Hugh Stubbins
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Hugh Stubbins was an American architect known for designing prominent modernist buildings such as the Citicorp Center in New York City.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hugh Stubbins canonical | 5 |
| Hugh Stubbins Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2953939 — 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: Hugh Stubbins Context triple: [Hugh Stubbins and Associates, namedAfter, Hugh Stubbins]
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A.
Hugh Stanbury
Hugh Stanbury is a central character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "He Knew He Was Right," depicted as an independent-minded journalist whose unconventional career and romantic choices challenge Victorian social norms.
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B.
Warwick Goble
Warwick Goble was a British illustrator best known for his early 20th-century book and magazine illustrations, particularly for fantasy, fairy tales, and science fiction works.
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C.
Anthony Peckham
Anthony Peckham is a South African–born screenwriter best known for scripting films such as "Invictus" and "Sherlock Holmes."
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D.
Stanley Arthurs
Stanley Arthurs was an American illustrator known for his historical and narrative paintings, particularly scenes of early American history, and as a prominent student of Howard Pyle.
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E.
Bertram Thomas
Bertram Thomas was a British civil servant and explorer best known for being the first Westerner to cross the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter) desert in the early 1930s.
- 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: Hugh Stubbins Target entity description: Hugh Stubbins was an American architect known for designing prominent modernist buildings such as the Citicorp Center in New York City.
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A.
Hugh Stanbury
Hugh Stanbury is a central character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "He Knew He Was Right," depicted as an independent-minded journalist whose unconventional career and romantic choices challenge Victorian social norms.
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B.
Warwick Goble
Warwick Goble was a British illustrator best known for his early 20th-century book and magazine illustrations, particularly for fantasy, fairy tales, and science fiction works.
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C.
Anthony Peckham
Anthony Peckham is a South African–born screenwriter best known for scripting films such as "Invictus" and "Sherlock Holmes."
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D.
Stanley Arthurs
Stanley Arthurs was an American illustrator known for his historical and narrative paintings, particularly scenes of early American history, and as a prominent student of Howard Pyle.
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E.
Bertram Thomas
Bertram Thomas was a British civil servant and explorer best known for being the first Westerner to cross the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter) desert in the early 1930s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American architect
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architect ⓘ human ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
American architecture
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modernist architecture in the United States ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| designed |
Citicorp Center
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Citicorp Center, New York City ⓘ
linked to:
Citicorp Center
|
| familyName | Stubbins ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | architecture ⓘ |
| genre | skyscraper design ⓘ |
| givenName | Hugh ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup |
White American
ⓘ
linked to:
Whites
|
| hasWorkType |
office building
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skyscraper ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| livedIn |
New York City
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| movement |
Modernism
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Modernist architecture ⓘ
linked to:
Modern architecture
|
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
designing Citicorp Center in New York City
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designing prominent modernist buildings ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Citicorp Center
ⓘ
Citicorp Center, New York City ⓘ
linked to:
Citicorp Center
Citigroup Center ⓘ
linked to:
Citicorp Center
prominent modernist buildings in the United States ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New York City
ⓘ
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: Hugh Stubbins Description of subject: Hugh Stubbins was an American architect known for designing prominent modernist buildings such as the Citicorp Center in New York City.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Hugh Stubbins