Lewis Clive
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Lewis Clive was a British Olympic gold-medalist rower and left-wing intellectual who became notable for volunteering and dying as an anti-fascist fighter in the Spanish Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lewis Clive canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T546973 — 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 Clive Context triple: [Clive, hasNotableBearer, Lewis Clive]
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A.
Colin Campbell
Colin Campbell was a British Army officer and field marshal best known for leading the relief of Lucknow and playing a key role in suppressing the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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B.
Robert Clive
Robert Clive was an 18th-century British officer and colonial administrator whose military and political actions were crucial in establishing British rule in India, particularly through his leadership in Bengal.
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C.
George Clive
George Clive was a British politician and barrister who served as a Member of Parliament in the 19th century.
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D.
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst was an 18th-century British Army officer and commander-in-chief in North America during the Seven Years' War, later criticized for his role in policies toward Indigenous peoples.
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E.
Lord Raglan
Lord Raglan was a British field marshal best known for commanding the British Army during the Crimean War, particularly at the Battle of Balaclava and the ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade.
- 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 Clive Target entity description: Lewis Clive was a British Olympic gold-medalist rower and left-wing intellectual who became notable for volunteering and dying as an anti-fascist fighter in the Spanish Civil War.
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A.
Colin Campbell
Colin Campbell was a British Army officer and field marshal best known for leading the relief of Lucknow and playing a key role in suppressing the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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B.
Robert Clive
Robert Clive was an 18th-century British officer and colonial administrator whose military and political actions were crucial in establishing British rule in India, particularly through his leadership in Bengal.
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C.
George Clive
George Clive was a British politician and barrister who served as a Member of Parliament in the 19th century.
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D.
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst was an 18th-century British Army officer and commander-in-chief in North America during the Seven Years' War, later criticized for his role in policies toward Indigenous peoples.
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E.
Lord Raglan
Lord Raglan was a British field marshal best known for commanding the British Army during the Crimean War, particularly at the Battle of Balaclava and the ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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Olympic gold medalist ⓘ anti-fascist ⓘ human ⓘ intellectual ⓘ rower ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| areaOfWork |
political writing
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social criticism ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| conflict | Spanish Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Clive ⓘ |
| givenName | Lewis ⓘ |
| hasCause | opposition to fascism ⓘ |
| hasMannerOfDeath | death in battle ⓘ |
| hasNotableRole |
Olympic rower
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anti-fascist fighter ⓘ |
| ideology | anti-fascism ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
history of British volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
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history of Olympic rowing ⓘ history of anti-fascism ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medal | Olympic gold medal ⓘ |
| movement | British left-wing intellectual milieu ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a British intellectual who took up arms against fascism
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dying in combat in Spain as a volunteer ⓘ fighting in the Spanish Civil War ⓘ rowing at the Olympic Games ⓘ |
| occupation |
rower
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soldier ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Spain
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | left-wing ⓘ |
| representedCountry | Great Britain ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sideInConflict |
Spanish Republicans
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surface form:
Republican faction (Spanish Civil War)
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| sport | rowing ⓘ |
| volunteeredFor | International Brigades ⓘ |
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: Lewis Clive Description of subject: Lewis Clive was a British Olympic gold-medalist rower and left-wing intellectual who became notable for volunteering and dying as an anti-fascist fighter in the Spanish Civil War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.