Lewis Paine
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Lewis Paine (born Lewis Powell) was a Confederate sympathizer best known for his role in the 1865 conspiracy to assassinate U.S. government leaders alongside John Wilkes Booth.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lewis Paine canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5649886 — 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: Lewis Paine Context triple: [Lewis Powell, alsoKnownAs, Lewis Paine]
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A.
Raymond Paine
Raymond Paine is a fictional burlesque performer and comic character featured in the film "The Night They Raided Minsky's."
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B.
Douglas Pike
Douglas Pike was a prominent American diplomat and scholar known for his influential analyses of the Viet Cong and the Vietnam War.
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C.
John Dolman
John Dolman was an English clergyman and benefactor of the late 16th century best known for establishing Pocklington School in Yorkshire.
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D.
Lewis Evans
Lewis Evans was a British collector and historian of scientific instruments whose extensive collection led to the creation of Oxford’s Museum of the History of Science.
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E.
Paul Gilpin
Paul Gilpin is a cinematographer best known for his work on the adventure film "Tarzan and the Lost City."
- 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: Lewis Paine Target entity description: Lewis Paine (born Lewis Powell) was a Confederate sympathizer best known for his role in the 1865 conspiracy to assassinate U.S. government leaders alongside John Wilkes Booth.
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A.
Raymond Paine
Raymond Paine is a fictional burlesque performer and comic character featured in the film "The Night They Raided Minsky's."
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B.
Douglas Pike
Douglas Pike was a prominent American diplomat and scholar known for his influential analyses of the Viet Cong and the Vietnam War.
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C.
John Dolman
John Dolman was an English clergyman and benefactor of the late 16th century best known for establishing Pocklington School in Yorkshire.
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D.
Lewis Evans
Lewis Evans was a British collector and historian of scientific instruments whose extensive collection led to the creation of Oxford’s Museum of the History of Science.
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E.
Paul Gilpin
Paul Gilpin is a cinematographer best known for his work on the adventure film "Tarzan and the Lost City."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confederate sympathizer
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assassin ⓘ person ⓘ |
| affiliation | Confederate States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Lewis Paine
NERFINISHED
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Lewis Payne NERFINISHED ⓘ Lewis Powell NERFINISHED ⓘ Lewis Thornton Paine NERFINISHED ⓘ Lewis Thornton Powell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| attackDate | 1865-04-14 ⓘ |
| attackLocation | Seward residence, Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Lewis Thornton Powell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capturedDuring | American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | hanging ⓘ |
| coConspirator |
David Herold
NERFINISHED
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Edman Spangler NERFINISHED ⓘ George Atzerodt NERFINISHED ⓘ John Wilkes Booth NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Surratt NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael O’Laughlen NERFINISHED ⓘ Samuel Arnold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| convictedOf |
attempted murder of William H. Seward
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conspiracy to assassinate U.S. government leaders ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1844-04-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1865-07-07 ⓘ |
| dateOfExecution | 1865-07-07 ⓘ |
| escapedFrom | Union prisoner-of-war custody ⓘ |
| executedAt | Washington Arsenal Penitentiary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | execution by hanging ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
attempted assassination of U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward
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role in the 1865 conspiracy to assassinate U.S. government leaders ⓘ |
| occupation | soldier ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Abraham Lincoln assassination conspiracy
NERFINISHED
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plot organized by John Wilkes Booth ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Randolph County, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| raisedIn | Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Baptist ⓘ |
| servedAs | Confederate cavalryman ⓘ |
| sideInConflict | Confederacy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetOfAttack | William H. Seward NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trialHeldBy | U.S. military commission ⓘ |
| usedAlias |
Lewis Paine
NERFINISHED
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Lewis Payne 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: Lewis Paine Description of subject: Lewis Paine (born Lewis Powell) was a Confederate sympathizer best known for his role in the 1865 conspiracy to assassinate U.S. government leaders alongside John Wilkes Booth.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.