Glass House
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Glass House is a landmark modernist residence in New Canaan, Connecticut, designed by architect Philip Johnson and celebrated for its minimalist, transparent glass-and-steel construction.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Glass House canonical | 5 |
| The Glass House | 4 |
| Glass House (New Canaan) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T630147 — 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: Glass House Context triple: [Philip Johnson, notableWork, Glass House]
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A.
Stone House
Stone House is a historic Civil War-era structure on the Manassas battlefield in Virginia that served as a field hospital during the First and Second Battles of Bull Run.
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B.
Cannonball House
Cannonball House is a historic 19th-century home and museum in Macon, Georgia, noted for damage it sustained during the American Civil War.
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C.
The Bedroom
The Bedroom is a famous painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting his simple, brightly colored bedroom in Arles, celebrated for its bold color, distorted perspective, and emotional intensity characteristic of Post-Impressionism.
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D.
Cornerhouse
Cornerhouse was a renowned contemporary arts and cinema centre in Manchester, England, known for its independent film screenings, visual arts exhibitions, and cultural events.
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E.
Casa Azul
Casa Azul, also known as the Frida Kahlo Museum, is the iconic blue house in Mexico City where the artist was born, lived, and which now preserves her artworks and personal belongings.
- 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: Glass House Target entity description: Glass House is a landmark modernist residence in New Canaan, Connecticut, designed by architect Philip Johnson and celebrated for its minimalist, transparent glass-and-steel construction.
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A.
Stone House
Stone House is a historic Civil War-era structure on the Manassas battlefield in Virginia that served as a field hospital during the First and Second Battles of Bull Run.
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B.
Cannonball House
Cannonball House is a historic 19th-century home and museum in Macon, Georgia, noted for damage it sustained during the American Civil War.
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C.
The Bedroom
The Bedroom is a famous painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting his simple, brightly colored bedroom in Arles, celebrated for its bold color, distorted perspective, and emotional intensity characteristic of Post-Impressionism.
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D.
Cornerhouse
Cornerhouse was a renowned contemporary arts and cinema centre in Manchester, England, known for its independent film screenings, visual arts exhibitions, and cultural events.
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E.
Casa Azul
Casa Azul, also known as the Frida Kahlo Museum, is the iconic blue house in Mexico City where the artist was born, lived, and which now preserves her artworks and personal belongings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic house museum
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house ⓘ landmark building ⓘ modernist residence ⓘ |
| architect | Philip Johnson ⓘ |
| city |
New Canaan, Connecticut
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surface form:
New Canaan
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| completionDate | 1949 ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1948 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Fairfield County, Connecticut ⓘ |
| designedBy | Philip Johnson ⓘ |
| feature |
flat roof
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floor-to-ceiling glass panels ⓘ freestanding brick cylinder fireplace ⓘ minimalist design ⓘ open-plan interior ⓘ rectilinear form ⓘ steel structural frame ⓘ transparent glass walls ⓘ |
| floorCount | 1 ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Brick House
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landscape and sculpture grounds ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
National Historic Landmark
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surface form:
U.S. National Historic Landmark
National Register of Historic Places ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. National Register of Historic Places listing
|
| inspiredBy |
Farnsworth House
ⓘ
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ⓘ |
| location | New Canaan, Connecticut ⓘ |
| material |
brick
ⓘ
concrete ⓘ glass ⓘ steel ⓘ |
| notableFor |
extensive use of glass
ⓘ
influence on mid-20th-century residential design ⓘ integration of architecture and landscape ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1949 ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
National Trust for Historic Preservation
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surface form:
The National Trust for Historic Preservation
|
| ownedBy |
National Trust for Historic Preservation
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surface form:
The National Trust for Historic Preservation
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| partOf | The Glass House campus ⓘ |
| plan | rectangular plan ⓘ |
| region | New England ⓘ |
| setting |
hilltop site
ⓘ
wooded landscape ⓘ |
| state | Connecticut ⓘ |
| style | Modernist architecture ⓘ |
| use |
architectural landmark
ⓘ
museum ⓘ residence ⓘ |
| view |
meadow
ⓘ
pond ⓘ |
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: Glass House Description of subject: Glass House is a landmark modernist residence in New Canaan, Connecticut, designed by architect Philip Johnson and celebrated for its minimalist, transparent glass-and-steel construction.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Glass House
subject surface form:
Glass House
subject surface form:
Glass House
this entity surface form:
The Glass House
this entity surface form:
The Glass House
this entity surface form:
Glass House (New Canaan)
this entity surface form:
The Glass House