Landis Gores House
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The Landis Gores House is a modernist residence in New Canaan, Connecticut, designed by architect Landis Gores and recognized as a key example of the Harvard Five’s influential mid-20th-century residential architecture.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Landis Gores House canonical | 2 |
| Cohen House (Chestnut Hill) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9607701 — 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: Landis Gores House Context triple: [Harvard Five houses, hasPart, Landis Gores House]
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A.
Eliot Noyes House
The Eliot Noyes House is a landmark mid-20th-century Modernist residence in New Canaan, Connecticut, designed by architect Eliot Noyes as part of the influential Harvard Five group’s experimental houses.
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B.
Pforzheimer House
Pforzheimer House is one of Harvard College’s twelve upperclass residential houses, providing housing, dining, and community life for undergraduate students.
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C.
Ladd-Gilman House
The Ladd-Gilman House is a historic 18th-century residence in Exeter, New Hampshire, notable for serving as the state treasury during the American Revolution and now forming part of the American Independence Museum.
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D.
Millard House
Millard House is a landmark early 20th-century residence in Pasadena, California, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and noted for its innovative textile-block construction.
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E.
David Tilden House
The David Tilden House is a historic colonial-era residence in Canton, Massachusetts, recognized for its architectural significance and role in the town’s early history.
- 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: Landis Gores House Target entity description: The Landis Gores House is a modernist residence in New Canaan, Connecticut, designed by architect Landis Gores and recognized as a key example of the Harvard Five’s influential mid-20th-century residential architecture.
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A.
Eliot Noyes House
The Eliot Noyes House is a landmark mid-20th-century Modernist residence in New Canaan, Connecticut, designed by architect Eliot Noyes as part of the influential Harvard Five group’s experimental houses.
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B.
Pforzheimer House
Pforzheimer House is one of Harvard College’s twelve upperclass residential houses, providing housing, dining, and community life for undergraduate students.
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C.
Ladd-Gilman House
The Ladd-Gilman House is a historic 18th-century residence in Exeter, New Hampshire, notable for serving as the state treasury during the American Revolution and now forming part of the American Independence Museum.
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D.
Millard House
Millard House is a landmark early 20th-century residence in Pasadena, California, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and noted for its innovative textile-block construction.
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E.
David Tilden House
The David Tilden House is a historic colonial-era residence in Canton, Massachusetts, recognized for its architectural significance and role in the town’s early history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
modernist residence
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single-family house ⓘ work of architecture ⓘ |
| architect | Landis Gores ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
International Style
ⓘ
Modernism ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Harvard Five
ⓘ
linked to:
Harvard Five houses
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| era | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext | postwar American suburban development ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
extensive glazing
ⓘ
flat or low-pitched roof ⓘ integration with landscape ⓘ open-plan interior ⓘ rectilinear volumes ⓘ strong indoor-outdoor connection ⓘ |
| hasMaterial |
glass
ⓘ
stone ⓘ wood ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Bauhaus modernism
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linked to:
Bauhaus movement
European modernist architecture ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Connecticut
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Fairfield County, Connecticut ⓘ New Canaan, Connecticut ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| partOf |
New Canaan modern houses
ⓘ
linked to:
New Canaan modern architecture movement
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| regionallySignificantIn | New England modern architecture ⓘ |
| significance |
important example of Harvard Five domestic work
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key example of mid-20th-century modern residential architecture ⓘ |
| usedFor | residential ⓘ |
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: Landis Gores House Description of subject: The Landis Gores House is a modernist residence in New Canaan, Connecticut, designed by architect Landis Gores and recognized as a key example of the Harvard Five’s influential mid-20th-century residential architecture.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Landis Gores House