Thomas Prosser
E241928
Thomas Prosser was a 19th-century British railway architect best known for designing major stations such as York railway station.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Prosser canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2154129 — 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: Thomas Prosser Context triple: [York railway station, architect, Thomas Prosser]
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A.
William P. Frye
William P. Frye was an American politician and long-serving U.S. Senator from Maine who played a prominent role in late 19th- and early 20th-century national politics.
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B.
Charles Alan Wright
Charles Alan Wright was a prominent American legal scholar and constitutional law expert, best known as the principal author of the influential treatise "Federal Practice and Procedure."
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C.
Lewis Powell
Lewis Powell was a Confederate sympathizer and member of John Wilkes Booth’s plot who attempted to assassinate Secretary of State William H. Seward on the night Abraham Lincoln was killed.
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D.
John C. Austin
John C. Austin was a prominent early 20th-century American architect known for shaping the civic and cultural landscape of Los Angeles through several landmark buildings.
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E.
Richard T. Rives
Richard T. Rives was a U.S. federal appellate judge known for his influential civil rights decisions during the mid-20th century, particularly in cases challenging racial segregation in the American South.
- 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: Thomas Prosser Target entity description: Thomas Prosser was a 19th-century British railway architect best known for designing major stations such as York railway station.
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A.
William P. Frye
William P. Frye was an American politician and long-serving U.S. Senator from Maine who played a prominent role in late 19th- and early 20th-century national politics.
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B.
Charles Alan Wright
Charles Alan Wright was a prominent American legal scholar and constitutional law expert, best known as the principal author of the influential treatise "Federal Practice and Procedure."
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C.
Lewis Powell
Lewis Powell was a Confederate sympathizer and member of John Wilkes Booth’s plot who attempted to assassinate Secretary of State William H. Seward on the night Abraham Lincoln was killed.
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D.
John C. Austin
John C. Austin was a prominent early 20th-century American architect known for shaping the civic and cultural landscape of Los Angeles through several landmark buildings.
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E.
Richard T. Rives
Richard T. Rives was a U.S. federal appellate judge known for his influential civil rights decisions during the mid-20th century, particularly in cases challenging racial segregation in the American South.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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architect ⓘ railway architect ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer | railway companies in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
architecture
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railway architecture ⓘ |
| genre | railway station design ⓘ |
| knownFor |
designing York railway station
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designing major British railway stations ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork | York railway station ⓘ |
| occupation |
architect
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railway architect ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Great Britain
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| workLocation |
England
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York ⓘ York railway station ⓘ |
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: Thomas Prosser Description of subject: Thomas Prosser was a 19th-century British railway architect best known for designing major stations such as York railway station.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.