Sir David Lewis
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Sir David Lewis is a distinguished British figure and alumnus of Jesus College, Oxford, known for his prominent career in law and public service.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sir David Lewis canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5196212 — 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: Sir David Lewis Context triple: [Jesus College, Oxford, hasAlumni, Sir David Lewis]
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A.
Ken Lewis
Ken Lewis is an American record producer, mixer, and multi-instrumentalist known for his work on numerous major hip-hop and pop albums.
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B.
Sir Colin Dollery
Sir Colin Dollery was a prominent British clinical pharmacologist known for his influential work in drug safety, cardiovascular therapeutics, and the development of modern clinical pharmacology as a discipline.
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C.
John Clive
John Clive was a British actor and author known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in "The Italian Job" and voice work in "Yellow Submarine."
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D.
Martin Pugh
Martin Pugh is a British historian known for his influential works on modern British political and social history, including studies of the Labour Party, feminism, and interwar politics.
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E.
Rupert Hart-Davis
Rupert Hart-Davis was a prominent British publisher, editor, and biographer known for founding the publishing house Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd and for his influential role in mid-20th-century literary culture.
- 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: Sir David Lewis Target entity description: Sir David Lewis is a distinguished British figure and alumnus of Jesus College, Oxford, known for his prominent career in law and public service.
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A.
Ken Lewis
Ken Lewis is an American record producer, mixer, and multi-instrumentalist known for his work on numerous major hip-hop and pop albums.
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B.
Sir Colin Dollery
Sir Colin Dollery was a prominent British clinical pharmacologist known for his influential work in drug safety, cardiovascular therapeutics, and the development of modern clinical pharmacology as a discipline.
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C.
John Clive
John Clive was a British actor and author known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in "The Italian Job" and voice work in "Yellow Submarine."
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D.
Martin Pugh
Martin Pugh is a British historian known for his influential works on modern British political and social history, including studies of the Labour Party, feminism, and interwar politics.
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E.
Rupert Hart-Davis
Rupert Hart-Davis was a prominent British publisher, editor, and biographer known for founding the publishing house Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd and for his influential role in mid-20th-century literary culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British lawyer
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Jesus College, Oxford
NERFINISHED
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University of Oxford ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | law ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAlmaMater | Jesus College, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Sir ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
career in law
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public service ⓘ |
| occupation | lawyer ⓘ |
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: Sir David Lewis Description of subject: Sir David Lewis is a distinguished British figure and alumnus of Jesus College, Oxford, known for his prominent career in law and public service.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.