David Bates Douglass
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David Bates Douglass was a 19th-century American civil engineer and landscape designer known for his influential work on rural cemeteries and public grounds.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Bates Douglass canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1574119 — 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: David Bates Douglass Context triple: [Green-Wood Cemetery, designer, David Bates Douglass]
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A.
Lewis Henry Douglass
Lewis Henry Douglass was the eldest son of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, known for his service as a Union soldier in the Civil War and his work as a typesetter and activist in Washington, D.C.
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B.
Calvin Ellis Stowe
Calvin Ellis Stowe was an American biblical scholar and professor best known for his influential work in religious education and as the husband of author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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C.
Archibald Grimké
Archibald Grimké was an African American lawyer, journalist, and civil rights leader of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who played a key role in the early struggle against racial discrimination in the United States.
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D.
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was a formerly enslaved African American abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman whose autobiographies became foundational works in American and African American literature.
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E.
Wendell Phillips Garrison
Wendell Phillips Garrison was an American editor and author best known for his long tenure as literary editor of The Nation and for advancing the reformist and abolitionist legacy of his family.
- 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: David Bates Douglass Target entity description: David Bates Douglass was a 19th-century American civil engineer and landscape designer known for his influential work on rural cemeteries and public grounds.
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A.
Lewis Henry Douglass
Lewis Henry Douglass was the eldest son of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, known for his service as a Union soldier in the Civil War and his work as a typesetter and activist in Washington, D.C.
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B.
Calvin Ellis Stowe
Calvin Ellis Stowe was an American biblical scholar and professor best known for his influential work in religious education and as the husband of author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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C.
Archibald Grimké
Archibald Grimké was an African American lawyer, journalist, and civil rights leader of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who played a key role in the early struggle against racial discrimination in the United States.
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D.
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was a formerly enslaved African American abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman whose autobiographies became foundational works in American and African American literature.
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E.
Wendell Phillips Garrison
Wendell Phillips Garrison was an American editor and author best known for his long tenure as literary editor of The Nation and for advancing the reformist and abolitionist legacy of his family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American academic
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civil engineer ⓘ human ⓘ landscape designer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Yale University ⓘ |
| employer | United States Military Academy ⓘ |
| familyName | Douglass ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cemetery design
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civil engineering ⓘ landscape design ⓘ |
| genre | rural cemetery movement ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of American rural cemeteries
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landscape design of public parks and grounds in the United States ⓘ |
| knownFor |
design of public grounds in the 19th century United States
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influential work on rural cemeteries ⓘ |
| memberOf | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Green-Wood Cemetery
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design of public grounds ⓘ design of rural cemeteries ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil engineer
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educator ⓘ landscape architect ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor at the United States Military Academy ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New York
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surface form:
New York (state)
United States of America ⓘ |
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: David Bates Douglass Description of subject: David Bates Douglass was a 19th-century American civil engineer and landscape designer known for his influential work on rural cemeteries and public grounds.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Green-Wood Cemetery