Guy V. Lewis
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Guy V. Lewis was a Hall of Fame college basketball coach best known for building the University of Houston into a national powerhouse, including the famed Phi Slama Jama teams and multiple Final Four appearances.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Guy V. Lewis canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4393877 — 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: Guy V. Lewis Context triple: [1968 "Game of the Century" vs UCLA at the Astrodome, coachHouston, Guy V. Lewis]
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A.
Sam M. Lewis
Sam M. Lewis was an American lyricist best known for writing popular songs during the early 20th-century Tin Pan Alley era.
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B.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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C.
Daniel L. Fapp
Daniel L. Fapp was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films, including the Oscar-winning West Side Story.
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D.
Robert L. Stewart
Robert L. Stewart is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Army brigadier general best known as one of the first astronauts to perform an untethered spacewalk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
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E.
Joel J. Richard
Joel J. Richard is a film composer best known for co-scoring high-octane action movies, including entries in the John Wick franchise.
- 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: Guy V. Lewis Target entity description: Guy V. Lewis was a Hall of Fame college basketball coach best known for building the University of Houston into a national powerhouse, including the famed Phi Slama Jama teams and multiple Final Four appearances.
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A.
Sam M. Lewis
Sam M. Lewis was an American lyricist best known for writing popular songs during the early 20th-century Tin Pan Alley era.
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B.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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C.
Daniel L. Fapp
Daniel L. Fapp was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films, including the Oscar-winning West Side Story.
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D.
Robert L. Stewart
Robert L. Stewart is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Army brigadier general best known as one of the first astronauts to perform an untethered spacewalk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
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E.
Joel J. Richard
Joel J. Richard is a film composer best known for co-scoring high-octane action movies, including entries in the John Wick franchise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hall of Fame coach
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college basketball coach ⓘ human ⓘ |
| almaMater | University of Houston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | NCAA Final Four appearance (coach) ⓘ |
| coachedPlayer |
Clyde Drexler
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Don Chaney NERFINISHED ⓘ Elvin Hayes NERFINISHED ⓘ Hakeem Olajuwon NERFINISHED ⓘ Larry Micheaux NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coachTenureEnd | 1986 ⓘ |
| coachTenureStart | 1956 ⓘ |
| collegeBasketballHallOfFameInductionYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| conflictParticipatedIn | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1922-03-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2015-11-26 ⓘ |
| employer | University of Houston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalFourAppearance |
1967
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1968 ⓘ 1982 ⓘ 1983 ⓘ 1984 ⓘ |
| fullName | Guy Vernon Lewis II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Guy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInduction |
College Basketball Hall of Fame
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInductionYear | 2013 ⓘ |
| headCoachOf | Houston Cougars men's basketball team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honor | Guy V. Lewis Development Facility named in his honor at University of Houston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| jerseyNumberAsPlayer | 21 ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Houston Cougars men's basketball team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Army Air Forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
built University of Houston into a national basketball powerhouse
ⓘ
led Houston to multiple NCAA Final Four appearances ⓘ |
| notableGameCoached | 1968 "Game of the Century" vs. UCLA in the Astrodome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfLosses | 279 ⓘ |
| numberOfWins | 592 ⓘ |
| occupation |
basketball coach
ⓘ
basketball player ⓘ |
| overallCollegeCoachingRecord | 592–279 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Arp, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | forward ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| teamNickname | Phi Slama Jama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Guy V. Lewis Description of subject: Guy V. Lewis was a Hall of Fame college basketball coach best known for building the University of Houston into a national powerhouse, including the famed Phi Slama Jama teams and multiple Final Four appearances.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.