Theodore E. Thomson
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Theodore E. Thomson was an engineer and bridge designer best known for his work on New York City's 145th Street Bridge.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Theodore E. Thomson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1127818 — 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: Theodore E. Thomson Context triple: [145th Street Bridge, designedBy, Theodore E. Thomson]
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A.
Joseph C. Thompson
Joseph C. Thompson is an American arts administrator best known for leading the development and long-term growth of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) into a major contemporary art institution.
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B.
William C. Thompson
William C. Thompson was an American cinematographer best known for his work on low-budget genre films, including several directed by Ed Wood.
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C.
William A. Wheeler
William A. Wheeler was an American politician who served as the 19th vice president of the United States under President Rutherford B. Hayes.
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D.
Francis W. Sears
Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
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E.
William E. Nickerson
William E. Nickerson was a prominent benefactor and businessman associated with Boston University, for whom the university’s Nickerson Field stadium is named.
- 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: Theodore E. Thomson Target entity description: Theodore E. Thomson was an engineer and bridge designer best known for his work on New York City's 145th Street Bridge.
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A.
Joseph C. Thompson
Joseph C. Thompson is an American arts administrator best known for leading the development and long-term growth of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) into a major contemporary art institution.
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B.
William C. Thompson
William C. Thompson was an American cinematographer best known for his work on low-budget genre films, including several directed by Ed Wood.
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C.
William A. Wheeler
William A. Wheeler was an American politician who served as the 19th vice president of the United States under President Rutherford B. Hayes.
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D.
Francis W. Sears
Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
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E.
William E. Nickerson
William E. Nickerson was a prominent benefactor and businessman associated with Boston University, for whom the university’s Nickerson Field stadium is named.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bridge designer
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civil engineer ⓘ swing bridge ⓘ |
| connects |
Manhattan
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The Bronx ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| crosses | Harlem River ⓘ |
| designed | 145th Street Bridge ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
bridge engineering
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civil engineering ⓘ |
| knownFor | design of the 145th Street Bridge ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New York City
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New York State ⓘ |
| notableWork | 145th Street Bridge ⓘ |
| occupation |
bridge designer
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engineer ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Harlem River
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Manhattan ⓘ 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: Theodore E. Thomson Description of subject: Theodore E. Thomson was an engineer and bridge designer best known for his work on New York City's 145th Street Bridge.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.