Frank Lobdell
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Frank Lobdell was an American painter known for his abstract and expressionist work and his association with the Bay Area Figurative Movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Frank Lobdell canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10134921 — 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: Frank Lobdell Context triple: [Bay Area Figurative Movement, hasParticipant, Frank Lobdell]
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A.
Charles Bulfinch
Charles Bulfinch was a prominent early American architect, often regarded as the first native-born professional architect in the United States, known for his influential Federal-style designs.
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B.
Robert Trumbull
Robert Trumbull was an American journalist and longtime foreign correspondent for The New York Times, known for his reporting from Asia and the Pacific during and after World War II.
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C.
Alfred B. Mullett
Alfred B. Mullett was a prominent 19th-century American architect who served as Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury and designed numerous notable federal buildings in the Second Empire style.
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D.
James Gamble Rogers
James Gamble Rogers was an American architect best known for designing many of Yale University's Collegiate Gothic buildings in the early 20th century.
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E.
Edwin Paxton Hood
Edwin Paxton Hood was a 19th-century English nonconformist preacher, lecturer, and prolific author known for his popular religious and biographical writings.
- 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: Frank Lobdell Target entity description: Frank Lobdell was an American painter known for his abstract and expressionist work and his association with the Bay Area Figurative Movement.
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A.
Charles Bulfinch
Charles Bulfinch was a prominent early American architect, often regarded as the first native-born professional architect in the United States, known for his influential Federal-style designs.
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B.
Robert Trumbull
Robert Trumbull was an American journalist and longtime foreign correspondent for The New York Times, known for his reporting from Asia and the Pacific during and after World War II.
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C.
Alfred B. Mullett
Alfred B. Mullett was a prominent 19th-century American architect who served as Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury and designed numerous notable federal buildings in the Second Empire style.
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D.
James Gamble Rogers
James Gamble Rogers was an American architect best known for designing many of Yale University's Collegiate Gothic buildings in the early 20th century.
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E.
Edwin Paxton Hood
Edwin Paxton Hood was a 19th-century English nonconformist preacher, lecturer, and prolific author known for his popular religious and biographical writings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artist
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expressionist painter ⓘ human ⓘ painter ⓘ |
| artisticStyle |
abstraction
ⓘ
expressionism ⓘ
linked to:
Expressionism
|
| continentOfCitizenship | North America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
painting
ⓘ
visual arts ⓘ |
| genre |
abstract painting
ⓘ
expressionist painting ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
Abstract art
ⓘ
Abstract expressionism ⓘ Bay Area Figurative Movement ⓘ |
| name | Frank Lobdell ⓘ |
| notableFor |
abstract and expressionist work
ⓘ
association with the Bay Area Figurative Movement ⓘ |
| occupation | painter ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| residence | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Frank Lobdell Description of subject: Frank Lobdell was an American painter known for his abstract and expressionist work and his association with the Bay Area Figurative Movement.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.