Daniel Burnham
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Daniel Burnham was a prominent American architect and urban planner of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for leading the design of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and shaping the City Beautiful movement.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Daniel Burnham canonical | 31 |
| Daniel H. Burnham | 16 |
| Daniel Hudson Burnham | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10969 — 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.
Target entity: Daniel Burnham Context triple: [Union Station (Washington, D.C.), architect, Daniel Burnham]
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Calvert Vaux
Calvert Vaux was a 19th-century British-American architect and landscape designer best known for co-designing New York City's Central Park and contributing to many of its major public buildings and spaces.
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B.
Edward Durell Stone
Edward Durell Stone was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for his modernist yet ornamental designs on major public and cultural buildings.
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C.
Richard Morris Hunt
Richard Morris Hunt was a pioneering 19th-century American architect who helped introduce Beaux-Arts principles to the United States and designed many prominent public buildings and grand residences.
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D.
Robert Mills
Robert Mills was a prominent 19th-century American architect best known for designing major public monuments and buildings in the early United States.
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E.
Washington Roebling
Washington Roebling was an American civil engineer best known for overseeing the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, pioneering the use of steel-wire suspension and modern engineering techniques.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Daniel Burnham Target entity description: Daniel Burnham was a prominent American architect and urban planner of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for leading the design of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and shaping the City Beautiful movement.
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A.
Calvert Vaux
Calvert Vaux was a 19th-century British-American architect and landscape designer best known for co-designing New York City's Central Park and contributing to many of its major public buildings and spaces.
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B.
Edward Durell Stone
Edward Durell Stone was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for his modernist yet ornamental designs on major public and cultural buildings.
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C.
Richard Morris Hunt
Richard Morris Hunt was a pioneering 19th-century American architect who helped introduce Beaux-Arts principles to the United States and designed many prominent public buildings and grand residences.
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D.
Robert Mills
Robert Mills was a prominent 19th-century American architect best known for designing major public monuments and buildings in the early United States.
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E.
Washington Roebling
Washington Roebling was an American civil engineer best known for overseeing the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, pioneering the use of steel-wire suspension and modern engineering techniques.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architect
ⓘ
city planner ⓘ human ⓘ urban planner ⓘ |
| architectOf |
Chicago Cultural Center
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago Cultural Center (as Chicago Public Library)
Ellicott Square Building (Buffalo) ⓘ Field Museum of Natural History ⓘ
surface form:
Field Museum of Natural History (original design for the Columbian Exposition)
Fisher Building (Chicago) ⓘ Flatiron Building ⓘ Flatiron Building ⓘ
surface form:
Fuller Building (Flatiron Building) in New York City
Merchandise Mart preliminary concepts ⓘ Monadnock Building ⓘ People’s Gas Building (Chicago) ⓘ Railway Exchange Building (Chicago) ⓘ Reliance Building ⓘ Rookery Building remodeling ⓘ Santa Fe Building (Chicago) ⓘ Union Station (Pittsburgh) ⓘ Union Station ⓘ
surface form:
Union Station (Washington, D.C.)
World’s Columbian Exposition ⓘ
surface form:
World’s Columbian Exposition master plan
|
| authorOf | Plan of Chicago ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Graceland Cemetery ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Burnham and Root ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1846-09-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1912-06-01 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Chicago Public Schools
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago public schools
|
| employer |
Burnham and Root
ⓘ
Holabird & Roche ⓘ
surface form:
D. H. Burnham & Company
|
| familyName | Burnham ⓘ |
| givenName | Daniel ⓘ |
| hasMotto | Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood. ⓘ |
| influenced |
American urban planning
ⓘ
City Beautiful movement ⓘ
surface form:
City Beautiful movement in the United States
|
| influencedBy |
Beaux-Arts
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surface form:
Beaux-Arts architecture
neoclassical architecture ⓘ |
| knownFor |
leading the design of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition
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pioneering comprehensive city plans ⓘ shaping the City Beautiful movement ⓘ |
| movement | City Beautiful movement ⓘ |
| name |
Daniel Burnham
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Daniel Hudson Burnham
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| notableWork |
Plan of Baguio
ⓘ
Plan of Chicago ⓘ Plan of Manila ⓘ City Beautiful movement ⓘ
surface form:
Plan of Washington, D.C. improvements
World’s Columbian Exposition ⓘ |
| occupation |
architect
ⓘ
city planner ⓘ urban planner ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Henderson, New York
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Heidelberg
ⓘ
surface form:
Heidelberg, Germany
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| residence |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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surface form:
Chicago
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| role | Director of Works of the World’s Columbian Exposition ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago
New York City ⓘ Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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Subject: Daniel Burnham Description of subject: Daniel Burnham was a prominent American architect and urban planner of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for leading the design of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and shaping the City Beautiful movement.
Referenced by (53)
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