Cecil Lewis
E569887
Cecil Lewis was a British writer and screenwriter recognized for his Academy Award-winning work in film.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cecil Lewis canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6100871 — 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: Cecil Lewis Context triple: [11th Academy Awards, bestScreenplayWinnerPerson, Cecil Lewis]
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A.
Cecil Williams
Cecil Williams is an American pastor and civil rights leader best known for his long-time leadership of Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco and his advocacy for social justice and the poor.
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B.
Cecil Reed
Cecil Reed was a party in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Reed v. Reed, which for the first time held that laws discriminating on the basis of sex violated the Equal Protection Clause.
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C.
Ernest Chambers
Ernest Chambers is a longtime Nebraska state senator and civil rights activist known for his outspoken advocacy on social justice, police reform, and the rights of marginalized communities.
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D.
Ernest Robinson
Ernest Robinson is one of the resourceful sons in Johann David Wyss’s classic adventure novel "The Swiss Family Robinson," known for his intelligence and scientific curiosity.
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E.
Reginald Bevins
Reginald Bevins was a British Conservative politician who held several ministerial posts in the mid-20th century, notably in Harold Macmillan’s government.
- 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: Cecil Lewis Target entity description: Cecil Lewis was a British writer and screenwriter recognized for his Academy Award-winning work in film.
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A.
Cecil Williams
Cecil Williams is an American pastor and civil rights leader best known for his long-time leadership of Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco and his advocacy for social justice and the poor.
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B.
Cecil Reed
Cecil Reed was a party in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Reed v. Reed, which for the first time held that laws discriminating on the basis of sex violated the Equal Protection Clause.
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C.
Ernest Chambers
Ernest Chambers is a longtime Nebraska state senator and civil rights activist known for his outspoken advocacy on social justice, police reform, and the rights of marginalized communities.
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D.
Ernest Robinson
Ernest Robinson is one of the resourceful sons in Johann David Wyss’s classic adventure novel "The Swiss Family Robinson," known for his intelligence and scientific curiosity.
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E.
Reginald Bevins
Reginald Bevins was a British Conservative politician who held several ministerial posts in the mid-20th century, notably in Harold Macmillan’s government.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Flying Corps officer
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aviator ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| authorOf | Sagittarius Rising ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Story ⓘ |
| conflict |
First World War
ⓘ
linked to:
World War I
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| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coWroteWith |
George Bernard Shaw
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W. P. Lipscomb ⓘ |
| employer | BBC ⓘ |
| familyName | Lewis ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiographical writing
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| givenName | Cecil ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Royal Flying Corps ⓘ |
| militaryRank | flying ace ⓘ |
| name | Cecil Lewis ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Pygmalion (1938 film)
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Sagittarius Rising ⓘ |
| occupation |
BBC television pioneer
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aviator ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television executive ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| subjectOf | First World War aviation literature ⓘ |
| wrote | Pygmalion (1938 film) ⓘ |
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: Cecil Lewis Description of subject: Cecil Lewis was a British writer and screenwriter recognized for his Academy Award-winning work in film.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.