Norman Foster
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Norman Foster was an American film and television director and actor active in Hollywood from the 1920s through the 1950s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Norman Foster canonical | 19 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5139555 — 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: Norman Foster Context triple: [Claudette Colbert, spouse, Norman Foster]
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Norman Foster
Norman Foster is a renowned British architect known for his high-tech, innovative designs such as London's Gherkin and the Reichstag dome in Berlin.
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B.
Richard Rogers
Richard Rogers was a renowned British architect celebrated for his high-tech, modernist designs, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Lloyd’s building in London.
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C.
David Chipperfield
David Chipperfield is a renowned British architect celebrated for his minimalist, modernist designs and influential cultural and civic projects worldwide.
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D.
Bernard Feilden
Bernard Feilden was a prominent British conservation architect renowned for his influential work on the preservation and restoration of historic buildings and monuments.
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E.
Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp
Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp is an Australian architecture firm known for its award-winning public and cultural buildings, including major gallery and museum projects.
- 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: Norman Foster Target entity description: Norman Foster was an American film and television director and actor active in Hollywood from the 1920s through the 1950s.
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A.
Norman Foster
Norman Foster is a renowned British architect known for his high-tech, innovative designs such as London's Gherkin and the Reichstag dome in Berlin.
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B.
Richard Rogers
Richard Rogers was a renowned British architect celebrated for his high-tech, modernist designs, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Lloyd’s building in London.
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C.
David Chipperfield
David Chipperfield is a renowned British architect celebrated for his minimalist, modernist designs and influential cultural and civic projects worldwide.
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D.
Bernard Feilden
Bernard Feilden was a prominent British conservation architect renowned for his influential work on the preservation and restoration of historic buildings and monuments.
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E.
Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp
Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp is an Australian architecture firm known for its award-winning public and cultural buildings, including major gallery and museum projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Norman Foster Description of subject: Norman Foster was an American film and television director and actor active in Hollywood from the 1920s through the 1950s.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
earlier non-musical State Fair (1933 film)
subject linked to:
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948 film)