copilot Robert A. Lewis
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Copilot Robert A. Lewis was the U.S. Army Air Forces officer who served as the co-pilot of the Enola Gay during the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| copilot Robert A. Lewis canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3564727 — 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: copilot Robert A. Lewis Context triple: [44-86292, crewPositionOnMission, copilot Robert A. Lewis]
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A.
Jack Swigert
Jack Swigert was an American astronaut, test pilot, and politician best known as the command module pilot of NASA’s ill-fated Apollo 13 lunar mission.
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B.
Captain Byron Hadley
Captain Byron Hadley is the brutal and corrupt chief prison guard in the film "The Shawshank Redemption," known for his violent enforcement of authority over inmates.
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C.
Charles Conrad
Charles "Pete" Conrad was an American astronaut, naval officer, and the third person to walk on the Moon.
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D.
John W. Young
John W. Young was a NASA astronaut, naval officer, and test pilot who flew on six space missions, walked on the Moon during Apollo 16, and later commanded the first Space Shuttle flight.
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E.
Commander Ernest Krause
Commander Ernest Krause is the fictional U.S. Navy officer portrayed by Tom Hanks in the World War II naval drama film "Greyhound," where he leads an Allied convoy across the Atlantic while under attack from German U-boats.
- 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: copilot Robert A. Lewis Target entity description: Copilot Robert A. Lewis was the U.S. Army Air Forces officer who served as the co-pilot of the Enola Gay during the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in World War II.
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A.
Jack Swigert
Jack Swigert was an American astronaut, test pilot, and politician best known as the command module pilot of NASA’s ill-fated Apollo 13 lunar mission.
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B.
Captain Byron Hadley
Captain Byron Hadley is the brutal and corrupt chief prison guard in the film "The Shawshank Redemption," known for his violent enforcement of authority over inmates.
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C.
Charles Conrad
Charles "Pete" Conrad was an American astronaut, naval officer, and the third person to walk on the Moon.
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D.
John W. Young
John W. Young was a NASA astronaut, naval officer, and test pilot who flew on six space missions, walked on the Moon during Apollo 16, and later commanded the first Space Shuttle flight.
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E.
Commander Ernest Krause
Commander Ernest Krause is the fictional U.S. Navy officer portrayed by Tom Hanks in the World War II naval drama film "Greyhound," where he leads an Allied convoy across the Atlantic while under attack from German U-boats.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army Air Forces officer
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human ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| aircraftCommanded |
B-29 Superfortress
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surface form:
B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay (as co-pilot)
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| aircraftTypeFlown | B-29 Superfortress ⓘ |
| allegiance |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Lewis ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
509th Composite Group
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United States Army Air Forces ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army Air Forces ⓘ |
| militaryRank | major ⓘ |
| notableEvent | flew as co-pilot on the first atomic bombing mission in history ⓘ |
| notableQuote | "My God, what have we done?" (attributed reaction to the Hiroshima bombing) ⓘ |
| notableWork | co-pilot of the Enola Gay on the Hiroshima mission ⓘ |
| occupation |
bomber pilot
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military aviator ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Manhattan Project
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surface form:
Manhattan Project operations
World War II ⓘ atomic bombing of Hiroshima ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Pacific Theater of Operations
ⓘ
Tinian ⓘ |
| positionHeld | co-pilot of the Enola Gay ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | co-pilot on the Enola Gay during the Hiroshima mission ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: copilot Robert A. Lewis Description of subject: Copilot Robert A. Lewis was the U.S. Army Air Forces officer who served as the co-pilot of the Enola Gay during the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in World War II.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.