Lew Moran
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Lew Moran is a character in the 1965 survival drama film "The Flight of the Phoenix," serving as one of the stranded men struggling to endure after their plane crashes in the desert.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lew Moran canonical | 1 |
| co-pilot Lew Moran | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8810616 — 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: Lew Moran Context triple: [The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film), character, Lew Moran]
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A.
Lew Brown
Lew Brown was an American lyricist best known for his popular songs of the 1920s and 1930s, often written in collaboration with composers like Buddy DeSylva and Ray Henderson.
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B.
Cliff Hagan
Cliff Hagan is an American Hall of Fame basketball player best known for his scoring prowess with the St. Louis Hawks and later as a player-coach in the ABA.
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C.
Leon Barmore
Leon Barmore is a legendary women's college basketball coach best known for leading the Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters to national prominence and multiple NCAA championships.
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D.
Don Reed
Don Reed is a musician known for contributing as a featured artist on the country album "Tomorrow’s Sounds Today."
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E.
Robert McGuire
Robert McGuire is a musician best known for performing the opening theme of the American sitcom "The Drew Carey Show."
- 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: Lew Moran Target entity description: Lew Moran is a character in the 1965 survival drama film "The Flight of the Phoenix," serving as one of the stranded men struggling to endure after their plane crashes in the desert.
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A.
Lew Brown
Lew Brown was an American lyricist best known for his popular songs of the 1920s and 1930s, often written in collaboration with composers like Buddy DeSylva and Ray Henderson.
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B.
Cliff Hagan
Cliff Hagan is an American Hall of Fame basketball player best known for his scoring prowess with the St. Louis Hawks and later as a player-coach in the ABA.
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C.
Leon Barmore
Leon Barmore is a legendary women's college basketball coach best known for leading the Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters to national prominence and multiple NCAA championships.
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D.
Don Reed
Don Reed is a musician known for contributing as a featured artist on the country album "Tomorrow’s Sounds Today."
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E.
Robert McGuire
Robert McGuire is a musician best known for performing the opening theme of the American sitcom "The Drew Carey Show."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
1965 film The Flight of the Phoenix
ⓘ
linked to:
The Flight of the Phoenix
The Flight of the Phoenix ⓘ |
| associatedWith | crashed transport aircraft ⓘ |
| basedOn |
novel The Flight of the Phoenix
ⓘ
linked to:
The Flight of the Phoenix (novel)
|
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genreOfWork | survival drama film ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
one of the stranded survivors
ⓘ
supporting character ⓘ |
| occupation | navigator ⓘ |
| partOf | group of men struggling to survive ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | live-action film ⓘ |
| setting | Sahara Desert ⓘ |
| strandedAfter | plane crash in the desert ⓘ |
| themeOfWork |
cooperation under stress
ⓘ
survival ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1965 ⓘ |
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: Lew Moran Description of subject: Lew Moran is a character in the 1965 survival drama film "The Flight of the Phoenix," serving as one of the stranded men struggling to endure after their plane crashes in the desert.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Flight of the Phoenix
linked to: Lew Moran