Francis Lewis
E124521
Francis Lewis was a Welsh-born American merchant and statesman best known as one of the signers of the United States Declaration of Independence representing New York.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Francis Lewis canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1046130 — 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: Francis Lewis Context triple: [Flushing Cemetery, notableBurial, Francis Lewis]
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A.
John Carroll
John Carroll was an American Catholic clergyman who became the first bishop (and later archbishop) of the United States and a pioneering leader in establishing Catholic education and institutions in the new nation.
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B.
John Fenwick
John Fenwick was a 17th-century English Quaker colonist best known for leading and establishing one of the earliest Quaker settlements in what became southern New Jersey.
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C.
Joseph Gargan
Joseph Gargan was an American lawyer and political operative, a cousin and close associate of Senator Ted Kennedy who became known for his involvement in and later criticism of Kennedy’s actions surrounding the Chappaquiddick incident.
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D.
Edward Sorin
Edward Sorin was a 19th-century French Catholic priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross who established the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and played a central role in its early development.
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E.
Michael Augustine Corrigan
Michael Augustine Corrigan was a prominent 19th-century American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of New York and played a key role in the Church’s growth and organization in the United States.
- 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: Francis Lewis Target entity description: Francis Lewis was a Welsh-born American merchant and statesman best known as one of the signers of the United States Declaration of Independence representing New York.
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A.
John Carroll
John Carroll was an American Catholic clergyman who became the first bishop (and later archbishop) of the United States and a pioneering leader in establishing Catholic education and institutions in the new nation.
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B.
John Fenwick
John Fenwick was a 17th-century English Quaker colonist best known for leading and establishing one of the earliest Quaker settlements in what became southern New Jersey.
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C.
Joseph Gargan
Joseph Gargan was an American lawyer and political operative, a cousin and close associate of Senator Ted Kennedy who became known for his involvement in and later criticism of Kennedy’s actions surrounding the Chappaquiddick incident.
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D.
Edward Sorin
Edward Sorin was a 19th-century French Catholic priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross who established the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and played a central role in its early development.
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E.
Michael Augustine Corrigan
Michael Augustine Corrigan was a prominent 19th-century American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of New York and played a key role in the Church’s growth and organization in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Francis Lewis Description of subject: Francis Lewis was a Welsh-born American merchant and statesman best known as one of the signers of the United States Declaration of Independence representing New York.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Flushing Cemetery