Donald B. Parkinson
E141802
Donald B. Parkinson was an American architect known for designing prominent early 20th-century landmarks in Los Angeles, often in collaboration with his father John Parkinson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Donald B. Parkinson canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T690699 — 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: Donald B. Parkinson Context triple: [Union Station (Los Angeles), architect, Donald B. Parkinson]
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Robert A. Miller
Robert A. Miller is the son of renowned American playwright Arthur Miller and has worked as a film and theater director and producer.
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B.
Donald W. Loveland
Donald W. Loveland is a logician and computer scientist known for his influential contributions to automated theorem proving and logic in computer science.
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Philip M. Kaiser
Philip M. Kaiser was an American diplomat and public servant who held several key ambassadorial posts during the Cold War era.
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D.
John R. Pierce
John R. Pierce was an American engineer and scientist best known for his pioneering work in communications technology, including satellite and microwave systems, and for coining the term "transistor."
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E.
Robert B. Leighton
Robert B. Leighton was an American experimental physicist and educator known for his contributions to cosmic-ray and infrared astronomy and for coauthoring the influential Feynman Lectures on Physics.
- 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: Donald B. Parkinson Target entity description: Donald B. Parkinson was an American architect known for designing prominent early 20th-century landmarks in Los Angeles, often in collaboration with his father John Parkinson.
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A.
Robert A. Miller
Robert A. Miller is the son of renowned American playwright Arthur Miller and has worked as a film and theater director and producer.
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B.
Donald W. Loveland
Donald W. Loveland is a logician and computer scientist known for his influential contributions to automated theorem proving and logic in computer science.
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C.
Philip M. Kaiser
Philip M. Kaiser was an American diplomat and public servant who held several key ambassadorial posts during the Cold War era.
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D.
John R. Pierce
John R. Pierce was an American engineer and scientist best known for his pioneering work in communications technology, including satellite and microwave systems, and for coining the term "transistor."
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E.
Robert B. Leighton
Robert B. Leighton was an American experimental physicist and educator known for his contributions to cosmic-ray and infrared astronomy and for coauthoring the influential Feynman Lectures on Physics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Donald B. Parkinson Description of subject: Donald B. Parkinson was an American architect known for designing prominent early 20th-century landmarks in Los Angeles, often in collaboration with his father John Parkinson.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Union Station
subject linked to:
John and Donald Parkinson
subject linked to:
John and Donald Parkinson
subject linked to:
John and Donald Parkinson
subject linked to:
Austin, Parkinson and Martin (architectural partnership)