Lowie
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Lowie is a surname most notably associated with Robert H. Lowie, an influential early 20th-century anthropologist known for his work on Native American cultures and social organization.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lowie canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5013982 — 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: Lowie Context triple: [Robert H. Lowie, familyName, Lowie]
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A.
Happy Lowman
Happy Lowman is a stoic, heavily tattooed enforcer and hitman for the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club in the television series "Sons of Anarchy."
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B.
Jozzy
Jozzy is a songwriter and producer known for crafting contemporary R&B and hip-hop tracks for prominent artists.
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C.
Jovie
Jovie is a cheerful and kind-hearted department store employee and Buddy's love interest in the Christmas comedy film "Elf."
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D.
Elvin
Elvin is a masculine given name most notably associated with Hall of Fame basketball player Elvin Hayes.
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E.
Lyle
Lyle is a masculine given name of English origin, often used as a first name or nickname.
- 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: Lowie Target entity description: Lowie is a surname most notably associated with Robert H. Lowie, an influential early 20th-century anthropologist known for his work on Native American cultures and social organization.
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A.
Happy Lowman
Happy Lowman is a stoic, heavily tattooed enforcer and hitman for the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club in the television series "Sons of Anarchy."
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B.
Jozzy
Jozzy is a songwriter and producer known for crafting contemporary R&B and hip-hop tracks for prominent artists.
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C.
Jovie
Jovie is a cheerful and kind-hearted department store employee and Buddy's love interest in the Christmas comedy film "Elf."
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D.
Elvin
Elvin is a masculine given name most notably associated with Hall of Fame basketball player Elvin Hayes.
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E.
Lyle
Lyle is a masculine given name of English origin, often used as a first name or nickname.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anthropologist
ⓘ
family name ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | anthropology ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
comparative study of kinship
ⓘ
theory of social organization in anthropology ⓘ |
| employer | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century anthropology ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cultural anthropology
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ethnology ⓘ social anthropology ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Franz Boas ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to kinship studies
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studies of Native American cultures ⓘ work on social organization ⓘ |
| memberOf | American Anthropological Association ⓘ |
| movement | Boasian anthropology ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Robert H. Lowie ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Culture and Ethnology
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Primitive Society ⓘ The Crow Indians ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
Crow people
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Native American kinship systems ⓘ Plains Indians ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage |
English
ⓘ
German ⓘ |
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: Lowie Description of subject: Lowie is a surname most notably associated with Robert H. Lowie, an influential early 20th-century anthropologist known for his work on Native American cultures and social organization.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.