Codman
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Codman is a surname most notably associated with Ogden Codman Jr., an influential American architect and interior decorator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Codman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5065459 — 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: Codman Context triple: [Ogden Codman Jr., familyName, Codman]
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A.
Witiges
Witiges was a 6th-century king of the Ostrogoths best known for leading the Gothic resistance against the Eastern Roman Empire during the Gothic War in Italy.
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B.
Ewing
Ewing is a surname most prominently associated with Hall of Fame basketball player and coach Patrick Ewing.
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C.
Neebe
Neebe is a surname most notably associated with Oscar Neebe, an American labor activist and one of the defendants in the 1886 Haymarket affair.
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D.
Virchow's angle
Virchow's angle is an anatomical measurement used in fetal ultrasound to assess cranial and facial development, named after the German pathologist Rudolf Virchow.
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E.
Hipple
Hipple is the birth surname of American film and television actor Hugh Marlowe.
- 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: Codman Target entity description: Codman is a surname most notably associated with Ogden Codman Jr., an influential American architect and interior decorator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
Witiges
Witiges was a 6th-century king of the Ostrogoths best known for leading the Gothic resistance against the Eastern Roman Empire during the Gothic War in Italy.
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B.
Ewing
Ewing is a surname most prominently associated with Hall of Fame basketball player and coach Patrick Ewing.
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C.
Neebe
Neebe is a surname most notably associated with Oscar Neebe, an American labor activist and one of the defendants in the 1886 Haymarket affair.
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D.
Virchow's angle
Virchow's angle is an anatomical measurement used in fetal ultrasound to assess cranial and facial development, named after the German pathologist Rudolf Virchow.
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E.
Hipple
Hipple is the birth surname of American film and television actor Hugh Marlowe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architect
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book ⓘ family name ⓘ interior decorator ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| author |
Edith Wharton
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Ogden Codman Jr. ⓘ |
| coAuthorWith | Edith Wharton ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1863-01-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1951-01-20 ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
domestic architecture
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interior design ⓘ |
| genre | interior design treatise ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| movement |
Beaux-Arts architecture
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linked to:
Beaux-Arts
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| notableBearer | Ogden Codman Jr. ⓘ |
| notableFor |
collaboration with Edith Wharton
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influence on American interior decoration in the late 19th century ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Decoration of Houses ⓘ |
| occupation |
architect
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interior decorator ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Newport, Rhode Island ⓘ |
| usedAs | last name ⓘ |
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: Codman Description of subject: Codman is a surname most notably associated with Ogden Codman Jr., an influential American architect and interior decorator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.