David E. Lewis
E506332
David E. Lewis is a screenwriter best known for his work on the acclaimed 1971 neo-noir thriller film "Klute."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David E. Lewis canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5234985 — 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: David E. Lewis Context triple: [Klute, writtenBy, David E. Lewis]
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A.
David Lewis
David Lewis was an American philosopher renowned for his influential work in metaphysics, especially modal realism and possible worlds semantics, as well as significant contributions to philosophy of language and mind.
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B.
Guy V. Lewis
Guy V. Lewis was a Hall of Fame college basketball coach best known for building the University of Houston into a national powerhouse, including the famed Phi Slama Jama teams and multiple Final Four appearances.
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C.
Gayne Rescher
Gayne Rescher was an American cinematographer known for his work on major films and television series, including the science fiction classic Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
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D.
Raymond Geuss
Raymond Geuss is a political philosopher known for his realist and historically grounded critique of liberalism and ideal theory, particularly through works like "The Idea of a Critical Theory" and "Outside Ethics."
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E.
Stephen Levinson
Stephen Levinson is an American television and film producer and talent manager best known for producing hit series like "Entourage" and "Ballers."
- 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: David E. Lewis Target entity description: David E. Lewis is a screenwriter best known for his work on the acclaimed 1971 neo-noir thriller film "Klute."
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A.
David Lewis
David Lewis was an American philosopher renowned for his influential work in metaphysics, especially modal realism and possible worlds semantics, as well as significant contributions to philosophy of language and mind.
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B.
Guy V. Lewis
Guy V. Lewis was a Hall of Fame college basketball coach best known for building the University of Houston into a national powerhouse, including the famed Phi Slama Jama teams and multiple Final Four appearances.
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C.
Gayne Rescher
Gayne Rescher was an American cinematographer known for his work on major films and television series, including the science fiction classic Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
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D.
Raymond Geuss
Raymond Geuss is a political philosopher known for his realist and historically grounded critique of liberalism and ideal theory, particularly through works like "The Idea of a Critical Theory" and "Outside Ethics."
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E.
Stephen Levinson
Stephen Levinson is an American television and film producer and talent manager best known for producing hit series like "Entourage" and "Ballers."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
neo-noir
ⓘ
thriller film ⓘ |
| knownFor | screenplay for the film "Klute" ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
"Klute"
ⓘ
linked to:
Klute
|
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1971 ⓘ |
| workedOn |
"Klute"
ⓘ
linked to:
Klute
|
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: David E. Lewis Description of subject: David E. Lewis is a screenwriter best known for his work on the acclaimed 1971 neo-noir thriller film "Klute."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.