Roger Lewis
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Roger Lewis is an American saxophonist best known as a founding member of the New Orleans–based Dirty Dozen Brass Band.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roger Lewis canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5135960 — 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: Roger Lewis Context triple: [The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, hasMember, Roger Lewis]
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A.
R. J. Lewis
R. J. Lewis is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the historical drama series "Spartacus: War of the Damned."
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B.
Ken Lewis
Ken Lewis is an American record producer, mixer, and multi-instrumentalist known for his work on numerous major hip-hop and pop albums.
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C.
Thomas Lewis
Thomas Lewis was the husband of cosmetics entrepreneur Elizabeth Arden, a pioneering figure in the early 20th-century beauty industry.
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D.
Roger Morris
Roger Morris was an 18th-century English architect associated with the Palladian style, known for designing notable country houses and villas.
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E.
H. Gregg Lewis
H. Gregg Lewis was an influential American labor economist known for his pioneering empirical work on labor supply, wage determination, and union effects on labor markets.
- 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: Roger Lewis Target entity description: Roger Lewis is an American saxophonist best known as a founding member of the New Orleans–based Dirty Dozen Brass Band.
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A.
R. J. Lewis
R. J. Lewis is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the historical drama series "Spartacus: War of the Damned."
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B.
Ken Lewis
Ken Lewis is an American record producer, mixer, and multi-instrumentalist known for his work on numerous major hip-hop and pop albums.
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C.
Thomas Lewis
Thomas Lewis was the husband of cosmetics entrepreneur Elizabeth Arden, a pioneering figure in the early 20th-century beauty industry.
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D.
Roger Morris
Roger Morris was an 18th-century English architect associated with the Palladian style, known for designing notable country houses and villas.
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E.
H. Gregg Lewis
H. Gregg Lewis was an influential American labor economist known for his pioneering empirical work on labor supply, wage determination, and union effects on labor markets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musician
ⓘ
person ⓘ saxophonist ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
ⓘ
21st century ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
New Orleans brass bands
ⓘ
linked to:
New Orleans music scene
|
| associatedWith |
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
ⓘ
linked to:
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
New Orleans music scene ⓘ |
| basedIn | New Orleans ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| foundingMemberOf |
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
ⓘ
linked to:
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
|
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
funk ⓘ jazz ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
ⓘ
linked to:
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
|
| musicalRole |
band member
ⓘ
soloist ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a founding member of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
ⓘ
saxophonist ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Louisiana ⓘ |
| playsInstrument |
baritone saxophone
ⓘ
soprano saxophone ⓘ tenor saxophone ⓘ |
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: Roger Lewis Description of subject: Roger Lewis is an American saxophonist best known as a founding member of the New Orleans–based Dirty Dozen Brass Band.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.