John Lewis
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John Lewis was a prominent American civil rights leader and longtime U.S. congressman known for his nonviolent activism, including his leadership in the Selma to Montgomery marches.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Lewis canonical | 30 |
| John Lewis (civil rights leader) | 1 |
| John Lewis was chairman of SNCC | 1 |
| John R. Lewis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T80364 — 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: John Lewis Context triple: [American civil rights movement, keyFigure, John Lewis]
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A.
Joseph T. Robinson
Joseph T. Robinson was an influential Arkansas Democratic politician who served as U.S. Senate Majority Leader and was the party’s vice-presidential nominee in 1928.
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B.
Martin Luther King Sr.
Martin Luther King Sr. was an influential African American Baptist minister and civil rights leader in Atlanta, and the father of Martin Luther King Jr.
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C.
Dexter Scott King
Dexter Scott King is an American civil rights activist, attorney, and the son of Martin Luther King Jr. who has worked to preserve and promote his father's legacy.
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D.
Benjamin A. Smith II
Benjamin A. Smith II was a Massachusetts politician and close friend of the Kennedy family who briefly served in the U.S. Senate before being succeeded by Edward M. Kennedy.
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E.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent American civil rights leader and Baptist minister who advocated nonviolent resistance to racial segregation and injustice.
- 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: John Lewis Target entity description: John Lewis was a prominent American civil rights leader and longtime U.S. congressman known for his nonviolent activism, including his leadership in the Selma to Montgomery marches.
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A.
Joseph T. Robinson
Joseph T. Robinson was an influential Arkansas Democratic politician who served as U.S. Senate Majority Leader and was the party’s vice-presidential nominee in 1928.
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B.
Martin Luther King Sr.
Martin Luther King Sr. was an influential African American Baptist minister and civil rights leader in Atlanta, and the father of Martin Luther King Jr.
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C.
Dexter Scott King
Dexter Scott King is an American civil rights activist, attorney, and the son of Martin Luther King Jr. who has worked to preserve and promote his father's legacy.
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D.
Benjamin A. Smith II
Benjamin A. Smith II was a Massachusetts politician and close friend of the Kennedy family who briefly served in the U.S. Senate before being succeeded by Edward M. Kennedy.
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E.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent American civil rights leader and Baptist minister who advocated nonviolent resistance to racial segregation and injustice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: John Lewis Description of subject: John Lewis was a prominent American civil rights leader and longtime U.S. congressman known for his nonviolent activism, including his leadership in the Selma to Montgomery marches.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
John Lewis was chairman of SNCC
subject surface form:
South-View Cemetery
subject surface form:
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
subject surface form:
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
subject surface form:
March (graphic novel trilogy)
subject surface form:
March (graphic novel trilogy)
this entity surface form:
John Lewis (civil rights leader)
subject surface form:
El Camino Memorial Park
this entity surface form:
John R. Lewis