Lewis Martin
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Lewis Martin was an American character actor best known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, including the classic science fiction movie "The War of the Worlds" (1953).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lewis Martin canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4471655 — 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 Martin Context triple: [The War of the Worlds (1953 film), starredActor, Lewis Martin]
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A.
Luke Martin
Luke Martin is a paralyzed Vietnam War veteran whose evolving relationship with a military wife in the film "Coming Home" explores the emotional and political fallout of the war.
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B.
Matthew Aldrich
Matthew Aldrich is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing Pixar’s Academy Award–winning animated film "Coco."
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C.
Stephen Glenn Martin
Stephen Glenn Martin is an American comedian, actor, writer, musician, and producer renowned for his stand-up comedy, film roles, and banjo performances.
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D.
Alex Martin
Alex Martin is an American actress and film producer best known as the daughter of acclaimed entertainer Whoopi Goldberg.
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E.
Alex Martin
Alex Martin is a determined and resourceful photojournalist who becomes one of the two main survivors struggling to endure a remote mountain wilderness after a plane crash in the film "The Mountain Between Us."
- 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 Martin Target entity description: Lewis Martin was an American character actor best known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, including the classic science fiction movie "The War of the Worlds" (1953).
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A.
Luke Martin
Luke Martin is a paralyzed Vietnam War veteran whose evolving relationship with a military wife in the film "Coming Home" explores the emotional and political fallout of the war.
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B.
Matthew Aldrich
Matthew Aldrich is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing Pixar’s Academy Award–winning animated film "Coco."
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C.
Stephen Glenn Martin
Stephen Glenn Martin is an American comedian, actor, writer, musician, and producer renowned for his stand-up comedy, film roles, and banjo performances.
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D.
Alex Martin
Alex Martin is an American actress and film producer best known as the daughter of acclaimed entertainer Whoopi Goldberg.
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E.
Alex Martin
Alex Martin is a determined and resourceful photojournalist who becomes one of the two main survivors struggling to endure a remote mountain wilderness after a plane crash in the film "The Mountain Between Us."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century American film
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20th-century American television ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction film ⓘ |
| hasRole | supporting actor ⓘ |
| knownFor |
supporting roles in mid-20th-century films
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supporting roles in mid-20th-century television ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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television ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAppearance | The War of the Worlds (1953 film) ⓘ |
| notableWork | The War of the Worlds (1953 film) ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| workPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
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 Martin Description of subject: Lewis Martin was an American character actor best known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, including the classic science fiction movie "The War of the Worlds" (1953).
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.