Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz
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Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz was an American architect known for designing significant early skyscrapers and public buildings in New York City, including the New York Times Building at Times Square.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T988864 — 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: Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz Context triple: [Leopold Eidlitz, child, Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz]
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A.
William H. Kirkland
William H. Kirkland was the husband of actress and vaudeville performer June Havoc.
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B.
Samuel J. Gorlitz
Samuel J. Gorlitz is an American real estate entrepreneur best known as the founder of Federal Realty Investment Trust, a major publicly traded real estate investment trust specializing in retail and mixed-use properties.
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C.
Edwin E. Witte
Edwin E. Witte was an American economist and civil servant known as the “father of Social Security” for his central role in drafting the U.S. Social Security Act of 1935.
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D.
Edmund G. Ross
Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
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E.
George W. Julian
George W. Julian was a 19th-century American politician and abolitionist known for his strong anti-slavery stance and leadership within the Radical Republican movement during and after the Civil War.
- 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: Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz Target entity description: Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz was an American architect known for designing significant early skyscrapers and public buildings in New York City, including the New York Times Building at Times Square.
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A.
William H. Kirkland
William H. Kirkland was the husband of actress and vaudeville performer June Havoc.
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B.
Samuel J. Gorlitz
Samuel J. Gorlitz is an American real estate entrepreneur best known as the founder of Federal Realty Investment Trust, a major publicly traded real estate investment trust specializing in retail and mixed-use properties.
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C.
Edwin E. Witte
Edwin E. Witte was an American economist and civil servant known as the “father of Social Security” for his central role in drafting the U.S. Social Security Act of 1935.
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D.
Edmund G. Ross
Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
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E.
George W. Julian
George W. Julian was a 19th-century American politician and abolitionist known for his strong anti-slavery stance and leadership within the Radical Republican movement during and after the Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American architect
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architect ⓘ human ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence | New York City architecture ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | self-employed architect ⓘ |
| familyName | Eidlitz ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | architecture ⓘ |
| genre |
public building design
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skyscraper design ⓘ |
| givenName |
Cyrus
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linked to:
Cyrus I
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| knownFor |
designing early skyscrapers in New York City
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designing public buildings in New York City ⓘ designing the New York Times Building at Times Square ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
contribution to early skyscraper architecture in New York City
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design of major newspaper headquarters building in Times Square ⓘ |
| notableWork |
New York City public buildings
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New York Times Building ⓘ Times Square New York Times Building ⓘ
linked to:
One Times Square
early skyscrapers in New York City ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | New York City ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New York
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New York City ⓘ |
| workPeriod |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
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: Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz Description of subject: Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz was an American architect known for designing significant early skyscrapers and public buildings in New York City, including the New York Times Building at Times Square.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.