Clarence Irving Lewis
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Clarence Irving Lewis was an influential American philosopher and logician known for his work on modal logic, pragmatism, and the theory of knowledge.
All labels observed (1)
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| Clarence Irving Lewis canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T648182 — 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: Clarence Irving Lewis Context triple: [Willard Van Orman Quine, doctoralAdvisor, Clarence Irving Lewis]
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Henry Drummond Wolff
Henry Drummond Wolff was a British Conservative politician and diplomat of the late 19th century, noted for his role in party politics and foreign service.
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B.
William P. Frye
William P. Frye was an American politician and long-serving U.S. Senator from Maine who played a prominent role in late 19th- and early 20th-century national politics.
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C.
Irving Babbitt
Irving Babbitt was an American literary critic and humanist whose advocacy of classical restraint, moral realism, and the "New Humanism" movement deeply shaped 20th-century conservative thought.
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D.
Roscoe Pound
Roscoe Pound was an influential American legal scholar and educator, best known for developing the theory of sociological jurisprudence and serving as dean of Harvard Law School.
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E.
Roger Nash Baldwin
Roger Nash Baldwin was an American civil liberties advocate and social reformer best known as a principal founder and long-time leader of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
- 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: Clarence Irving Lewis Target entity description: Clarence Irving Lewis was an influential American philosopher and logician known for his work on modal logic, pragmatism, and the theory of knowledge.
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A.
Henry Drummond Wolff
Henry Drummond Wolff was a British Conservative politician and diplomat of the late 19th century, noted for his role in party politics and foreign service.
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B.
William P. Frye
William P. Frye was an American politician and long-serving U.S. Senator from Maine who played a prominent role in late 19th- and early 20th-century national politics.
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C.
Irving Babbitt
Irving Babbitt was an American literary critic and humanist whose advocacy of classical restraint, moral realism, and the "New Humanism" movement deeply shaped 20th-century conservative thought.
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D.
Roscoe Pound
Roscoe Pound was an influential American legal scholar and educator, best known for developing the theory of sociological jurisprudence and serving as dean of Harvard Law School.
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E.
Roger Nash Baldwin
Roger Nash Baldwin was an American civil liberties advocate and social reformer best known as a principal founder and long-time leader of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Clarence Irving Lewis Description of subject: Clarence Irving Lewis was an influential American philosopher and logician known for his work on modal logic, pragmatism, and the theory of knowledge.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.