Olmsted
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Olmsted is a surname most prominently associated with the American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and his family.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Olmsted canonical | 7 |
| Olmsted, Vaux & Co. partner William Rutherford Mead | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6915363 — 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: Olmsted Context triple: [Mary Cleveland Perkins Olmsted, familyName, Olmsted]
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A.
The Olmsted
The Olmsted is a residential building located along Manhattan’s Central Park West, named in honor of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
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B.
Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted was a pioneering 19th-century American landscape architect best known for designing major urban parks such as New York City's Central Park and Boston's Emerald Necklace.
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C.
Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. was a prominent American landscape architect and urban planner known for advancing his father's legacy through major park, conservation, and planning projects in the early 20th century.
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D.
David Olmsted
David Olmsted was a 19th-century American politician and early Minnesota settler who served as the first mayor of St. Paul and played a key role in the region’s early development.
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E.
Olmsted Brothers
Olmsted Brothers was a prominent American landscape architecture firm, founded by the sons of Frederick Law Olmsted, known for designing major estates, parks, and urban landscapes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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: Olmsted Target entity description: Olmsted is a surname most prominently associated with the American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and his family.
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A.
The Olmsted
The Olmsted is a residential building located along Manhattan’s Central Park West, named in honor of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
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B.
Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted was a pioneering 19th-century American landscape architect best known for designing major urban parks such as New York City's Central Park and Boston's Emerald Necklace.
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C.
Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. was a prominent American landscape architect and urban planner known for advancing his father's legacy through major park, conservation, and planning projects in the early 20th century.
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D.
David Olmsted
David Olmsted was a 19th-century American politician and early Minnesota settler who served as the first mayor of St. Paul and played a key role in the region’s early development.
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E.
Olmsted Brothers
Olmsted Brothers was a prominent American landscape architecture firm, founded by the sons of Frederick Law Olmsted, known for designing major estates, parks, and urban landscapes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family
ⓘ
person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| associatedWithCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| associatedWithField |
landscape architecture
ⓘ
landscape architecture ⓘ |
| category |
English-language surnames
ⓘ
occupational surnames ⓘ toponymic surnames ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| familyName |
Olmsted
ⓘ
Olmsted ⓘ Olmsted ⓘ |
| hasNotableFamily | Olmsted family ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpelling | Olmstead ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Olmsted family
ⓘ
Olmsted family ⓘ Olmsted family ⓘ |
| notableBearer |
Frederick Law Olmsted
ⓘ
Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. ⓘ John Charles Olmsted ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Frederick Law Olmsted
ⓘ
Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. ⓘ John Charles Olmsted ⓘ |
| occupation |
landscape architect
ⓘ
landscape architect ⓘ landscape architect ⓘ |
| usedAs | surname in the United States ⓘ |
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: Olmsted Description of subject: Olmsted is a surname most prominently associated with the American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and his family.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.