Richard A. Waite
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Richard A. Waite was a 19th-century architect known for designing prominent public buildings in North America, including major governmental structures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard A. Waite canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5731410 — 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 A. Waite Context triple: [Ontario Legislative Building, architect, Richard A. Waite]
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A.
Richard Levinson
Richard Levinson was an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the iconic detective series Columbo.
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B.
Timothy Carhart
Timothy Carhart is an American character actor known for his supporting roles in films and television series such as "Thelma & Louise," "Witness," and various crime and drama shows.
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C.
H. Craig Severance
H. Craig Severance was an American architect known for his prominent early 20th-century skyscraper designs in New York City.
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D.
John H. Rowe
John H. Rowe was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his influential research on Andean civilizations, particularly the Inca.
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E.
Ronald W. Browne
Ronald W. Browne is a film cinematographer best known for his work on the comedy western "Three Amigos."
- 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 A. Waite Target entity description: Richard A. Waite was a 19th-century architect known for designing prominent public buildings in North America, including major governmental structures.
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A.
Richard Levinson
Richard Levinson was an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the iconic detective series Columbo.
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B.
Timothy Carhart
Timothy Carhart is an American character actor known for his supporting roles in films and television series such as "Thelma & Louise," "Witness," and various crime and drama shows.
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C.
H. Craig Severance
H. Craig Severance was an American architect known for his prominent early 20th-century skyscraper designs in New York City.
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D.
John H. Rowe
John H. Rowe was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his influential research on Andean civilizations, particularly the Inca.
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E.
Ronald W. Browne
Ronald W. Browne is a film cinematographer best known for his work on the comedy western "Three Amigos."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architect
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human ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Neo-Romanesque
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surface form:
Romanesque Revival
Victorian architecture ⓘ |
| basedIn | Buffalo, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| designed |
Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Custom House, Quebec City NERFINISHED ⓘ Erie County and Buffalo City Hall (Old County Hall) NERFINISHED ⓘ Niagara County Courthouse NERFINISHED ⓘ Ontario Legislative Building NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Richard A. Waite architectural practice ⓘ |
| familyName | Waite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | architecture ⓘ |
| genre |
governmental architecture
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institutional architecture ⓘ public architecture ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| immigratedTo | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
design of governmental buildings
ⓘ
design of public buildings ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Buffalo Psychiatric Center
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane NERFINISHED ⓘ Custom House, Quebec City NERFINISHED ⓘ Erie County and Buffalo City Hall (Old County Hall) NERFINISHED ⓘ New York State Capitol NERFINISHED ⓘ Niagara County Courthouse NERFINISHED ⓘ Ontario Legislative Building NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | England ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Albany, New York
NERFINISHED
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Buffalo, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Quebec City, Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ Toronto, Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 A. Waite Description of subject: Richard A. Waite was a 19th-century architect known for designing prominent public buildings in North America, including major governmental structures.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.