Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is a prominent American architecture and engineering firm renowned for designing major modernist and high-rise buildings worldwide.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20539 — 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, Owings & Merrill Context triple: [Millennium Park, architect, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill]
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Carnegie Corporation of New York
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- 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, Owings & Merrill Target entity description: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is a prominent American architecture and engineering firm renowned for designing major modernist and high-rise buildings worldwide.
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Perkins Coie
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University City Science Center
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C.
Carnegie
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Rockefeller Foundation
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- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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, Owings & Merrill Description of subject: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is a prominent American architecture and engineering firm renowned for designing major modernist and high-rise buildings worldwide.
Referenced by (94)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
SOM – Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
subject surface form:
Louis Skidmore