Steinman
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Steinman is a surname most notably associated with David B. Steinman, an influential American civil engineer and bridge designer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steinman canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4259214 — 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: Steinman Context triple: [David B. Steinman, familyName, Steinman]
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A.
Stein
Stein is a German-origin surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as exploration, philosophy, literature, and politics.
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B.
Goldsman
Goldsman is the surname of Akiva Goldsman, an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for films such as "A Beautiful Mind."
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C.
Dick Stello
Dick Stello was a longtime Major League Baseball umpire who worked in both the National League and several World Series during his career.
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D.
Art Stevens
Art Stevens was an American animator and film director best known for his work on classic Walt Disney animated features in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Silverman
Silverman is a surname most prominently associated with American comedian, actress, and writer Sarah Silverman.
- 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: Steinman Target entity description: Steinman is a surname most notably associated with David B. Steinman, an influential American civil engineer and bridge designer.
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A.
Stein
Stein is a German-origin surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as exploration, philosophy, literature, and politics.
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B.
Goldsman
Goldsman is the surname of Akiva Goldsman, an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for films such as "A Beautiful Mind."
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C.
Dick Stello
Dick Stello was a longtime Major League Baseball umpire who worked in both the National League and several World Series during his career.
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D.
Art Stevens
Art Stevens was an American animator and film director best known for his work on classic Walt Disney animated features in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Silverman
Silverman is a surname most prominently associated with American comedian, actress, and writer Sarah Silverman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bridge designer
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civil engineer ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
bridge engineering
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civil engineering ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | David B. Steinman ⓘ |
| notableFor | design of large suspension bridges ⓘ |
| occupation |
bridge designer
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civil engineer ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage | English ⓘ |
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: Steinman Description of subject: Steinman is a surname most notably associated with David B. Steinman, an influential American civil engineer and bridge designer.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.