Skidmore
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American architect
architect
architecture firm
engineering firm
family name
multinational professional services firm
person
surname
Skidmore is a surname most notably associated with American architect Louis Skidmore, co-founder of the influential firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Skidmore canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1034194 — 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: Skidmore Context triple: [Louis Skidmore, familyName, Skidmore]
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A.
Colgate University
Colgate University is a private liberal arts college in Hamilton, New York, known for its rigorous academics, picturesque rural campus, and strong undergraduate focus.
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B.
Ithaca College
Ithaca College is a private liberal arts college known for its strong communications, music, and health sciences programs.
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C.
Union College
Union College is a private liberal arts college in Schenectady, New York, known as one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the United States.
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D.
Bard College
Bard College is a private liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, known for its progressive curriculum, strong arts programs, and emphasis on critical thinking and civic engagement.
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E.
Mount Saint Mary College
Mount Saint Mary College is a private liberal arts college located in Newburgh, New York, offering undergraduate and graduate programs in a range of professional and academic fields.
- 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: Skidmore Target entity description: Skidmore is a surname most notably associated with American architect Louis Skidmore, co-founder of the influential firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
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A.
Colgate University
Colgate University is a private liberal arts college in Hamilton, New York, known for its rigorous academics, picturesque rural campus, and strong undergraduate focus.
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B.
Ithaca College
Ithaca College is a private liberal arts college known for its strong communications, music, and health sciences programs.
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C.
Union College
Union College is a private liberal arts college in Schenectady, New York, known as one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the United States.
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D.
Bard College
Bard College is a private liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, known for its progressive curriculum, strong arts programs, and emphasis on critical thinking and civic engagement.
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E.
Mount Saint Mary College
Mount Saint Mary College is a private liberal arts college located in Newburgh, New York, offering undergraduate and graduate programs in a range of professional and academic fields.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American architect
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architect ⓘ architecture firm ⓘ engineering firm ⓘ family name ⓘ multinational professional services firm ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfHeadquarters | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
architecture
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structural engineering ⓘ urban planning ⓘ |
| hasFounder |
John Merrill
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Louis Skidmore ⓘ Nathaniel A. Owings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Louis Skidmore ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember | Louis Skidmore ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Skidmore ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Chicago
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linked to:
City of Chicago
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| notableWork |
Burj Khalifa
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John Hancock Center ⓘ One World Trade Center ⓘ Willis Tower ⓘ |
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: Skidmore Description of subject: Skidmore is a surname most notably associated with American architect Louis Skidmore, co-founder of the influential firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.