Henry N. Cobb
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Henry N. Cobb was a prominent American architect and longtime partner at Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, known for designing significant modernist buildings across the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henry N. Cobb canonical | 20 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1091998 — 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: Henry N. Cobb Context triple: [Portland Museum of Art, architect, Henry N. Cobb]
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A.
Fred C. Dobbs
Fred C. Dobbs is the desperate, increasingly paranoid prospector at the center of the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
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B.
Henry J. Toombs
Henry J. Toombs was an American architect known for designing projects associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt, including the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
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C.
Robert W. Hunt
Robert W. Hunt was an American engineer and industrialist known for his influential role in the development of the U.S. mining and metallurgical industries and leadership in professional engineering organizations.
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D.
George F. Meacham
George F. Meacham was a 19th-century American landscape architect best known for designing Boston’s Public Garden.
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E.
Albert D. Wheelon
Albert D. Wheelon was an American physicist and intelligence official known for his pioneering role in developing U.S. satellite reconnaissance programs and later contributions to aerospace and national security policy.
- 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: Henry N. Cobb Target entity description: Henry N. Cobb was a prominent American architect and longtime partner at Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, known for designing significant modernist buildings across the United States.
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A.
Fred C. Dobbs
Fred C. Dobbs is the desperate, increasingly paranoid prospector at the center of the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
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B.
Henry J. Toombs
Henry J. Toombs was an American architect known for designing projects associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt, including the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
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C.
Robert W. Hunt
Robert W. Hunt was an American engineer and industrialist known for his influential role in the development of the U.S. mining and metallurgical industries and leadership in professional engineering organizations.
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D.
George F. Meacham
George F. Meacham was a 19th-century American landscape architect best known for designing Boston’s Public Garden.
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E.
Albert D. Wheelon
Albert D. Wheelon was an American physicist and intelligence official known for his pioneering role in developing U.S. satellite reconnaissance programs and later contributions to aerospace and national security policy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American architect
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architect ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard College
ⓘ
linked to:
Harvard University
Harvard Graduate School of Design ⓘ |
| employer | Pei Cobb Freed & Partners ⓘ |
| familyName | Cobb ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | architecture ⓘ |
| genre |
civic architecture
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institutional buildings ⓘ skyscraper design ⓘ |
| givenName | Henry ⓘ |
| memberOf | Pei Cobb Freed & Partners ⓘ |
| movement |
Modernist architecture
ⓘ
linked to:
Modern architecture
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| name | Henry N. Cobb ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | contributed to the skyline of multiple major U.S. cities ⓘ |
| notableFor | modernist buildings in the United States ⓘ |
| notableRole | longtime collaborator of I. M. Pei ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Charles Shipman Payson Building, Portland Museum of Art
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linked to:
Portland Museum of Art
Harbor Towers, Boston ⓘ Hyatt Center, Chicago ⓘ John Hancock Tower, Boston ⓘ John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse, Boston ⓘ
linked to:
John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse
Library Tower (U.S. Bank Tower), Los Angeles ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Bank Tower, Los Angeles
Place Ville Marie, Montreal ⓘ
linked to:
Place Ville Marie complex
|
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| positionHeld | partner at Pei Cobb Freed & Partners ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Boston
ⓘ
linked to:
Boston, Massachusetts
New York City ⓘ |
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: Henry N. Cobb Description of subject: Henry N. Cobb was a prominent American architect and longtime partner at Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, known for designing significant modernist buildings across the United States.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.