Samuel Newsom
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Samuel Newsom was a prominent 19th-century American architect known for his ornate Victorian and Queen Anne–style buildings in California.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel Newsom canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3966071 — 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: Samuel Newsom Context triple: [Carson Mansion, architect, Samuel Newsom]
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A.
Philo Delano
Philo Delano was a member of the prominent Delano family, an American lineage known for its historical influence and connections to notable political figures.
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B.
William De Witt
William De Witt is a personal name borne by various individuals, most commonly associated with people of Dutch or American heritage.
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C.
Jonathan Hasbrouck
Jonathan Hasbrouck was an 18th-century New York landowner and militia officer whose house later served as George Washington’s Revolutionary War headquarters, now preserved as Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site.
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D.
Samuel Barron
Samuel Barron was a United States Navy officer who played a prominent command role in early 19th-century Mediterranean operations against the Barbary States.
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E.
Amasa Delano
Amasa Delano was an American sea captain and explorer best known for his 1817 memoir "A Narrative of Voyages and Travels," which inspired Herman Melville’s novella "Benito Cereno."
- 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: Samuel Newsom Target entity description: Samuel Newsom was a prominent 19th-century American architect known for his ornate Victorian and Queen Anne–style buildings in California.
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A.
Philo Delano
Philo Delano was a member of the prominent Delano family, an American lineage known for its historical influence and connections to notable political figures.
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B.
William De Witt
William De Witt is a personal name borne by various individuals, most commonly associated with people of Dutch or American heritage.
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C.
Jonathan Hasbrouck
Jonathan Hasbrouck was an 18th-century New York landowner and militia officer whose house later served as George Washington’s Revolutionary War headquarters, now preserved as Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site.
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D.
Samuel Barron
Samuel Barron was a United States Navy officer who played a prominent command role in early 19th-century Mediterranean operations against the Barbary States.
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E.
Amasa Delano
Amasa Delano was an American sea captain and explorer best known for his 1817 memoir "A Narrative of Voyages and Travels," which inspired Herman Melville’s novella "Benito Cereno."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American architect
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architect ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn | late 19th century ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Queen Anne
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Victorian ⓘ
linked to:
Victorian architecture
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| basedIn |
Oakland
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San Francisco ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | architecture ⓘ |
| genre |
Queen Anne architecture
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linked to:
Queen Anne Revival
Victorian architecture ⓘ |
| hasPartnershipWith | Joseph Cather Newsom ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Newsom & Newsom ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Queen Anne–style buildings in California
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ornate Victorian buildings in California ⓘ residential architecture in California ⓘ |
| notableWorkLocation |
Northern California
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San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
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| sibling | Joseph Cather Newsom ⓘ |
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: Samuel Newsom Description of subject: Samuel Newsom was a prominent 19th-century American architect known for his ornate Victorian and Queen Anne–style buildings in California.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.