Triple

T1150420
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Edge E23663 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object David Howell Evans
David Howell Evans, better known as The Edge, is the lead guitarist and a founding member of the Irish rock band U2, renowned for his distinctive, effects-driven playing style.
E170329 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: David Howell Evans | Statement: [The Edge, birthName, David Howell Evans]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Howell Evans
Context triple: [The Edge, birthName, David Howell Evans]
  • A. Rudulph Evans
    Rudulph Evans was an American sculptor best known for creating the statue of Thomas Jefferson housed in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • B. David A. Evans
    David A. Evans was a highly influential American organic chemist renowned for his pioneering work in asymmetric synthesis and the development of the Evans aldol reaction.
  • C. Paul Owens
    Paul Owens was a longtime Philadelphia Phillies executive and manager who helped build and lead the franchise to its first era of sustained success in the 1970s and early 1980s.
  • D. Thomas J. C. Martyn
    Thomas J. C. Martyn was a British-born journalist and editor best known as the founder of the American news magazine Newsweek.
  • E. George Harvey
    George Harvey was an influential American journalist, editor, and diplomat best known for his leadership of major periodicals and his role as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom in the early 20th century.
  • 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: David Howell Evans
Triple: [The Edge, birthName, David Howell Evans]
Generated description
David Howell Evans, better known as The Edge, is the lead guitarist and a founding member of the Irish rock band U2, renowned for his distinctive, effects-driven playing style.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Howell Evans
Target entity description: David Howell Evans, better known as The Edge, is the lead guitarist and a founding member of the Irish rock band U2, renowned for his distinctive, effects-driven playing style.
  • A. Rudulph Evans
    Rudulph Evans was an American sculptor best known for creating the statue of Thomas Jefferson housed in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • B. David A. Evans
    David A. Evans was a highly influential American organic chemist renowned for his pioneering work in asymmetric synthesis and the development of the Evans aldol reaction.
  • C. Paul Owens
    Paul Owens was a longtime Philadelphia Phillies executive and manager who helped build and lead the franchise to its first era of sustained success in the 1970s and early 1980s.
  • D. Thomas J. C. Martyn
    Thomas J. C. Martyn was a British-born journalist and editor best known as the founder of the American news magazine Newsweek.
  • E. George Harvey
    George Harvey was an influential American journalist, editor, and diplomat best known for his leadership of major periodicals and his role as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom in the early 20th century.
  • 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_69a493f0d32c8190ac74bad3c87f2641 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bc730b008190bd0901e0a47a4b7a completed March 1, 2026, 10:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad1c8ee9dc8190b9f6a46841003e8a completed March 8, 2026, 6:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad1db1c6008190bbe61bad1a2a7e72 completed March 8, 2026, 6:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad1e1e9fa081909201036f686fa110 completed March 8, 2026, 6:58 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.