Triple

T1140667
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Birth of a Nation E23441 entity
Predicate stars P1956 FINISHED
Object Ralph Lewis
Ralph Lewis was an American silent film actor best known for his prominent role in D. W. Griffith’s landmark 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation."
E148395 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Ralph Lewis | Statement: [The Birth of a Nation, stars, Ralph Lewis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ralph Lewis
Context triple: [The Birth of a Nation, stars, Ralph Lewis]
  • A. Harold McLernon
    Harold McLernon was a film editor known for his work on early sound-era movies, including the 1928 musical drama "The Singing Fool."
  • B. Clifton Daniel
    Clifton Daniel was an American newspaper editor and managing editor of The New York Times, known also as the son-in-law of U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
  • C. Jeffrey Jones
    Jeffrey Jones is an American character actor best known for his roles in films such as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Beetlejuice," and "Amadeus."
  • D. Roger Brown
    Roger Brown was a professional basketball player best known for his scoring and rebounding in the American Basketball Association during the 1970s.
  • E. Ralph Riggs
    Ralph Riggs was an American stage actor best known for his work in mid-20th-century Broadway musicals, including originating a role in the landmark Rodgers and Hammerstein show "Oklahoma!".
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Ralph Lewis
Triple: [The Birth of a Nation, stars, Ralph Lewis]
Generated description
Ralph Lewis was an American silent film actor best known for his prominent role in D. W. Griffith’s landmark 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ralph Lewis
Target entity description: Ralph Lewis was an American silent film actor best known for his prominent role in D. W. Griffith’s landmark 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation."
  • A. Harold McLernon
    Harold McLernon was a film editor known for his work on early sound-era movies, including the 1928 musical drama "The Singing Fool."
  • B. Clifton Daniel
    Clifton Daniel was an American newspaper editor and managing editor of The New York Times, known also as the son-in-law of U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
  • C. Jeffrey Jones
    Jeffrey Jones is an American character actor best known for his roles in films such as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Beetlejuice," and "Amadeus."
  • D. Roger Brown
    Roger Brown was a professional basketball player best known for his scoring and rebounding in the American Basketball Association during the 1970s.
  • E. Ralph Riggs
    Ralph Riggs was an American stage actor best known for his work in mid-20th-century Broadway musicals, including originating a role in the landmark Rodgers and Hammerstein show "Oklahoma!".
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69a493ef399c8190b04b9146d2314f59 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bc290ae08190afbf7e7ea2100d9e completed March 1, 2026, 10:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acb2f3df34819090d942aad0a409fa completed March 7, 2026, 11:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acb364f2d88190b20ad87001349562 completed March 7, 2026, 11:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acb3ce7720819095558536e0a978b8 completed March 7, 2026, 11:25 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.