Ryan Lewis
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Ryan Lewis is an American music producer and DJ best known as half of the hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, creators of hits like "Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ryan Lewis canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5285462 — 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: Ryan Lewis Context triple: [Macklemore, collaboratedWith, Ryan Lewis]
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A.
Mitchell Lewis
Mitchell Lewis was an American film actor of the silent and early sound era, known for his rugged character roles in numerous dramas and adventure films.
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B.
Andy Lewis
Andy Lewis was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed 1971 crime thriller film "Klute."
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C.
Tyler Lewis
Tyler Lewis is an American basketball player known for his standout high school career and subsequent NCAA Division I play as a point guard.
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D.
Jason Lewis
Jason Lewis is an American actor and former fashion model best known for playing Samantha Jones’s younger boyfriend, Smith Jerrod, in the Sex and the City franchise.
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E.
Ben Lewis
Ben Lewis is a film editor known for his work on the classic musical "Strike Up the Band."
- 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: Ryan Lewis Target entity description: Ryan Lewis is an American music producer and DJ best known as half of the hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, creators of hits like "Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us."
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A.
Mitchell Lewis
Mitchell Lewis was an American film actor of the silent and early sound era, known for his rugged character roles in numerous dramas and adventure films.
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B.
Andy Lewis
Andy Lewis was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed 1971 crime thriller film "Klute."
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C.
Tyler Lewis
Tyler Lewis is an American basketball player known for his standout high school career and subsequent NCAA Division I play as a point guard.
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D.
Jason Lewis
Jason Lewis is an American actor and former fashion model best known for playing Samantha Jones’s younger boyfriend, Smith Jerrod, in the Sex and the City franchise.
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E.
Ben Lewis
Ben Lewis is a film editor known for his work on the classic musical "Strike Up the Band."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
DJ
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Macklemore
NERFINISHED
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grammy Award for Best New Artist
NERFINISHED
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Grammy Award for Best Rap Album NERFINISHED ⓘ Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance NERFINISHED ⓘ Grammy Award for Best Rap Song NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Seattle, Washington, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Eric Nally
NERFINISHED
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Grandmaster Caz NERFINISHED ⓘ Kool Moe Dee NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Lambert NERFINISHED ⓘ Melle Mel NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Dalton NERFINISHED ⓘ Wanz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
audio engineering
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music production ⓘ songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
hip hop
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pop rap ⓘ |
| givenName | Ryan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | digital audio workstation ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Macklemore & Ryan Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Ryan Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
The Heist
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
This Unruly Mess I’ve Made NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Can’t Hold Us
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Downtown NERFINISHED ⓘ Same Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Thrift Shop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
DJ
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audio engineer ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Macklemore LLC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInGroup |
DJ in Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
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producer in Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ⓘ |
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: Ryan Lewis Description of subject: Ryan Lewis is an American music producer and DJ best known as half of the hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, creators of hits like "Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis