Peter Harrison
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Peter Harrison was an influential 18th-century British-born American architect, often regarded as the first professionally trained architect in the American colonies, known for designing several important colonial-era buildings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peter Harrison canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9750872 — 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: Peter Harrison Context triple: [Touro Synagogue, architect, Peter Harrison]
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A.
James Houghton
James Houghton is an American actor best known for his role as Kenny Ward on the long-running prime-time soap opera "Knots Landing."
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B.
Christopher Latham
Christopher Latham is an American music industry professional best known as the first husband of country singer Trisha Yearwood.
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C.
George Buckley
George Buckley is a British businessman best known for serving as the chairman and CEO of 3M.
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D.
Thaddeus Rowe
Thaddeus Rowe is the full given name of American actor and producer Thad Luckinbill, known for his role on the soap opera "The Young and the Restless."
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E.
Geoffrey Smith
Geoffrey Smith is an Australian Anglican archbishop who serves as the national leader (Primate) of the Anglican Church of Australia.
- 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: Peter Harrison Target entity description: Peter Harrison was an influential 18th-century British-born American architect, often regarded as the first professionally trained architect in the American colonies, known for designing several important colonial-era buildings.
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A.
James Houghton
James Houghton is an American actor best known for his role as Kenny Ward on the long-running prime-time soap opera "Knots Landing."
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B.
Christopher Latham
Christopher Latham is an American music industry professional best known as the first husband of country singer Trisha Yearwood.
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C.
George Buckley
George Buckley is a British businessman best known for serving as the chairman and CEO of 3M.
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D.
Thaddeus Rowe
Thaddeus Rowe is the full given name of American actor and producer Thad Luckinbill, known for his role on the soap opera "The Young and the Restless."
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E.
Geoffrey Smith
Geoffrey Smith is an Australian Anglican archbishop who serves as the national leader (Primate) of the Anglican Church of Australia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British American
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architect ⓘ library building ⓘ market building ⓘ person ⓘ synagogue ⓘ |
| activePeriod | mid-18th century ⓘ |
| architecturalMovement | Colonial American architecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthCountry | Kingdom of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Yorkshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthYear | 1716 ⓘ |
| citizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity |
American colonies
NERFINISHED
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Connecticut Colony NERFINISHED ⓘ Rhode Island Colony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathYear | 1775 ⓘ |
| designed |
Brick Market
NERFINISHED
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Christ Church, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ King's Chapel NERFINISHED ⓘ Newport Colony House (attributed) NERFINISHED ⓘ Redwood Library and Athenaeum NERFINISHED ⓘ Touro Synagogue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Harrison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | architecture ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Peter ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Andrea Palladio
NERFINISHED
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Palladian architecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownAs | first professionally trained architect in the American colonies ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| location |
Boston, Massachusetts
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ Newport, Rhode Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Newport, Rhode Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Newport, Rhode Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Newport, Rhode Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationalityAtBirth | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the first professionally trained architects in the American colonies
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influence on 18th-century American colonial architecture ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| regionOfInfluence |
American East Coast
NERFINISHED
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New England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Newport, Rhode Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style | Georgian architecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Peter Harrison Description of subject: Peter Harrison was an influential 18th-century British-born American architect, often regarded as the first professionally trained architect in the American colonies, known for designing several important colonial-era buildings.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Redwood Library and Athenaeum