Reginald C. Lewis
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Reginald C. Lewis was an American professional basketball player who starred for the Boston Celtics in the late 1980s and early 1990s before his career was tragically cut short by his sudden death.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Reginald C. Lewis canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T636313 — 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: Reginald C. Lewis Context triple: [Reggie Lewis, fullName, Reginald C. Lewis]
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Whitney Young
Whitney Young was a prominent American civil rights leader and longtime head of the National Urban League, known for his pragmatic, behind-the-scenes efforts to combat racial inequality and expand economic opportunities for Black Americans.
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B.
Joel Elias Spingarn
Joel Elias Spingarn was an American educator, literary critic, and civil rights activist who played a key leadership role in the early NAACP.
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C.
Josiah E. DuBois Jr.
Josiah E. DuBois Jr. was a U.S. Treasury Department lawyer and key Holocaust whistleblower whose efforts helped expose government inaction and led to the rescue of tens of thousands of Jews during World War II.
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D.
Roy Wilkins
Roy Wilkins was a prominent American civil rights leader and longtime NAACP executive director who played a central role in the mid-20th-century struggle for racial equality.
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E.
True W. Williams
True W. Williams was an illustrator known for providing the original illustrations for Mark Twain’s semi-autobiographical travel book "Roughing It."
- 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: Reginald C. Lewis Target entity description: Reginald C. Lewis was an American professional basketball player who starred for the Boston Celtics in the late 1980s and early 1990s before his career was tragically cut short by his sudden death.
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A.
Whitney Young
Whitney Young was a prominent American civil rights leader and longtime head of the National Urban League, known for his pragmatic, behind-the-scenes efforts to combat racial inequality and expand economic opportunities for Black Americans.
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B.
Joel Elias Spingarn
Joel Elias Spingarn was an American educator, literary critic, and civil rights activist who played a key leadership role in the early NAACP.
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C.
Josiah E. DuBois Jr.
Josiah E. DuBois Jr. was a U.S. Treasury Department lawyer and key Holocaust whistleblower whose efforts helped expose government inaction and led to the rescue of tens of thousands of Jews during World War II.
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D.
Roy Wilkins
Roy Wilkins was a prominent American civil rights leader and longtime NAACP executive director who played a central role in the mid-20th-century struggle for racial equality.
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E.
True W. Williams
True W. Williams was an illustrator known for providing the original illustrations for Mark Twain’s semi-autobiographical travel book "Roughing It."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
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: Reginald C. Lewis Description of subject: Reginald C. Lewis was an American professional basketball player who starred for the Boston Celtics in the late 1980s and early 1990s before his career was tragically cut short by his sudden death.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.