Lewis Sheridan Leary
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Lewis Sheridan Leary was an African American abolitionist and harnessmaker who joined John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry and was mortally wounded in the attack.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lewis Sheridan Leary canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2474296 — 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 Sheridan Leary Context triple: [John Brown’s raid of 1859, notableParticipant, Lewis Sheridan Leary]
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A.
John Requa
John Requa is an American screenwriter and director known for co-writing films such as "Bad Santa," "I Love You Phillip Morris," and "Jungle Cruise."
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B.
Eric Hilliard Nelson
Eric Hilliard "Ricky" Nelson was an American singer, musician, and actor who became a teen idol in the 1950s and 1960s, known for his rock and roll hits and his role on the television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."
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C.
John Dana Archbold
John Dana Archbold was a member of the prominent Archbold family, known primarily as a descendant of Standard Oil executive and philanthropist John Dustin Archbold.
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D.
Thomas Leroy
Thomas Leroy is the demanding and manipulative ballet director in the psychological thriller film "Black Swan."
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E.
Thomas McElwee
Thomas McElwee was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member from County Derry who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike.
- 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 Sheridan Leary Target entity description: Lewis Sheridan Leary was an African American abolitionist and harnessmaker who joined John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry and was mortally wounded in the attack.
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A.
John Requa
John Requa is an American screenwriter and director known for co-writing films such as "Bad Santa," "I Love You Phillip Morris," and "Jungle Cruise."
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B.
Eric Hilliard Nelson
Eric Hilliard "Ricky" Nelson was an American singer, musician, and actor who became a teen idol in the 1950s and 1960s, known for his rock and roll hits and his role on the television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."
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C.
John Dana Archbold
John Dana Archbold was a member of the prominent Archbold family, known primarily as a descendant of Standard Oil executive and philanthropist John Dustin Archbold.
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D.
Thomas Leroy
Thomas Leroy is the demanding and manipulative ballet director in the psychological thriller film "Black Swan."
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E.
Thomas McElwee
Thomas McElwee was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member from County Derry who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
African American
ⓘ
abolitionist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | wounds sustained during John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| dateOfDeath | 1859 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| movement | abolitionism ⓘ |
| notableFor | participation in John Brown's 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry ⓘ |
| occupation |
abolitionist
ⓘ
harnessmaker ⓘ |
| opposedTo | slavery in the United States ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
John Brown’s raid of 1859
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surface form:
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
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| placeOfDeath |
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
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surface form:
Harpers Ferry
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| wasMortallyWoundedIn |
John Brown’s raid of 1859
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surface form:
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
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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 Sheridan Leary Description of subject: Lewis Sheridan Leary was an African American abolitionist and harnessmaker who joined John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry and was mortally wounded in the attack.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.