Austin-Whittemore House
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The Austin-Whittemore House is a historic 19th-century residence in Vermillion, South Dakota, now preserved as a museum showcasing local history and period architecture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Austin-Whittemore House canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13050092 — 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: Austin-Whittemore House Context triple: [Vermillion, South Dakota, hasAttraction, Austin-Whittemore House]
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A.
Saxton McKinley House
The Saxton McKinley House is a historic residence in Canton, Ohio, best known as the former home of First Lady Ida Saxton McKinley and part of the site commemorating her life and that of President William McKinley.
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B.
Joseph Webb House
The Joseph Webb House is a prominent 18th-century Georgian-style residence in Wethersfield, Connecticut, best known as George Washington’s 1781 Revolutionary War headquarters and a key site in early American history.
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C.
Owens–Thomas House
The Owens–Thomas House is a prominent Regency-style historic mansion and museum in Savannah, Georgia, noted for its architecture and preserved urban slave quarters.
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D.
Ovid Butler House
The Ovid Butler House is a historic residence in Indianapolis, Indiana, associated with Ovid Butler, the abolitionist lawyer and founder of Butler University.
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E.
Isaac D. Fletcher House
The Isaac D. Fletcher House is a grand Gilded Age mansion in New York City, designed in an opulent French Gothic and Renaissance Revival style and later incorporated into the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- 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: Austin-Whittemore House Target entity description: The Austin-Whittemore House is a historic 19th-century residence in Vermillion, South Dakota, now preserved as a museum showcasing local history and period architecture.
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A.
Saxton McKinley House
The Saxton McKinley House is a historic residence in Canton, Ohio, best known as the former home of First Lady Ida Saxton McKinley and part of the site commemorating her life and that of President William McKinley.
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B.
Joseph Webb House
The Joseph Webb House is a prominent 18th-century Georgian-style residence in Wethersfield, Connecticut, best known as George Washington’s 1781 Revolutionary War headquarters and a key site in early American history.
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C.
Owens–Thomas House
The Owens–Thomas House is a prominent Regency-style historic mansion and museum in Savannah, Georgia, noted for its architecture and preserved urban slave quarters.
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D.
Ovid Butler House
The Ovid Butler House is a historic residence in Indianapolis, Indiana, associated with Ovid Butler, the abolitionist lawyer and founder of Butler University.
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E.
Isaac D. Fletcher House
The Isaac D. Fletcher House is a grand Gilded Age mansion in New York City, designed in an opulent French Gothic and Renaissance Revival style and later incorporated into the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic house
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house museum ⓘ museum ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | 19th-century American residential architecture ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre | local history museum ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance |
example of preserved period architecture in South Dakota
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represents 19th-century life in Vermillion ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
preservation of period architecture
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showcasing local history ⓘ |
| hasPart |
historic furnishings
ⓘ
period rooms ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | local historic property ⓘ |
| inception | 19th century ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Clay County, South Dakota ⓘ |
| location | Vermillion, South Dakota ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | local historical organization ⓘ |
| openToPublic | true ⓘ |
| significantPlace | Vermillion, South Dakota ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
local history exhibits
ⓘ
period architecture exhibits ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | true ⓘ |
| use |
historic house museum
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museum ⓘ |
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: Austin-Whittemore House Description of subject: The Austin-Whittemore House is a historic 19th-century residence in Vermillion, South Dakota, now preserved as a museum showcasing local history and period architecture.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.