C. S. Lewis
E114149
Christian apologist
academic
children's writer
essayist
fantasy writer
human
literary scholar
novelist
university teacher
writer
C. S. Lewis was a British writer and scholar best known for his Christian apologetic works and the beloved fantasy series "The Chronicles of Narnia."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| C. S. Lewis canonical | 43 |
| Clive Staples Lewis | 2 |
| C. S. Lewis books | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T952750 — 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: C. S. Lewis Context triple: [Harper & Row, notableAuthorPublished, C. S. Lewis]
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A.
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien was an English writer, philologist, and academic best known as the author of the high-fantasy novels "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings."
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B.
T. H. White
T. H. White was a British author best known for his Arthurian fantasy series "The Once and Future King."
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C.
Alan Garner
Alan Garner is an English novelist renowned for his fantasy and children's literature rooted in folklore and the landscapes of Cheshire, particularly works like "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen" and "The Owl Service."
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D.
Robert May
Robert May was a prominent theoretical ecologist and mathematical biologist known for his influential work on population dynamics and the application of chaos theory to ecology.
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E.
Olaf Stapledon
Olaf Stapledon was a British philosopher and science fiction writer whose visionary cosmic-scale ideas, especially in works like "Star Maker," profoundly influenced later speculative concepts in astronomy and technology.
- 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: C. S. Lewis Target entity description: C. S. Lewis was a British writer and scholar best known for his Christian apologetic works and the beloved fantasy series "The Chronicles of Narnia."
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A.
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien was an English writer, philologist, and academic best known as the author of the high-fantasy novels "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings."
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B.
T. H. White
T. H. White was a British author best known for his Arthurian fantasy series "The Once and Future King."
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C.
Alan Garner
Alan Garner is an English novelist renowned for his fantasy and children's literature rooted in folklore and the landscapes of Cheshire, particularly works like "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen" and "The Owl Service."
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D.
Robert May
Robert May was a prominent theoretical ecologist and mathematical biologist known for his influential work on population dynamics and the application of chaos theory to ecology.
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E.
Olaf Stapledon
Olaf Stapledon was a British philosopher and science fiction writer whose visionary cosmic-scale ideas, especially in works like "Star Maker," profoundly influenced later speculative concepts in astronomy and technology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian apologist
ⓘ
academic ⓘ children's writer ⓘ essayist ⓘ fantasy writer ⓘ human ⓘ literary scholar ⓘ novelist ⓘ university teacher ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry, Oxford ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | renal failure ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| closeFriend | J. R. R. Tolkien ⓘ |
| conflictParticipatedIn | World War I ⓘ |
| convertedFrom | atheism ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1898-11-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1963-11-22 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Malvern College
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University College, Oxford ⓘ |
| employer |
Magdalen College, Oxford
NERFINISHED
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Magdalene College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Lewis ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Christian theology
ⓘ
fantasy fiction ⓘ literature ⓘ medieval and Renaissance literature ⓘ |
| fullName |
C. S. Lewis
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Clive Staples Lewis
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
Christian apologetics
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children's literature ⓘ fantasy ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| givenName |
Clive
ⓘ
Staples ⓘ |
| influenced | modern Christian apologetics ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
G. K. Chesterton
ⓘ
George MacDonald ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Inklings ⓘ |
| militaryService | British Army ⓘ |
| nickname | Jack ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Grief Observed
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Mere Christianity ⓘ Surprised by Joy ⓘ The Chronicles of Narnia film series ⓘ
surface form:
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Four Loves ⓘ The Great Divorce ⓘ the problem of pain ⓘ
surface form:
The Problem of Pain
The Screwtape Letters ⓘ The Space Trilogy ⓘ |
| occupation |
Christian apologist
ⓘ
literary critic ⓘ university professor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Belfast
ⓘ
surface form:
Belfast, Ireland
|
| placeOfDeath |
Oxford
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surface form:
Oxford, England
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| positionHeld |
Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University
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Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| sibling | Warren Hamilton Lewis ⓘ |
| spouse | Joy Davidman ⓘ |
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: C. S. Lewis Description of subject: C. S. Lewis was a British writer and scholar best known for his Christian apologetic works and the beloved fantasy series "The Chronicles of Narnia."
Referenced by (46)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Clive Staples Lewis
this entity surface form:
C. S. Lewis books
this entity surface form:
Clive Staples Lewis
subject surface form:
Joy Davidman
subject surface form:
Joy Davidman