Marianne McKenna
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Marianne McKenna is a prominent Canadian architect and founding partner of KPMB Architects, known for her influential work in cultural, educational, and civic architecture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marianne McKenna canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5945690 — 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: Marianne McKenna Context triple: [KPMB Architects, foundedBy, Marianne McKenna]
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A.
Martha Kearney
Martha Kearney is a British journalist and broadcaster best known as a prominent presenter on BBC radio and television, including flagship programmes such as Woman’s Hour and The World at One.
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B.
Catherine Callaghan
Catherine Callaghan was a linguist known for her influential work on Native American languages, particularly her research on and classification of the Utian language family.
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C.
Elizabeth McLaughlin
Elizabeth McLaughlin is an American actress known for her roles in television series such as the psychological drama "Hand of God."
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D.
Mary Cleary
Mary Cleary was the wife of Commodore John Barry, an early U.S. naval officer often called the "Father of the American Navy."
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E.
Martha Hennessy
Martha Hennessy is an American Catholic peace activist and granddaughter of Dorothy Day, known for her involvement in the Catholic Worker Movement and anti-nuclear protests.
- 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: Marianne McKenna Target entity description: Marianne McKenna is a prominent Canadian architect and founding partner of KPMB Architects, known for her influential work in cultural, educational, and civic architecture.
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A.
Martha Kearney
Martha Kearney is a British journalist and broadcaster best known as a prominent presenter on BBC radio and television, including flagship programmes such as Woman’s Hour and The World at One.
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B.
Catherine Callaghan
Catherine Callaghan was a linguist known for her influential work on Native American languages, particularly her research on and classification of the Utian language family.
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C.
Elizabeth McLaughlin
Elizabeth McLaughlin is an American actress known for her roles in television series such as the psychological drama "Hand of God."
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D.
Mary Cleary
Mary Cleary was the wife of Commodore John Barry, an early U.S. naval officer often called the "Father of the American Navy."
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E.
Martha Hennessy
Martha Hennessy is an American Catholic peace activist and granddaughter of Dorothy Day, known for her involvement in the Catholic Worker Movement and anti-nuclear protests.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architect
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person ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Ontario Association of Architects
NERFINISHED
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Royal Architectural Institute of Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Governor General’s Medal in Architecture
NERFINISHED
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Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ Ontario Association of Architects Award of Excellence NERFINISHED ⓘ Order of Canada ⓘ Royal Conservatory of Music Honorary Fellowship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Swarthmore College
NERFINISHED
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Yale School of Architecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | KPMB Architects NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
architecture
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civic architecture ⓘ cultural architecture ⓘ educational architecture ⓘ |
| genre |
modern architecture
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sustainable design ⓘ |
| hasPartInCollection | Canadian Centre for Architecture (projects documented) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | KPMB Architects NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Art Gallery of Hamilton renovation (as part of KPMB team)
NERFINISHED
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Canadian Embassy in Berlin interior architecture ⓘ Canadian Museum of Nature renovation (as part of KPMB team) NERFINISHED ⓘ Centennial College Progress Campus Library and Academic Facility (as part of KPMB team) NERFINISHED ⓘ George Brown College Waterfront Campus (as part of KPMB team) NERFINISHED ⓘ Glenn Gould Studio renovation (as part of KPMB team) NERFINISHED ⓘ Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate Winery NERFINISHED ⓘ Kitchener City Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ Koerner Hall, Toronto NERFINISHED ⓘ Manitoba Hydro Place (as part of KPMB team) NERFINISHED ⓘ National Ballet School of Canada expansion (as part of KPMB team) NERFINISHED ⓘ Remai Modern Art Gallery of Saskatchewan (as part of KPMB team) NERFINISHED ⓘ Rotman School of Management expansion, University of Toronto NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal Conservatory of Music expansion, Toronto NERFINISHED ⓘ TELUS Center for Performance and Learning NERFINISHED ⓘ Toronto Community Housing projects (as part of KPMB team) NERFINISHED ⓘ Trent University Environmental Sciences Building (as part of KPMB team) NERFINISHED ⓘ UBC Sauder School of Business Henry Angus Building renewal (as part of KPMB team) NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy (as part of KPMB team) NERFINISHED ⓘ Vaughan City Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
architect
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university teacher ⓘ |
| positionHeld | founding partner of KPMB Architects ⓘ |
| residence | Toronto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Toronto 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: Marianne McKenna Description of subject: Marianne McKenna is a prominent Canadian architect and founding partner of KPMB Architects, known for her influential work in cultural, educational, and civic architecture.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.