Ford House
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Ford House is an experimental organic-style residence in Aurora, Illinois, designed by visionary American architect Bruce Goff and noted for its unconventional forms and materials.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ford House canonical | 1 |
| Ford House (Aurora, Illinois) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1897039 — 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: Ford House Context triple: [Bruce Goff, notableWork, Ford House]
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A.
Anderson House
Anderson House is a historic Beaux-Arts mansion in Washington, D.C., that serves as the headquarters and museum of the Society of the Cincinnati.
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B.
Blake House
Blake House is a historic residence and notable landmark located in the City of Fairfax, Virginia.
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C.
McLean House
McLean House is the historic Virginia residence where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, effectively ending major combat in the American Civil War.
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D.
Jonathan Corwin House
The Jonathan Corwin House, also known as the Witch House, is a historic 17th-century home in Salem, Massachusetts, famous as the only remaining structure with direct ties to the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Henry House
Henry House is a historic home and key landmark on the Manassas National Battlefield in Virginia, associated with major Civil War fighting.
- 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: Ford House Target entity description: Ford House is an experimental organic-style residence in Aurora, Illinois, designed by visionary American architect Bruce Goff and noted for its unconventional forms and materials.
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A.
Anderson House
Anderson House is a historic Beaux-Arts mansion in Washington, D.C., that serves as the headquarters and museum of the Society of the Cincinnati.
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B.
Blake House
Blake House is a historic residence and notable landmark located in the City of Fairfax, Virginia.
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C.
McLean House
McLean House is the historic Virginia residence where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, effectively ending major combat in the American Civil War.
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D.
Jonathan Corwin House
The Jonathan Corwin House, also known as the Witch House, is a historic 17th-century home in Salem, Massachusetts, famous as the only remaining structure with direct ties to the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Henry House
Henry House is a historic home and key landmark on the Manassas National Battlefield in Virginia, associated with major Civil War fighting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
house
ⓘ
residence ⓘ work of architecture ⓘ |
| architect | Bruce Goff ⓘ |
| architectNationality | American ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
experimental architecture
ⓘ
organic architecture ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| designedBy | Bruce Goff ⓘ |
| genre | modern American residential architecture ⓘ |
| hasArchitectRole |
visionary architect Bruce Goff
ⓘ
linked to:
Bruce Goff
|
| hasDesignApproach |
experimental design
ⓘ
organic design ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
highly unconventional appearance
ⓘ
innovative spatial forms ⓘ non-traditional construction techniques ⓘ |
| hasReputation | experimental organic-style residence ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Aurora, Illinois
ⓘ
Illinois ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locatedInCity | Aurora ⓘ |
| locatedInState | Illinois ⓘ |
| materialUsed | unconventional building materials ⓘ |
| notableFor |
unconventional forms
ⓘ
unconventional materials ⓘ |
| partOf | architectural works of Bruce Goff ⓘ |
| usedFor | residential purposes ⓘ |
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: Ford House Description of subject: Ford House is an experimental organic-style residence in Aurora, Illinois, designed by visionary American architect Bruce Goff and noted for its unconventional forms and materials.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Goff
linked to: Ford House