Lester Whittington
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Lester Whittington was an architect best known for designing the Alaska State Capitol building in Juneau.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lester Whittington canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T962213 — 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: Lester Whittington Context triple: [Alaska State Capitol, architect, Lester Whittington]
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A.
Winston Hibler
Winston Hibler was an American screenwriter, producer, and narrator best known for his long association with Walt Disney Studios, where he contributed to classic animated features and nature documentaries.
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B.
Louie L. Wainwright
Louie L. Wainwright was the Director of the Florida Division of Corrections who became historically notable as the named state official in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright, which established the right to counsel for indigent defendants.
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C.
Lester Crown
Lester Crown is an American industrialist, investor, and philanthropist, best known as a leading member of Chicago’s influential Crown family and a longtime figure in the aerospace and defense industry.
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D.
Dwight Merriman
Dwight Merriman is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as a co-founder of DoubleClick and later MongoDB.
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E.
Earle Kingston
Earle Kingston is the husband of acclaimed Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston.
- 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: Lester Whittington Target entity description: Lester Whittington was an architect best known for designing the Alaska State Capitol building in Juneau.
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A.
Winston Hibler
Winston Hibler was an American screenwriter, producer, and narrator best known for his long association with Walt Disney Studios, where he contributed to classic animated features and nature documentaries.
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B.
Louie L. Wainwright
Louie L. Wainwright was the Director of the Florida Division of Corrections who became historically notable as the named state official in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright, which established the right to counsel for indigent defendants.
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C.
Lester Crown
Lester Crown is an American industrialist, investor, and philanthropist, best known as a leading member of Chicago’s influential Crown family and a longtime figure in the aerospace and defense industry.
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D.
Dwight Merriman
Dwight Merriman is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as a co-founder of DoubleClick and later MongoDB.
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E.
Earle Kingston
Earle Kingston is the husband of acclaimed Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architect
ⓘ
government building ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| designed |
Alaska State Capitol building
ⓘ
linked to:
Alaska State Capitol
|
| fieldOfWork | architecture ⓘ |
| knownFor | designing the Alaska State Capitol ⓘ |
| location |
Juneau, Alaska
ⓘ
linked to:
Juneau
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| notableWork | Alaska State Capitol ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Juneau, Alaska
ⓘ
linked to:
Juneau
|
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: Lester Whittington Description of subject: Lester Whittington was an architect best known for designing the Alaska State Capitol building in Juneau.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.