Triple

T11693468
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lew Fields E277928 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Lewis Maurice Schanfield
Lewis Maurice Schanfield, better known as Lew Fields, was a prominent American vaudeville comedian, actor, and theatrical producer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
E942443 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: Lewis Maurice Schanfield | Statement: [Lew Fields, birthName, Lewis Maurice Schanfield]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lewis Maurice Schanfield
Context triple: [Lew Fields, birthName, Lewis Maurice Schanfield]
  • A. John C. Darnell
    John C. Darnell is an American Egyptologist and archaeologist known for his influential work on ancient Egyptian texts and desert routes, including the identification of some of the earliest alphabetic inscriptions.
  • B. George H. Hitchings
    George H. Hitchings was an American biochemist and pharmacologist who pioneered the development of important chemotherapy and antiviral drugs, work for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  • C. Douglas H. Cooper
    Douglas H. Cooper was a Confederate officer and Indian agent who led Native American troops in several key campaigns in the Civil War’s Indian Territory.
  • D. Sidney Ehrlich
    Sidney Ehrlich is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Ehrlich surname.
  • E. Richard T. Heffron
    Richard T. Heffron was an American film and television director known for works such as "Futureworld" and the miniseries "North and South."
  • 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: Lewis Maurice Schanfield
Triple: [Lew Fields, birthName, Lewis Maurice Schanfield]
Generated description
Lewis Maurice Schanfield, better known as Lew Fields, was a prominent American vaudeville comedian, actor, and theatrical producer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lewis Maurice Schanfield
Target entity description: Lewis Maurice Schanfield, better known as Lew Fields, was a prominent American vaudeville comedian, actor, and theatrical producer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. John C. Darnell
    John C. Darnell is an American Egyptologist and archaeologist known for his influential work on ancient Egyptian texts and desert routes, including the identification of some of the earliest alphabetic inscriptions.
  • B. George H. Hitchings
    George H. Hitchings was an American biochemist and pharmacologist who pioneered the development of important chemotherapy and antiviral drugs, work for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  • C. Douglas H. Cooper
    Douglas H. Cooper was a Confederate officer and Indian agent who led Native American troops in several key campaigns in the Civil War’s Indian Territory.
  • D. Sidney Ehrlich
    Sidney Ehrlich is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Ehrlich surname.
  • E. Richard T. Heffron
    Richard T. Heffron was an American film and television director known for works such as "Futureworld" and the miniseries "North and South."
  • 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_69d6aafe02d881909900d54ad7d4af84 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a47b9eb48190976a35e91e25b56b completed April 10, 2026, 7:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ef831d27248190894ffdb12c1ddd4d completed April 27, 2026, 3:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ef96b0169081909ad5c5d40a006e64 completed April 27, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69efb4dad6a481909a54511b6233993b completed April 27, 2026, 7:11 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:40 p.m.