Lew Harper
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Lew Harper is a hardboiled private detective character, famously portrayed by Paul Newman in a series of crime films adapted from Ross Macdonald’s novels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lew Harper canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4567681 — 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: Lew Harper Context triple: [The Drowning Pool, featuresCharacter, Lew Harper]
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A.
Harvey Shephard
Harvey Shephard is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest."
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B.
Robert Harper
Robert Harper was an 18th-century millwright and early settler whose establishment of a ferry and town at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers led to the community later known as Harpers Ferry, West Virginia being named in his honor.
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C.
Lew Hahn
Lew Hahn is a recording engineer known for his work on notable music projects such as the song "I'm Every Woman."
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D.
Joe Harper
Joe Harper is a minor character in Mark Twain's classic novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," known as one of Tom's close friends and fellow mischief-makers in the fictional town of St. Petersburg.
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E.
John Henshaw
John Henshaw is a British actor known for his character roles in film and television, including a prominent part in the Ken Loach-directed film "Looking for Eric."
- 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: Lew Harper Target entity description: Lew Harper is a hardboiled private detective character, famously portrayed by Paul Newman in a series of crime films adapted from Ross Macdonald’s novels.
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A.
Harvey Shephard
Harvey Shephard is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest."
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B.
Robert Harper
Robert Harper was an 18th-century millwright and early settler whose establishment of a ferry and town at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers led to the community later known as Harpers Ferry, West Virginia being named in his honor.
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C.
Lew Hahn
Lew Hahn is a recording engineer known for his work on notable music projects such as the song "I'm Every Woman."
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D.
Joe Harper
Joe Harper is a minor character in Mark Twain's classic novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," known as one of Tom's close friends and fellow mischief-makers in the fictional town of St. Petersburg.
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E.
John Henshaw
John Henshaw is a British actor known for his character roles in film and television, including a prominent part in the Ken Loach-directed film "Looking for Eric."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional private detective
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film character ⓘ |
| adaptedFromWorkBy | Ross Macdonald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Harper
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Drowning Pool NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre |
crime film
ⓘ
neo-noir ⓘ |
| basedOn | Lew Archer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWork |
The Drowning Pool (novel)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Moving Target NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterNameChangedFrom | Lew Archer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
cynical
ⓘ
wry sense of humor ⓘ |
| characterType | protagonist ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Ross Macdonald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmSeries | Harper film series ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Harper (1966 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | hardboiled detective fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Harper (1966 film)
NERFINISHED
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The Drowning Pool (1975 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | investigator ⓘ |
| notablePortrayal | Paul Newman as Lew Harper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Harper (1966 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Drowning Pool (1975 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | private detective ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Paul Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | California 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: Lew Harper Description of subject: Lew Harper is a hardboiled private detective character, famously portrayed by Paul Newman in a series of crime films adapted from Ross Macdonald’s novels.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.