Thomas P. Lowry
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Thomas P. Lowry is an American physician-turned-historian and author known for his research and publications on Civil War history and military records.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomas P Lowry | 1 |
| Thomas P. Lowry canonical | 1 |
| Thomas P. Lowry, M.D. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4409279 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas P. Lowry Context triple: [Lowry, hasNotableBearer, Thomas P. Lowry]
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Samuel E. Morss
Samuel E. Morss was an American newspaper editor and publisher active in the late 19th century, known for his influential role in Midwestern journalism.
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Frank B. Jewett
Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
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C.
Charles A. Platt
Charles A. Platt was an American architect and landscape designer known for his refined classical style and influential country house and garden designs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Alexander D. Langmuir
Alexander D. Langmuir was an influential American epidemiologist who helped shape modern disease surveillance and public health training in the United States.
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W. Burton Wescott
W. Burton Wescott was an early film industry figure best known as one of the founders of the pioneering color motion picture company Technicolor.
- 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: Thomas P. Lowry Target entity description: Thomas P. Lowry is an American physician-turned-historian and author known for his research and publications on Civil War history and military records.
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A.
Samuel E. Morss
Samuel E. Morss was an American newspaper editor and publisher active in the late 19th century, known for his influential role in Midwestern journalism.
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B.
Frank B. Jewett
Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
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C.
Charles A. Platt
Charles A. Platt was an American architect and landscape designer known for his refined classical style and influential country house and garden designs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Alexander D. Langmuir
Alexander D. Langmuir was an influential American epidemiologist who helped shape modern disease surveillance and public health training in the United States.
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E.
W. Burton Wescott
W. Burton Wescott was an early film industry figure best known as one of the founders of the pioneering color motion picture company Technicolor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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historian ⓘ person ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Beverly Lowry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | medical school in the United States ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American Civil War history
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United States military records ⓘ military history ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
individual soldiers’ experiences in the Civil War
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military legal proceedings during the Civil War ⓘ |
| genre |
Civil War studies
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military history literature ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasBibliographySize |
multiple published books
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numerous journal and magazine articles ⓘ |
| hasOccupationBackground | medicine ⓘ |
| hasWrittenForm |
Thomas P Lowry
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linked to:
Thomas P. Lowry
Thomas P. Lowry, M.D. ⓘ
linked to:
Thomas P. Lowry
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| laterCareer | full-time historical research ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
research in U.S. National Archives military records
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research on Civil War courts-martial ⓘ using primary archival sources in Civil War research ⓘ |
| notableWork |
book on Civil War courts-martial
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book on Union Army discipline and punishment ⓘ book on sexual behavior in the Civil War ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
historian ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
United States National Archives
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linked to:
National Archives and Records Administration
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| spouse | Beverly Lowry ⓘ |
| typeOfHistorian | social historian of the Civil War ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
Confederate Army
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linked to:
Confederate States Army
Union Army ⓘ military justice ⓘ social history of the Civil War ⓘ |
| writesFor |
general readers interested in military history
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specialist Civil War history audiences ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Thomas P. Lowry Description of subject: Thomas P. Lowry is an American physician-turned-historian and author known for his research and publications on Civil War history and military records.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Thomas P. Lowry
linked to: Thomas P. Lowry