Triple

T1163218
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lakeside School E24538 entity
Predicate hasAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object David Shields (writer)
David Shields is an American author and essayist known for his experimental, genre-blurring works on literature, culture, and the nature of reality, including the influential book "Reality Hunger."
 E133494 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 Shields (writer) | Statement: [Lakeside School, hasAlumnus, David Shields (writer)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David Shields (writer)
Context triple: [Lakeside School, hasAlumnus, David Shields (writer)]
  • A. Dan Jewett
    Dan Jewett is an American science teacher known for his brief marriage to billionaire philanthropist and novelist MacKenzie Scott.
  • B. Paul Vogel
    Paul Vogel was an American cinematographer best known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the Oscar-winning "Battleground."
  • C. Jonathan Lethem
    Jonathan Lethem is an American novelist known for blending literary fiction with genre elements such as science fiction, detective stories, and pop culture, in works like "Motherless Brooklyn" and "The Fortress of Solitude."
  • D. Derek Kolstad
    Derek Kolstad is an American screenwriter best known as the creator and primary writer of the John Wick action film franchise.
  • E. Ed Oates
    Ed Oates is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of Oracle Corporation, a pioneering company in relational database technology.
  • 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 Shields (writer)
Triple: [Lakeside School, hasAlumnus, David Shields (writer)]
Generated description
David Shields is an American author and essayist known for his experimental, genre-blurring works on literature, culture, and the nature of reality, including the influential book "Reality Hunger."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David Shields (writer)
Target entity description: David Shields is an American author and essayist known for his experimental, genre-blurring works on literature, culture, and the nature of reality, including the influential book "Reality Hunger."
  • A. Dan Jewett
    Dan Jewett is an American science teacher known for his brief marriage to billionaire philanthropist and novelist MacKenzie Scott.
  • B. Paul Vogel
    Paul Vogel was an American cinematographer best known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the Oscar-winning "Battleground."
  • C. Jonathan Lethem
    Jonathan Lethem is an American novelist known for blending literary fiction with genre elements such as science fiction, detective stories, and pop culture, in works like "Motherless Brooklyn" and "The Fortress of Solitude."
  • D. Derek Kolstad
    Derek Kolstad is an American screenwriter best known as the creator and primary writer of the John Wick action film franchise.
  • E. Ed Oates
    Ed Oates is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of Oracle Corporation, a pioneering company in relational database technology.
  • 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_69a494060e148190abb42f971242c197 completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bcc9dc5081908e225a485186ab12 completed March 1, 2026, 10:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac66803e0881908d2eea76dad028fa completed March 7, 2026, 5:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac670b57808190bee4aa0be78ae8a1 completed March 7, 2026, 5:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac67e981e88190b10ad4ab72337557 completed March 7, 2026, 6:01 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.