Robert Smith
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Robert Smith was an 18th-century architect known for designing prominent colonial American buildings, including Nassau Hall at Princeton.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Smith canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T445787 — 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: Robert Smith Context triple: [Nassau Hall, architect, Robert Smith]
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A.
Mark Owen
Mark Owen is an English singer and songwriter best known as a member of the pop group Take That.
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B.
Tony James
Tony James is an American financier and executive best known as the longtime president and chief operating officer of Blackstone and for his leadership roles at major cultural institutions.
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C.
John Merrill
John Merrill was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential international architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
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D.
Teddy Riley
Teddy Riley is an American singer, songwriter, and producer widely credited with pioneering the new jack swing genre that fused R&B with hip-hop.
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E.
Jim James
Jim James is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the frontman of the rock band My Morning Jacket.
- 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: Robert Smith Target entity description: Robert Smith was an 18th-century architect known for designing prominent colonial American buildings, including Nassau Hall at Princeton.
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A.
Mark Owen
Mark Owen is an English singer and songwriter best known as a member of the pop group Take That.
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B.
Tony James
Tony James is an American financier and executive best known as the longtime president and chief operating officer of Blackstone and for his leadership roles at major cultural institutions.
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C.
John Merrill
John Merrill was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential international architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
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D.
Teddy Riley
Teddy Riley is an American singer, songwriter, and producer widely credited with pioneering the new jack swing genre that fused R&B with hip-hop.
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E.
Jim James
Jim James is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the frontman of the rock band My Morning Jacket.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architect
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human ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | Colonial America ⓘ |
| designed | Nassau Hall ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | architecture ⓘ |
| genre | colonial architecture ⓘ |
| notability | designed prominent colonial American buildings ⓘ |
| notableWork | Nassau Hall ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Princeton, New Jersey
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linked to:
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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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: Robert Smith Description of subject: Robert Smith was an 18th-century architect known for designing prominent colonial American buildings, including Nassau Hall at Princeton.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.