George Kelham
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George Kelham was an American architect known for designing prominent early 20th-century buildings in San Francisco and other parts of California.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| George Kelham canonical | 1 |
| George W. Kelham | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4322281 — 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: George Kelham Context triple: [Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, buildingArchitectOfOriginal, George Kelham]
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A.
William Hulton
William Hulton was a British magistrate and landowner best known for ordering the yeomanry to arrest speakers at the 1819 Peterloo reform meeting, a decision that helped trigger the ensuing massacre.
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B.
William Lambton
William Lambton was a British army officer and surveyor best known for initiating and leading the early phases of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in the early 19th century.
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C.
Richard Laxton
Richard Laxton is a British film and television director known for his work on dramas such as the period film "Effie Gray."
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D.
Herbert Kilpin
Herbert Kilpin was an English footballer and manager best known as the founding father and first coach of Italian football club AC Milan.
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E.
William Jessop
William Jessop was a prominent 18th-century English civil engineer known for his influential work on canals, docks, and early railways during the Industrial Revolution.
- 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: George Kelham Target entity description: George Kelham was an American architect known for designing prominent early 20th-century buildings in San Francisco and other parts of California.
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A.
William Hulton
William Hulton was a British magistrate and landowner best known for ordering the yeomanry to arrest speakers at the 1819 Peterloo reform meeting, a decision that helped trigger the ensuing massacre.
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B.
William Lambton
William Lambton was a British army officer and surveyor best known for initiating and leading the early phases of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in the early 19th century.
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C.
Richard Laxton
Richard Laxton is a British film and television director known for his work on dramas such as the period film "Effie Gray."
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D.
Herbert Kilpin
Herbert Kilpin was an English footballer and manager best known as the founding father and first coach of Italian football club AC Milan.
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E.
William Jessop
William Jessop was a prominent 18th-century English civil engineer known for his influential work on canals, docks, and early railways during the Industrial Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architect
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Beaux-Arts architecture
ⓘ
linked to:
Beaux-Arts
Neoclassical architecture ⓘ early skyscraper architecture ⓘ |
| basedIn |
San Francisco, California
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | University of California (as supervising architect, various projects) ⓘ |
| familyName | Kelham ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | architecture ⓘ |
| genre |
civic buildings
ⓘ
commercial office buildings ⓘ university buildings ⓘ |
| givenName | George ⓘ |
| hasWorkIn |
Northern California
ⓘ
San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ Southern California ⓘ |
| notableFor |
campus planning and buildings at the University of California, Berkeley
ⓘ
designing prominent early 20th-century buildings in San Francisco ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Doe Memorial Library annex designs, University of California, Berkeley
ⓘ
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Building ⓘ Giannini Hall, University of California, Berkeley ⓘ Haviland Hall, University of California, Berkeley ⓘ International House, University of California, Berkeley ⓘ
linked to:
International House at UC Berkeley
Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley ⓘ McLaughlin Hall, University of California, Berkeley ⓘ Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company Building, San Francisco ⓘ San Francisco Civic Center buildings (various contributions) ⓘ
linked to:
Civic Center, San Francisco
San Francisco Municipal Railway Building (Muni Building) ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco Municipal Railway Building
San Francisco Public Library (main library, Civic Center) ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco Public Library
Shell Building, San Francisco ⓘ Southern Pacific Building, San Francisco ⓘ Standard Oil Building, San Francisco ⓘ University of California, Berkeley campus master plan ⓘ Wheeler Hall, University of California, Berkeley ⓘ
linked to:
Wheeler Hall (UC Berkeley)
|
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Berkeley, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Berkeley, California, United States
California ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Los Angeles, California ⓘ San Francisco, California ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco
|
How these facts were elicited
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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: George Kelham Description of subject: George Kelham was an American architect known for designing prominent early 20th-century buildings in San Francisco and other parts of California.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: George Kelham