Henry Probasco
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Henry Probasco was a 19th-century Cincinnati businessman and philanthropist best known for donating the Tyler Davidson Fountain, a major civic landmark in the city.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Henry Probasco canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3548229 — 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 Probasco Context triple: [Spring Grove Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Henry Probasco]
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A.
Edwin Blashfield
Edwin Blashfield was an American muralist and painter best known for his large-scale allegorical works in prominent public buildings across the United States.
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B.
Milton Van Dyke
Milton Van Dyke was an influential American fluid dynamicist and author known for his classic works on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, including the widely used reference "An Album of Fluid Motion."
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C.
Frank Palko
Frank Palko was the criminal defendant at the center of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Palko v. Connecticut, which shaped the doctrine of selective incorporation of Bill of Rights protections to the states.
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D.
Joseph Gargan
Joseph Gargan was an American lawyer and political operative, a cousin and close associate of Senator Ted Kennedy who became known for his involvement in and later criticism of Kennedy’s actions surrounding the Chappaquiddick incident.
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E.
Georg Stanford Brown
Georg Stanford Brown is a Cuban-born American actor and director best known for his work in 1970s and 1980s film and television, including prominent roles in series like "The Rookies."
- 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 Probasco Target entity description: Henry Probasco was a 19th-century Cincinnati businessman and philanthropist best known for donating the Tyler Davidson Fountain, a major civic landmark in the city.
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A.
Edwin Blashfield
Edwin Blashfield was an American muralist and painter best known for his large-scale allegorical works in prominent public buildings across the United States.
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B.
Milton Van Dyke
Milton Van Dyke was an influential American fluid dynamicist and author known for his classic works on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, including the widely used reference "An Album of Fluid Motion."
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C.
Frank Palko
Frank Palko was the criminal defendant at the center of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Palko v. Connecticut, which shaped the doctrine of selective incorporation of Bill of Rights protections to the states.
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D.
Joseph Gargan
Joseph Gargan was an American lawyer and political operative, a cousin and close associate of Senator Ted Kennedy who became known for his involvement in and later criticism of Kennedy’s actions surrounding the Chappaquiddick incident.
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E.
Georg Stanford Brown
Georg Stanford Brown is a Cuban-born American actor and director best known for his work in 1970s and 1980s film and television, including prominent roles in series like "The Rookies."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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fountain ⓘ human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ public artwork ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
civic landmarks in Cincinnati
ⓘ
public art in Cincinnati ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| donatedBy | Henry Probasco ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Tyler Davidson ⓘ |
| hasRole | civic benefactor of Cincinnati ⓘ |
| inception | 19th century ⓘ |
| knownFor | donating the Tyler Davidson Fountain ⓘ |
| location |
Cincinnati, Ohio
ⓘ
linked to:
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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| namedAfter | Tyler Davidson ⓘ |
| notableWork | Tyler Davidson Fountain ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
philanthropist ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Cincinnati, Ohio
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linked to:
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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| residence |
Cincinnati, Ohio
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linked to:
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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| use |
civic landmark
ⓘ
public monument ⓘ |
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 Probasco Description of subject: Henry Probasco was a 19th-century Cincinnati businessman and philanthropist best known for donating the Tyler Davidson Fountain, a major civic landmark in the city.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
subject linked to:
Henry Probasco