Robert Rowand Anderson
E170599
Robert Rowand Anderson was a prominent 19th-century Scottish architect known for his influential Gothic Revival designs and major restorations of historic buildings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Rowand Anderson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1483666 — 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: Robert Rowand Anderson Context triple: [St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, underwentRestorationBy, Robert Rowand Anderson]
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Raymond Unwin
Raymond Unwin was a prominent British town planner and architect renowned for pioneering humane, low-density urban design and helping shape the early 20th-century garden city and garden suburb movement.
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B.
Archibald Leitch
Archibald Leitch was a pioneering Scottish architect renowned for designing many of the United Kingdom’s most iconic early 20th-century football stadiums.
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C.
Lewis Cubitt
Lewis Cubitt was a 19th-century English architect best known for designing major London railway termini and related infrastructure.
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D.
Herbert Baker
Herbert Baker was a prominent British architect best known for his role in designing key government buildings in New Delhi during the British colonial period.
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E.
Richard Norman Shaw
Richard Norman Shaw was a prominent 19th-century British architect renowned for shaping the Queen Anne revival and influencing the development of late Victorian domestic architecture.
- 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: Robert Rowand Anderson Target entity description: Robert Rowand Anderson was a prominent 19th-century Scottish architect known for his influential Gothic Revival designs and major restorations of historic buildings.
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A.
Raymond Unwin
Raymond Unwin was a prominent British town planner and architect renowned for pioneering humane, low-density urban design and helping shape the early 20th-century garden city and garden suburb movement.
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B.
Archibald Leitch
Archibald Leitch was a pioneering Scottish architect renowned for designing many of the United Kingdom’s most iconic early 20th-century football stadiums.
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C.
Lewis Cubitt
Lewis Cubitt was a 19th-century English architect best known for designing major London railway termini and related infrastructure.
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D.
Herbert Baker
Herbert Baker was a prominent British architect best known for his role in designing key government buildings in New Delhi during the British colonial period.
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E.
Richard Norman Shaw
Richard Norman Shaw was a prominent 19th-century British architect renowned for shaping the Queen Anne revival and influencing the development of late Victorian domestic architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish architect
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architect ⓘ human ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Gothic Revival
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surface form:
Gothic Revival architecture
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| birthPlace | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity |
19th century
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early 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Scotland ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Scotland ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | Anderson ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
architecture
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ecclesiastical architecture ⓘ restoration architecture ⓘ |
| genre |
ecclesiastical architecture
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public architecture ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| influenced |
late 19th-century Scottish architecture
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younger Scottish architects ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Gothic Revival
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surface form:
Gothic Revival movement
medieval Scottish architecture ⓘ |
| knownFor |
design of churches and cathedrals
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design of public buildings in Scotland ⓘ design of university buildings ⓘ restoration of medieval churches ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Royal Institute of British Architects
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Royal Scottish Academy Building ⓘ
surface form:
Royal Scottish Academy
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| movement | Gothic Revival ⓘ |
| name | Robert Rowand Anderson self-link ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | helped establish professional architectural education in Scotland ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Gothic Revival designs
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restoration of historic buildings ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Central Hotel, Glasgow (now Grand Central Hotel)
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Glasgow Central railway station ⓘ
surface form:
Glasgow Central Station Hotel (architectural work associated)
McEwan Hall, University of Edinburgh ⓘ Mount Stuart House ⓘ
surface form:
Mount Stuart House (restoration and completion)
Scottish National Portrait Gallery ⓘ
surface form:
National Portrait Gallery of Scotland building
Scottish National Portrait Gallery ⓘ St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh ⓘ University of Edinburgh Medical School ⓘ
surface form:
University of Edinburgh Medical School, Teviot Place
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| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Professor of Architecture at the University of Edinburgh
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architect to the University of Edinburgh ⓘ |
| residence | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Edinburgh
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Scotland ⓘ |
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