Richard Tomasetti
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Richard Tomasetti is a prominent structural engineer and co-founder of the international engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti, known for its work on complex and high-profile building projects.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Tomasetti canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3521367 — 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: Richard Tomasetti Context triple: [Thornton Tomasetti, foundedBy, Richard Tomasetti]
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A.
George Nolfi
George Nolfi is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for writing and directing the sci-fi romantic thriller "The Adjustment Bureau" and contributing to films like "Ocean's Twelve" and "The Bourne Ultimatum."
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B.
Michael Manfredi
Michael Manfredi is an American architect known for his innovative, context-sensitive designs and as a co-founder of the New York–based firm Weiss/Manfredi.
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C.
William Botti
William Botti is a video game industry figure best known as a co-founder of the game development studio Treyarch.
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D.
Greg D'Auria
Greg D'Auria is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science fiction film "Star Trek Beyond."
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E.
Roger de Lauria
Roger de Lauria was a renowned 13th-century admiral of the Crown of Aragon, celebrated for his decisive naval victories in the Mediterranean during the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
- 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: Richard Tomasetti Target entity description: Richard Tomasetti is a prominent structural engineer and co-founder of the international engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti, known for its work on complex and high-profile building projects.
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A.
George Nolfi
George Nolfi is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for writing and directing the sci-fi romantic thriller "The Adjustment Bureau" and contributing to films like "Ocean's Twelve" and "The Bourne Ultimatum."
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B.
Michael Manfredi
Michael Manfredi is an American architect known for his innovative, context-sensitive designs and as a co-founder of the New York–based firm Weiss/Manfredi.
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C.
William Botti
William Botti is a video game industry figure best known as a co-founder of the game development studio Treyarch.
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D.
Greg D'Auria
Greg D'Auria is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science fiction film "Star Trek Beyond."
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E.
Roger de Lauria
Roger de Lauria was a renowned 13th-century admiral of the Crown of Aragon, celebrated for his decisive naval victories in the Mediterranean during the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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company founder ⓘ structural engineer ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
complex structural engineering challenges
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international engineering projects ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Thornton Tomasetti ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| fieldOfWork | structural engineering ⓘ |
| hasEmployer | Thornton Tomasetti ⓘ |
| hasNotableAchievement | helped grow Thornton Tomasetti into an international firm ⓘ |
| hasSpecialization |
building design
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complex structures ⓘ high-rise structures ⓘ |
| industry | engineering ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Thornton Tomasetti
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work on complex building projects ⓘ work on high-profile building projects ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Society of Civil Engineers
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structural engineering professional organizations ⓘ |
| name | Richard Tomasetti self-link ⓘ |
| notableRole | leader at Thornton Tomasetti ⓘ |
| occupation | structural engineer ⓘ |
| sector | private sector ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Richard Tomasetti Description of subject: Richard Tomasetti is a prominent structural engineer and co-founder of the international engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti, known for its work on complex and high-profile building projects.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.