Raymond Mathewson Hood
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Raymond Mathewson Hood was an influential early 20th-century American architect best known for his Art Deco skyscraper designs in New York City, including the Daily News Building and the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center.
All labels observed (1)
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| Raymond Mathewson Hood canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8749069 — 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: Raymond Mathewson Hood Context triple: [Hood, hasNotableBearer, Raymond Mathewson Hood]
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A.
Hugo Barnstead
Hugo Barnstead is a central character in the 1941 romantic comedy film "The Strawberry Blonde," portrayed as a brash, ambitious rival to the more easygoing protagonist.
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B.
John Haviland
John Haviland was a prominent 19th-century British-born American architect best known for pioneering radial-plan prison designs and influencing modern penitentiary architecture.
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C.
William Crosley
William Crosley was a 19th-century civil engineer known for his work on English canal projects, including the Macclesfield Canal.
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D.
Frank V. DuMond
Frank V. DuMond was an American painter and influential art instructor associated with the Art Students League of New York, known for his landscapes, portraits, and role in training many prominent artists.
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E.
Edwin Blashfield
Edwin Blashfield was an American muralist and painter best known for his large-scale allegorical works in prominent public buildings across the United States.
- 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: Raymond Mathewson Hood Target entity description: Raymond Mathewson Hood was an influential early 20th-century American architect best known for his Art Deco skyscraper designs in New York City, including the Daily News Building and the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center.
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A.
Hugo Barnstead
Hugo Barnstead is a central character in the 1941 romantic comedy film "The Strawberry Blonde," portrayed as a brash, ambitious rival to the more easygoing protagonist.
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B.
John Haviland
John Haviland was a prominent 19th-century British-born American architect best known for pioneering radial-plan prison designs and influencing modern penitentiary architecture.
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C.
William Crosley
William Crosley was a 19th-century civil engineer known for his work on English canal projects, including the Macclesfield Canal.
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D.
Frank V. DuMond
Frank V. DuMond was an American painter and influential art instructor associated with the Art Students League of New York, known for his landscapes, portraits, and role in training many prominent artists.
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E.
Edwin Blashfield
Edwin Blashfield was an American muralist and painter best known for his large-scale allegorical works in prominent public buildings across the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architect
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human ⓘ |
| activeIn | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1881-03-29 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1934-08-14 ⓘ |
| designed |
American Radiator Building
NERFINISHED
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Daily News Building NERFINISHED ⓘ McGraw-Hill Building NERFINISHED ⓘ RCA Building NERFINISHED ⓘ Rockefeller Center complex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brown University
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ École des Beaux-Arts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Hood & Howells
NERFINISHED
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Hood, Godley & Fouilhoux NERFINISHED ⓘ McKenzie, Voorhees & Gmelin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Hood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | architecture ⓘ |
| genre |
Art Deco architecture
NERFINISHED
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skyscraper design ⓘ |
| givenName | Raymond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | New York City skyline NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Art Deco skyscrapers in New York City
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design of the Daily News Building ⓘ design of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Raymond Mathewson Hood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | co-winner of the Chicago Tribune Tower design competition ⓘ |
| notableWork |
American Radiator Building
NERFINISHED
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Chicago Tribune Tower NERFINISHED ⓘ Daily News Building NERFINISHED ⓘ McGraw-Hill Building NERFINISHED ⓘ RCA Building NERFINISHED ⓘ Rockefeller Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Pawtucket, Rhode Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Stamford, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| style |
Art Deco
NERFINISHED
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Modern classicism ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Chicago
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Raymond Mathewson Hood Description of subject: Raymond Mathewson Hood was an influential early 20th-century American architect best known for his Art Deco skyscraper designs in New York City, including the Daily News Building and the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.