John Homer Lowe
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John Homer Lowe was the husband of famed Hollywood actress and tap dancer Ruby Keeler, known primarily for his marriage to the 1930s musical film star.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Homer Lowe canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8941542 — 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: John Homer Lowe Context triple: [Ruby Keeler, spouse, John Homer Lowe]
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A.
Henry Ware Lawton
Henry Ware Lawton was a highly decorated U.S. Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient who served in multiple conflicts, including the Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish–American War, and ultimately the Philippine–American War, where he was killed in action.
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B.
Emory S. Land
Emory S. Land was a U.S. naval officer and engineer best known for overseeing submarine construction and serving as a key maritime administrator during World War II.
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C.
John Duff Lowe
John Duff Lowe is an English pianist best known for playing with The Quarrymen, the skiffle group that evolved into The Beatles.
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D.
Arthur Hoyt Scott
Arthur Hoyt Scott was an American businessman and horticulture enthusiast whose legacy in gardening and landscape design is commemorated by the Scott Arboretum at Swarthmore College.
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E.
Edward Porter Alexander
Edward Porter Alexander was a prominent Confederate general and artillery officer during the American Civil War, later known for his influential postwar memoirs and engineering work.
- 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: John Homer Lowe Target entity description: John Homer Lowe was the husband of famed Hollywood actress and tap dancer Ruby Keeler, known primarily for his marriage to the 1930s musical film star.
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A.
Henry Ware Lawton
Henry Ware Lawton was a highly decorated U.S. Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient who served in multiple conflicts, including the Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish–American War, and ultimately the Philippine–American War, where he was killed in action.
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B.
Emory S. Land
Emory S. Land was a U.S. naval officer and engineer best known for overseeing submarine construction and serving as a key maritime administrator during World War II.
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C.
John Duff Lowe
John Duff Lowe is an English pianist best known for playing with The Quarrymen, the skiffle group that evolved into The Beatles.
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D.
Arthur Hoyt Scott
Arthur Hoyt Scott was an American businessman and horticulture enthusiast whose legacy in gardening and landscape design is commemorated by the Scott Arboretum at Swarthmore College.
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E.
Edward Porter Alexander
Edward Porter Alexander was a prominent Confederate general and artillery officer during the American Civil War, later known for his influential postwar memoirs and engineering work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | person ⓘ |
| notableFor | marriage to Ruby Keeler ⓘ |
| spouse |
John Homer Lowe
ⓘ
Ruby Keeler ⓘ |
| spouseOfNotableWorkPeriod | 1930s musical films ⓘ |
| spouseOfOccupation |
actress
ⓘ
tap dancer ⓘ |
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: John Homer Lowe Description of subject: John Homer Lowe was the husband of famed Hollywood actress and tap dancer Ruby Keeler, known primarily for his marriage to the 1930s musical film star.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.