Frederick Clarke Withers
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Frederick Clarke Withers was a 19th-century English-born American architect known for his influential Gothic Revival designs in the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Frederick Clarke Withers canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5174832 — 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: Frederick Clarke Withers Context triple: [Jefferson Market Library, architect, Frederick Clarke Withers]
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A.
Frederick Mills
Frederick Mills was a person significant enough in local or regional history that Mills County, Iowa, was named in his honor.
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B.
Frederick Etchells
Frederick Etchells was a British artist, architect, and translator best known for his involvement in the early 20th-century avant-garde, particularly the Vorticist movement.
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C.
George Maxwell Richards
George Maxwell Richards was a Trinidadian chemical engineer and academic who served as the fourth President of Trinidad and Tobago from 2003 to 2013.
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D.
James Waite Dickson
James Waite Dickson was the father of motion picture pioneer William Kennedy Laurie Dickson and a key early influence in his son's scientific and technical education.
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E.
Charles Gough
Charles Gough was an 18th-century British mariner whose reported sighting led to the later identification and naming of Gough Island in the South Atlantic.
- 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: Frederick Clarke Withers Target entity description: Frederick Clarke Withers was a 19th-century English-born American architect known for his influential Gothic Revival designs in the United States.
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A.
Frederick Mills
Frederick Mills was a person significant enough in local or regional history that Mills County, Iowa, was named in his honor.
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B.
Frederick Etchells
Frederick Etchells was a British artist, architect, and translator best known for his involvement in the early 20th-century avant-garde, particularly the Vorticist movement.
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C.
George Maxwell Richards
George Maxwell Richards was a Trinidadian chemical engineer and academic who served as the fourth President of Trinidad and Tobago from 2003 to 2013.
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D.
James Waite Dickson
James Waite Dickson was the father of motion picture pioneer William Kennedy Laurie Dickson and a key early influence in his son's scientific and technical education.
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E.
Charles Gough
Charles Gough was an 18th-century British mariner whose reported sighting led to the later identification and naming of Gough Island in the South Atlantic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-born American
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architect ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn | 19th century ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Gothic Revival architecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn |
New York City
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Newburgh, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1828-02-04 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1901-01-07 ⓘ |
| designed |
Chapel of the Good Shepherd (Roosevelt Island, New York City)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Garrison Union Free School NERFINISHED ⓘ Hudson River State Hospital NERFINISHED ⓘ Jefferson Market Courthouse NERFINISHED ⓘ Jefferson Market Prison NERFINISHED ⓘ Newburgh City Club (Newburgh, New York) NERFINISHED ⓘ Newburgh Free Library (Newburgh, New York) NERFINISHED ⓘ St. George’s Church (Newburgh, New York) rectory NERFINISHED ⓘ St. John’s Episcopal Church (Montgomery, New York) NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Luke’s Episcopal Church (Beacon, New York) NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (Poughkeepsie, New York) NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Thomas Episcopal Church (New Windsor, New York) NERFINISHED ⓘ Trinity Episcopal Church (Fishkill, New York) NERFINISHED ⓘ Vassar Brothers Institute building (Poughkeepsie, New York) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Calvert Vaux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Withers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | architecture ⓘ |
| fullName | Frederick Clarke Withers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
civic architecture
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ecclesiastical architecture ⓘ institutional architecture ⓘ |
| givenName | Frederick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Andrew Jackson Downing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movedTo | United States of America ⓘ |
| movement | Gothic Revival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality |
American
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British ⓘ |
| notableFor | Gothic Revival designs in the United States ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Chapel of the Good Shepherd (Roosevelt Island, New York City)
NERFINISHED
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Hudson River State Hospital NERFINISHED ⓘ Jefferson Market Courthouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Andrew Jackson Downing
NERFINISHED
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Calvert Vaux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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