Ralph Lewis
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Ralph Lewis was an American silent film actor best known for his prominent role in D. W. Griffith’s landmark 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ralph Lewis canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1140667 — 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: Ralph Lewis Context triple: [The Birth of a Nation, stars, Ralph Lewis]
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A.
Harold McLernon
Harold McLernon was a film editor known for his work on early sound-era movies, including the 1928 musical drama "The Singing Fool."
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B.
Clifton Daniel
Clifton Daniel was an American newspaper editor and managing editor of The New York Times, known also as the son-in-law of U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
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C.
Jeffrey Jones
Jeffrey Jones is an American character actor best known for his roles in films such as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Beetlejuice," and "Amadeus."
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D.
Roger Brown
Roger Brown was a professional basketball player best known for his scoring and rebounding in the American Basketball Association during the 1970s.
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E.
Ralph Riggs
Ralph Riggs was an American stage actor best known for his work in mid-20th-century Broadway musicals, including originating a role in the landmark Rodgers and Hammerstein show "Oklahoma!".
- 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: Ralph Lewis Target entity description: Ralph Lewis was an American silent film actor best known for his prominent role in D. W. Griffith’s landmark 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation."
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A.
Harold McLernon
Harold McLernon was a film editor known for his work on early sound-era movies, including the 1928 musical drama "The Singing Fool."
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B.
Clifton Daniel
Clifton Daniel was an American newspaper editor and managing editor of The New York Times, known also as the son-in-law of U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
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C.
Jeffrey Jones
Jeffrey Jones is an American character actor best known for his roles in films such as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Beetlejuice," and "Amadeus."
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D.
Roger Brown
Roger Brown was a professional basketball player best known for his scoring and rebounding in the American Basketball Association during the 1970s.
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E.
Ralph Riggs
Ralph Riggs was an American stage actor best known for his work in mid-20th-century Broadway musicals, including originating a role in the landmark Rodgers and Hammerstein show "Oklahoma!".
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ |
| activeIn | silent film era ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Hollywood ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| collaboratedWith | D. W. Griffith ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
D. W. Griffith (director)
ⓘ
linked to:
D. W. Griffith
|
| era | early 20th century cinema ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
acting
ⓘ
film acting ⓘ silent film acting ⓘ |
| genre | silent film ⓘ |
| hasNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn | The Birth of a Nation ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| notableFor | prominent role in The Birth of a Nation ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Birth of a Nation ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ |
| partOf | American silent cinema ⓘ |
| workedOn | The Birth of a Nation ⓘ |
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: Ralph Lewis Description of subject: Ralph Lewis was an American silent film actor best known for his prominent role in D. W. Griffith’s landmark 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.