Meade Lux Lewis
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Meade Lux Lewis was an influential American pianist and composer best known for helping popularize boogie-woogie music in the 1930s and 1940s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Meade Lux Lewis canonical | 14 |
| Anderson Meade Lewis | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2226783 — 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: Meade Lux Lewis Context triple: [From Spirituals to Swing concerts, featuredPerformer, Meade Lux Lewis]
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A.
Sam M. Lewis
Sam M. Lewis was an American lyricist best known for writing popular songs during the early 20th-century Tin Pan Alley era.
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B.
Philip M. Landrum
Philip M. Landrum was an American congressman from Georgia best known as a co-author of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (the Landrum–Griffin Act), which regulated labor unions and their internal affairs.
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C.
George W. Lewis
George W. Lewis was an American aerospace engineer and long-serving director of research at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), whose leadership significantly advanced early U.S. aeronautical research.
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D.
Leonard Franklin Slye
Leonard Franklin Slye, better known as Roy Rogers, was a hugely popular American singing cowboy actor and musician who became a Western film and television icon in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Thomas Lewis
Thomas Lewis was the husband of cosmetics entrepreneur Elizabeth Arden, a pioneering figure in the early 20th-century beauty industry.
- 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: Meade Lux Lewis Target entity description: Meade Lux Lewis was an influential American pianist and composer best known for helping popularize boogie-woogie music in the 1930s and 1940s.
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A.
Sam M. Lewis
Sam M. Lewis was an American lyricist best known for writing popular songs during the early 20th-century Tin Pan Alley era.
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B.
Philip M. Landrum
Philip M. Landrum was an American congressman from Georgia best known as a co-author of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (the Landrum–Griffin Act), which regulated labor unions and their internal affairs.
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C.
George W. Lewis
George W. Lewis was an American aerospace engineer and long-serving director of research at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), whose leadership significantly advanced early U.S. aeronautical research.
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D.
Leonard Franklin Slye
Leonard Franklin Slye, better known as Roy Rogers, was a hugely popular American singing cowboy actor and musician who became a Western film and television icon in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Thomas Lewis
Thomas Lewis was the husband of cosmetics entrepreneur Elizabeth Arden, a pioneering figure in the early 20th-century beauty industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Meade Lux Lewis Description of subject: Meade Lux Lewis was an influential American pianist and composer best known for helping popularize boogie-woogie music in the 1930s and 1940s.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.