Lewis Thornton Powell
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Lewis Thornton Powell was an American Confederate soldier and conspirator in the assassination plot against U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, best known for his failed attempt to murder Secretary of State William H. Seward.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lewis Thornton Powell canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5649884 — 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 Thornton Powell Context triple: [Lewis Powell, fullName, Lewis Thornton Powell]
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Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Lewis F. Powell Jr. was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1972–1987) known as a pivotal moderate whose swing votes shaped landmark decisions on issues such as abortion, affirmative action, and the death penalty.
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B.
Justice Stanley Reed
Justice Stanley Reed was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1938–1957) known for his generally moderate to conservative jurisprudence during the New Deal and early Cold War eras.
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C.
William Douglas
William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and influential landowner known for his political roles and extravagant lifestyle.
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D.
Paul G. Kirk
Paul G. Kirk is an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as interim U.S. Senator from Massachusetts following the death of Edward M. Kennedy.
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E.
Justice George Sutherland
Justice George Sutherland was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his conservative jurisprudence and influential role in the Court’s early 20th-century decisions limiting federal power.
- 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 Thornton Powell Target entity description: Lewis Thornton Powell was an American Confederate soldier and conspirator in the assassination plot against U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, best known for his failed attempt to murder Secretary of State William H. Seward.
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A.
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Lewis F. Powell Jr. was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1972–1987) known as a pivotal moderate whose swing votes shaped landmark decisions on issues such as abortion, affirmative action, and the death penalty.
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B.
Justice Stanley Reed
Justice Stanley Reed was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1938–1957) known for his generally moderate to conservative jurisprudence during the New Deal and early Cold War eras.
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C.
William Douglas
William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and influential landowner known for his political roles and extravagant lifestyle.
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D.
Paul G. Kirk
Paul G. Kirk is an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as interim U.S. Senator from Massachusetts following the death of Edward M. Kennedy.
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Justice George Sutherland
Justice George Sutherland was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his conservative jurisprudence and influential role in the Court’s early 20th-century decisions limiting federal power.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confederate soldier
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assassin ⓘ human ⓘ |
| allegiance | Confederate States of America ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Lewis Paine
NERFINISHED
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Lewis Payne NERFINISHED ⓘ Lewis Thornton Paine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| arrestedAt | Mary Surratt’s boarding house, Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| arrestedOn | 1865-04-17 ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1844-04-22 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Randolph County, Alabama, United States
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stewart County, Georgia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Arlington National Cemetery ⓘ |
| chargedWith |
attempted murder of William H. Seward
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conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| conspiredWith |
David Herold
NERFINISHED
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Edman Spangler NERFINISHED ⓘ George Atzerodt NERFINISHED ⓘ John Wilkes Booth NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Surratt NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael O’Laughlen NERFINISHED ⓘ Samuel Arnold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| convictedOf |
attempted assassination of William H. Seward
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conspiracy in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1865-07-07 ⓘ |
| executedAt | Washington Arsenal Penitentiary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Powell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | George C. Powell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Lewis Thornton Powell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | execution by hanging ⓘ |
| middleName | Thornton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Patience Caroline Powell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
attempted assassination of U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward
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participation in the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| occupation |
laborer
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soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Washington, D.C.
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surface form:
Washington, D.C., United States
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| religion | Baptist ⓘ |
| residence | Florida, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | private in the Confederate Army ⓘ |
| sentence | death by hanging ⓘ |
| targetedPerson | William H. Seward NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| triedBy | United States military commission NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Thornton Powell Description of subject: Lewis Thornton Powell was an American Confederate soldier and conspirator in the assassination plot against U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, best known for his failed attempt to murder Secretary of State William H. Seward.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.