Lew
E228438
Lew is a surname most prominently associated with Jack Lew, the former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lew canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2058112 — 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: Lew Context triple: [Jack Lew, familyName, Lew]
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A.
Lee
Lee is a given name shared by numerous individuals across different cultures and professions.
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B.
Lou
Lou is a character from the virtual reality co-op shooter game "After the Fall," set in a post-apocalyptic, frozen Los Angeles overrun by mutated creatures.
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C.
Lou
Lou is a common diminutive form of the given name Louise.
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D.
Lewis
"Lewis" is a notable film or television work featuring British actor Edward Fox, recognized as part of his distinguished acting career.
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E.
Lewis
Lewis is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across politics, civil rights, arts, and sports.
- 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: Lew Target entity description: Lew is a surname most prominently associated with Jack Lew, the former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
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A.
Lee
Lee is a given name shared by numerous individuals across different cultures and professions.
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B.
Lou
Lou is a character from the virtual reality co-op shooter game "After the Fall," set in a post-apocalyptic, frozen Los Angeles overrun by mutated creatures.
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C.
Lou
Lou is a common diminutive form of the given name Louise.
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D.
Lewis
"Lewis" is a notable film or television work featuring British actor Edward Fox, recognized as part of his distinguished acting career.
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E.
Lewis
Lewis is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across politics, civil rights, arts, and sports.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Barack Obama ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Georgetown University Law Center
ⓘ
Harvard College ⓘ
linked to:
Harvard University
|
| familyName | Lew ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
budget policy
ⓘ
economic policy ⓘ public administration ⓘ |
| fullName |
Jacob Joseph Lew
ⓘ
linked to:
Jack Lew
|
| givenName | Jacob ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party (United States)
ⓘ
linked to:
Democratic Party
|
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Jack Lew ⓘ |
| notableFor | serving as United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Barack Obama ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil servant
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources
ⓘ
Director of the Office of Management and Budget ⓘ United States Secretary of the Treasury ⓘ
linked to:
Secretary of the Treasury
White House Chief of Staff ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| usedBy | Jack Lew ⓘ |
| workLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Lew Description of subject: Lew is a surname most prominently associated with Jack Lew, the former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.