David H. King Jr.
E524598
David H. King Jr. was a prominent late-19th-century New York City real estate developer and builder known for major projects including Madison Square Garden and upscale Harlem townhouses.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David H. King Jr. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2699848 — 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: David H. King Jr. Context triple: [Strivers’ Row, developer, David H. King Jr.]
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A.
Bradford M. Durfee
Bradford M. Durfee was a prominent local industrialist and philanthropist from Fall River, Massachusetts, for whom Durfee Hall was named in recognition of his contributions to the community.
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B.
Phillip A. Talbert
Phillip A. Talbert is a federal prosecutor who serves as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California.
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C.
Allen M. Davey
Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
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D.
Thomas E. Ackerman
Thomas E. Ackerman is an American cinematographer known for his work on popular films including the dark comedy-fantasy "Beetlejuice."
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E.
Alan S. Boyd
Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
- 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: David H. King Jr. Target entity description: David H. King Jr. was a prominent late-19th-century New York City real estate developer and builder known for major projects including Madison Square Garden and upscale Harlem townhouses.
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A.
Bradford M. Durfee
Bradford M. Durfee was a prominent local industrialist and philanthropist from Fall River, Massachusetts, for whom Durfee Hall was named in recognition of his contributions to the community.
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B.
Phillip A. Talbert
Phillip A. Talbert is a federal prosecutor who serves as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California.
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C.
Allen M. Davey
Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
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D.
Thomas E. Ackerman
Thomas E. Ackerman is an American cinematographer known for his work on popular films including the dark comedy-fantasy "Beetlejuice."
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E.
Alan S. Boyd
Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
builder
ⓘ
businessperson ⓘ real estate developer ⓘ |
| activeInPlace |
Harlem, Manhattan
ⓘ
linked to:
Harlem
New York City ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| businessRole |
builder
ⓘ
developer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | Gilded Age ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
construction
ⓘ
real estate development ⓘ |
| genre |
commercial architecture
ⓘ
residential architecture ⓘ |
| industry |
construction
ⓘ
real estate ⓘ |
| knownFor |
developing and building Madison Square Garden
ⓘ
developing upscale Harlem townhouses ⓘ |
| notability | prominent New York City real estate developer in the late 19th century ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Madison Square Garden (second Madison Square Garden)
ⓘ
linked to:
Madison Square Garden
New York City real estate developments ⓘ upscale Harlem townhouses ⓘ |
| occupation |
builder
ⓘ
contractor ⓘ real estate developer ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | New York State ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Harlem
ⓘ
Manhattan ⓘ |
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: David H. King Jr. Description of subject: David H. King Jr. was a prominent late-19th-century New York City real estate developer and builder known for major projects including Madison Square Garden and upscale Harlem townhouses.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.