Alfred Preis
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Alfred Preis was an Austrian-born American architect best known for designing the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alfred Preis canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T193818 — 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: Alfred Preis Context triple: [USS Arizona Memorial, architect, Alfred Preis]
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A.
Alfred Winklmayr
Alfred Winklmayr is an Austrian ski instructor best known as Ivana Trump’s first husband, whom she reportedly married to obtain Austrian citizenship.
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B.
William Steinberg
William Steinberg was a renowned 20th-century German-American conductor celebrated for his precise, disciplined interpretations with major orchestras in the United States and Europe.
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C.
Herbert Blomstedt
Herbert Blomstedt is a renowned Swedish conductor celebrated for his interpretations of the Germanic symphonic repertoire and long associations with major orchestras such as the San Francisco Symphony and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
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D.
Daniel Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim is an acclaimed pianist and conductor renowned for leading major orchestras worldwide and for his peace-building musical initiatives, including co-founding the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra.
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E.
Franz Eckert
Franz Eckert was a German musician and composer known for arranging and influencing early modern national anthems in Japan and Korea.
- 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: Alfred Preis Target entity description: Alfred Preis was an Austrian-born American architect best known for designing the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
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A.
Alfred Winklmayr
Alfred Winklmayr is an Austrian ski instructor best known as Ivana Trump’s first husband, whom she reportedly married to obtain Austrian citizenship.
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B.
William Steinberg
William Steinberg was a renowned 20th-century German-American conductor celebrated for his precise, disciplined interpretations with major orchestras in the United States and Europe.
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C.
Herbert Blomstedt
Herbert Blomstedt is a renowned Swedish conductor celebrated for his interpretations of the Germanic symphonic repertoire and long associations with major orchestras such as the San Francisco Symphony and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
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D.
Daniel Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim is an acclaimed pianist and conductor renowned for leading major orchestras worldwide and for his peace-building musical initiatives, including co-founding the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra.
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E.
Franz Eckert
Franz Eckert was a German musician and composer known for arranging and influencing early modern national anthems in Japan and Korea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architect
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human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Pearl Harbor (interwar and early WWII)
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surface form:
Pearl Harbor
USS Arizona (BB-39) ⓘ
surface form:
USS Arizona
|
| basedIn |
Hawaii
ⓘ
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Honolulu
|
| countryOfBirth | Austria ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Austria
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| designed | USS Arizona Memorial ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Austrian ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | architecture ⓘ |
| immigratedTo | United States of America ⓘ |
| knownFor | designing the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor ⓘ |
| name | Alfred Preis self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Austrian-American ⓘ |
| notableFor | modernist architectural design in Hawaii ⓘ |
| notableWork | USS Arizona Memorial ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Vienna ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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surface form:
Honolulu
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| residence |
Hawaii
ⓘ
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Honolulu
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| workedOn | public architecture projects in Hawaii ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: Alfred Preis Description of subject: Alfred Preis was an Austrian-born American architect best known for designing the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.