Lewis J. Boies
E497873
Lewis J. Boies was the third husband of Hollywood actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lewis J. Boies canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5139718 — 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: Lewis J. Boies Context triple: [Hedy Lamarr, spouse, Lewis J. Boies]
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A.
James E. Cheek
James E. Cheek was an American educator and theologian best known for serving as president of Howard University from 1969 to 1989.
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B.
Richard T. Rives
Richard T. Rives was a U.S. federal appellate judge known for his influential civil rights decisions during the mid-20th century, particularly in cases challenging racial segregation in the American South.
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C.
William C. Maxwell
William C. Maxwell was a U.S. Army Air Service officer and early military aviator honored posthumously for his service, for whom Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama is named.
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D.
Stanley Reed
Stanley Reed was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his generally conservative jurisprudence and frequent defense of governmental authority during the mid-20th century.
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E.
Walter Dellinger
Walter Dellinger was a prominent American constitutional law scholar and former acting U.S. Solicitor General known for his influential work in Supreme Court advocacy and legal academia.
- 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: Lewis J. Boies Target entity description: Lewis J. Boies was the third husband of Hollywood actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr.
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A.
James E. Cheek
James E. Cheek was an American educator and theologian best known for serving as president of Howard University from 1969 to 1989.
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B.
Richard T. Rives
Richard T. Rives was a U.S. federal appellate judge known for his influential civil rights decisions during the mid-20th century, particularly in cases challenging racial segregation in the American South.
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C.
William C. Maxwell
William C. Maxwell was a U.S. Army Air Service officer and early military aviator honored posthumously for his service, for whom Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama is named.
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D.
Stanley Reed
Stanley Reed was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his generally conservative jurisprudence and frequent defense of governmental authority during the mid-20th century.
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E.
Walter Dellinger
Walter Dellinger was a prominent American constitutional law scholar and former acting U.S. Solicitor General known for his influential work in Supreme Court advocacy and legal academia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the third husband of Hedy Lamarr ⓘ |
| notableWork | Hollywood films ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
film actress ⓘ inventor ⓘ |
| spouse |
Hedy Lamarr
ⓘ
linked to:
Hedy Kiesler Markey
Lewis J. Boies ⓘ |
| spouseOrder | third husband of Hedy Lamarr ⓘ |
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: Lewis J. Boies Description of subject: Lewis J. Boies was the third husband of Hollywood actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.