John Reid Jr.
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John Reid Jr. was an American architect known for designing prominent public buildings in San Francisco in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Reid Jr. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T143573 — 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: John Reid Jr. Context triple: [San Francisco Civic Auditorium, architect, John Reid Jr.]
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A.
Denis McDonough
Denis McDonough is an American political advisor who served as White House Chief of Staff under President Barack Obama.
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B.
John Sullivan
John Sullivan was an American general and political leader who played a prominent role in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
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Andrew Card
Andrew Card is an American politician and government official best known for serving as White House Chief of Staff under President George W. Bush.
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D.
Jonathan Corwin
Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Reid
Reid is a common Scottish and Irish surname that has been borne by numerous notable figures across fields such as science, politics, and the arts.
- 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: John Reid Jr. Target entity description: John Reid Jr. was an American architect known for designing prominent public buildings in San Francisco in the early 20th century.
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A.
Denis McDonough
Denis McDonough is an American political advisor who served as White House Chief of Staff under President Barack Obama.
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B.
John Sullivan
John Sullivan was an American general and political leader who played a prominent role in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
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C.
Andrew Card
Andrew Card is an American politician and government official best known for serving as White House Chief of Staff under President George W. Bush.
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D.
Jonathan Corwin
Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Reid
Reid is a common Scottish and Irish surname that has been borne by numerous notable figures across fields such as science, politics, and the arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architect
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human ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | architecture ⓘ |
| genre | public architecture ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | designing prominent public buildings in San Francisco in the early 20th century ⓘ |
| notableWork | public buildings in San Francisco ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | San Francisco ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| workLocation | San Francisco ⓘ |
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: John Reid Jr. Description of subject: John Reid Jr. was an American architect known for designing prominent public buildings in San Francisco in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.