Cram
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Cram is a surname most notably associated with Ralph Adams Cram, a prominent American architect known for his influential Gothic Revival designs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cram canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T635560 — 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: Cram Context triple: [Ralph Adams Cram, familyName, Cram]
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A.
Reedus
Reedus is the surname of American actor and model Norman Reedus, best known for his role as Daryl Dixon on the television series "The Walking Dead."
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B.
Hallidie
Hallidie is a surname most notably associated with Andrew Smith Hallidie, the 19th-century engineer credited with pioneering San Francisco’s cable car system.
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C.
Graduation
Graduation is Kanye West’s critically acclaimed 2007 studio album that blends hip hop with electronic and pop influences and features hits like “Stronger” and “Good Life.”
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D.
Caps
Caps is the common nickname for the Washington Capitals, a professional ice hockey team based in Washington, D.C., that competes in the NHL.
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E.
Crescere aude
Crescere aude is the Latin motto of Vanderbilt University, commonly translated as "Dare to grow," expressing the institution’s emphasis on intellectual and personal development.
- 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: Cram Target entity description: Cram is a surname most notably associated with Ralph Adams Cram, a prominent American architect known for his influential Gothic Revival designs.
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A.
Reedus
Reedus is the surname of American actor and model Norman Reedus, best known for his role as Daryl Dixon on the television series "The Walking Dead."
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B.
Hallidie
Hallidie is a surname most notably associated with Andrew Smith Hallidie, the 19th-century engineer credited with pioneering San Francisco’s cable car system.
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C.
Graduation
Graduation is Kanye West’s critically acclaimed 2007 studio album that blends hip hop with electronic and pop influences and features hits like “Stronger” and “Good Life.”
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D.
Caps
Caps is the common nickname for the Washington Capitals, a professional ice hockey team based in Washington, D.C., that competes in the NHL.
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E.
Crescere aude
Crescere aude is the Latin motto of Vanderbilt University, commonly translated as "Dare to grow," expressing the institution’s emphasis on intellectual and personal development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architect
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family name ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ theorist of architecture ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| coFounded | Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| designed |
Cathedral of St. John the Divine (New York, master plan and portions)
ⓘ
linked to:
Cathedral of Saint John the Divine
Princeton University collegiate Gothic buildings ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton University Chapel
many churches in the United States ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Boston Latin School ⓘ |
| employer | Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Gothic Revival architecture
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architecture ⓘ |
| genre |
architectural theory
ⓘ
religious writing ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Ralph Adams Cram ⓘ |
| influenced | 20th-century American ecclesiastical architecture ⓘ |
| influencedBy | medieval Gothic architecture ⓘ |
| movement | Gothic Revival ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Gothic Revival designs
ⓘ
collegiate architecture in the United States ⓘ ecclesiastical architecture ⓘ |
| occupation |
architect
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author ⓘ educator ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Concord, Massachusetts, United States
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linked to:
Concord, Massachusetts
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| placeOfDeath |
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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linked to:
Boston, Massachusetts
|
| religion | Anglo-Catholicism ⓘ |
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: Cram Description of subject: Cram is a surname most notably associated with Ralph Adams Cram, a prominent American architect known for his influential Gothic Revival designs.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.