Arthur Lewis
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Arthur Lewis is a fictional character best known as the central figure in the thriller film "The Box," where he and his wife face a morally fraught choice after receiving a mysterious device.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Arthur Lewis canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8361614 — 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: Arthur Lewis Context triple: [Button, Button, mainCharacter, Arthur Lewis]
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A.
A. W. Phillips
A. W. Phillips was a New Zealand-born economist best known for formulating the relationship between unemployment and wage/price inflation that became known as the Phillips curve.
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John R. Hicks
John R. Hicks was a British economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his influential contributions to microeconomic theory, welfare economics, and the development of general equilibrium analysis.
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Nicholas Kaldor
Nicholas Kaldor was a prominent 20th-century Hungarian-British economist known for his influential contributions to growth theory, distribution, and economic policy, particularly within the post-Keynesian tradition.
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D.
Ragnar Nurkse
Ragnar Nurkse was an influential Estonian economist known for his work on development economics and the theory of balanced growth in poor countries.
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E.
James Meade
James Meade was a British economist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his influential work on international trade and economic policy.
- 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: Arthur Lewis Target entity description: Arthur Lewis is a fictional character best known as the central figure in the thriller film "The Box," where he and his wife face a morally fraught choice after receiving a mysterious device.
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A.
A. W. Phillips
A. W. Phillips was a New Zealand-born economist best known for formulating the relationship between unemployment and wage/price inflation that became known as the Phillips curve.
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B.
John R. Hicks
John R. Hicks was a British economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his influential contributions to microeconomic theory, welfare economics, and the development of general equilibrium analysis.
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C.
Nicholas Kaldor
Nicholas Kaldor was a prominent 20th-century Hungarian-British economist known for his influential contributions to growth theory, distribution, and economic policy, particularly within the post-Keynesian tradition.
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D.
Ragnar Nurkse
Ragnar Nurkse was an influential Estonian economist known for his work on development economics and the theory of balanced growth in poor countries.
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E.
James Meade
James Meade was an American military officer after whom Meade County in Kentucky was named, recognized for his service in the early 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Box ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
consequences of choice
ⓘ
moral dilemma ⓘ temptation ⓘ |
| basedOn | character from the short story "Button, Button" ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Richard Kelly ⓘ |
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfWork | Richard Kelly ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | thriller film ⓘ |
| hasChild | Walter Lewis ⓘ |
| hasDevice | mysterious box ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| moralConflict | must decide whether to press a button that will kill an unknown person ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| notableAction | considers pressing the button on the box ⓘ |
| occupation | engineer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | James Marsden ⓘ |
| residence | Richmond, Virginia ⓘ |
| spouse | Norma Lewis ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1970s ⓘ |
| worksAt | Langley Research Center ⓘ |
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: Arthur Lewis Description of subject: Arthur Lewis is a fictional character best known as the central figure in the thriller film "The Box," where he and his wife face a morally fraught choice after receiving a mysterious device.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.