security Act’s payroll tax provisions led to the landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case Helvering v. Davis.
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E.
Louis Skidmore
Louis Skidmore was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which helped shape modernist architecture in the 20th century.
- 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: Richmond Shreve Target entity description: Richmond Shreve was an American architect best known as a principal of the firm Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, which designed New York City's Empire State Building.
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A.
William H. Winder
William H. Winder was a U.S. Army brigadier general during the War of 1812, best known for his controversial leadership in the failed defense of Washington, D.C. against British forces.
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B.
Sidney Darlington
Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
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C.
John R. Steelman
John R. Steelman was an American administrator and labor mediator who served as a top aide to President Harry S. Truman and became one of the most influential behind-the-scenes figures in the postwar White House.
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D.
George P. Davis
George P. Davis was the taxpayer whose challenge to the Social Security Act’s payroll tax provisions led to the landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case Helvering v. Davis.
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E.
Louis Skidmore
Louis Skidmore was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which helped shape modernist architecture in the 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American architect
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architect ⓘ architectural firm ⓘ human ⓘ skyscraper ⓘ |
| architect | Shreve, Lamb & Harmon ⓘ |
| architecturalFirm | Shreve, Lamb & Harmon ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Shreve, Lamb & Harmon ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | architecture ⓘ |
| genre | skyscraper design ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a principal of Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
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design of the Empire State Building ⓘ |
| location | New York City ⓘ |
| memberOf | Shreve, Lamb & Harmon ⓘ |
| notableProject | Empire State Building ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Empire State Building
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Empire State Building ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| positionHeld | principal of Shreve, Lamb & Harmon ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Richmond Shreve Description of subject: Richmond Shreve was an American architect best known as a principal of the firm Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, which designed New York City's Empire State Building.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
subject surface form:
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
subject surface form:
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon