Robert Lowry (hymn writer)
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Robert Lowry was a 19th-century American Baptist minister and prolific composer of gospel hymns, best known for writing classics such as “Shall We Gather at the River?” and “Low in the Grave He Lay (Christ Arose).”
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Lowry | 3 |
| Robert Lowry (author) | 1 |
| Robert Lowry (hymn writer) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4409275 — 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: Robert Lowry (hymn writer) Context triple: [Lowry, hasNotableBearer, Robert Lowry (hymn writer)]
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A.
Cecil Frances Alexander
Cecil Frances Alexander was a 19th-century Irish hymn writer best known for composing enduring Christian hymns such as "All Things Bright and Beautiful" and "Once in Royal David's City."
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B.
John H. Newton
John H. Newton was a senior United States Navy admiral who held high-level command roles in the Pacific theater during World War II.
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C.
Samuel Francis Smith
Samuel Francis Smith was a 19th-century American Baptist minister and poet best known for writing the patriotic hymn "My Country, 'Tis of Thee."
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D.
John Stafford Smith
John Stafford Smith was an English composer best known for writing the melody that later became the United States national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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E.
Randall Thompson
Randall Thompson was a prominent 20th-century American composer best known for his choral works, including the frequently performed piece "Alleluia."
- 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: Robert Lowry (hymn writer) Target entity description: Robert Lowry was a 19th-century American Baptist minister and prolific composer of gospel hymns, best known for writing classics such as “Shall We Gather at the River?” and “Low in the Grave He Lay (Christ Arose).”
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A.
Cecil Frances Alexander
Cecil Frances Alexander was a 19th-century Irish hymn writer best known for composing enduring Christian hymns such as "All Things Bright and Beautiful" and "Once in Royal David's City."
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B.
John H. Newton
John H. Newton was a senior United States Navy admiral who held high-level command roles in the Pacific theater during World War II.
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C.
Samuel Francis Smith
Samuel Francis Smith was a 19th-century American Baptist minister and poet best known for writing the patriotic hymn "My Country, 'Tis of Thee."
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D.
John Stafford Smith
John Stafford Smith was an English composer best known for writing the melody that later became the United States national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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E.
Randall Thompson
Randall Thompson was a prominent 20th-century American composer best known for his choral works, including the frequently performed piece "Alleluia."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Robert Lowry (hymn writer) Description of subject: Robert Lowry was a 19th-century American Baptist minister and prolific composer of gospel hymns, best known for writing classics such as “Shall We Gather at the River?” and “Low in the Grave He Lay (Christ Arose).”
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Robert Lowry (hymn writer)
linked to: Robert Lowry (hymn writer)
linked to: Robert Lowry (hymn writer)
linked to: Robert Lowry (hymn writer)