Edward Pearce Casey
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Edward Pearce Casey was an American architect best known for designing prominent public monuments and buildings in Washington, D.C., in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edward Pearce Casey canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1122061 — 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: Edward Pearce Casey Context triple: [Ulysses S. Grant Memorial, architect, Edward Pearce Casey]
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A.
Edward Doty
Edward Doty was an English indentured servant who became a notable early settler of Plymouth Colony and a signer of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
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B.
Horace Newton Allen
Horace Newton Allen was an American medical missionary and diplomat who played a key role in introducing Western medicine to Korea in the late 19th century.
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C.
Edwin Thomas Meredith
Edwin Thomas Meredith was an American publishing magnate and politician who founded the media company that became Meredith Corporation and served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
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D.
Stedman Graham
Stedman Graham is an American educator, author, businessman, and public speaker best known for his long-term relationship with media mogul Oprah Winfrey.
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E.
Sidney Lee
Sidney Lee was a British biographer and literary scholar best known for his extensive work on the Dictionary of National Biography and his influential studies of William Shakespeare.
- 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: Edward Pearce Casey Target entity description: Edward Pearce Casey was an American architect best known for designing prominent public monuments and buildings in Washington, D.C., in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
Edward Doty
Edward Doty was an English indentured servant who became a notable early settler of Plymouth Colony and a signer of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
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B.
Horace Newton Allen
Horace Newton Allen was an American medical missionary and diplomat who played a key role in introducing Western medicine to Korea in the late 19th century.
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C.
Edwin Thomas Meredith
Edwin Thomas Meredith was an American publishing magnate and politician who founded the media company that became Meredith Corporation and served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
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D.
Stedman Graham
Stedman Graham is an American educator, author, businessman, and public speaker best known for his long-term relationship with media mogul Oprah Winfrey.
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E.
Sidney Lee
Sidney Lee was a British biographer and literary scholar best known for his extensive work on the Dictionary of National Biography and his influential studies of William Shakespeare.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architect
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human ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1930s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1880s ⓘ |
| basedIn |
New York City
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Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1864-06-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1940-01-02 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University
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École des Beaux-Arts ⓘ |
| employer |
Office of the Architect of the Capitol
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linked to:
Architect of the Capitol
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| familyName | Casey ⓘ |
| father | Thomas Lincoln Casey ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | architecture ⓘ |
| genre | Beaux-Arts architecture ⓘ |
| givenName | Edward ⓘ |
| heritage | Irish-American ⓘ |
| militaryRank | captain ⓘ |
| mother | Emma Weir Casey ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | won competition for design of Taft Bridge ⓘ |
| notableFor |
designing major public buildings in Washington, D.C.
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designing prominent public monuments in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| notableProjectRole | supervising architect for Library of Congress interior decoration ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building
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linked to:
Thomas Jefferson Building
Taft Bridge ⓘ Ulysses S. Grant Memorial ⓘ Washington, D.C. public buildings ⓘ public monuments in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| participantIn | Spanish–American War ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Portland, Maine ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| positionHeld | architect of the Library of Congress ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New York City
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Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Edward Pearce Casey Description of subject: Edward Pearce Casey was an American architect best known for designing prominent public monuments and buildings in Washington, D.C., in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.