Triple

T11810785
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hiwassee Island E280865 entity
Predicate excavatedBy P7650 FINISHED
Object Thomas M. N. Lewis
Thomas M. N. Lewis was an American archaeologist known for his influential excavations and research on prehistoric Native American sites in the southeastern United States.
 E983158 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: Thomas M. N. Lewis | Statement: [Hiwassee Island, excavatedBy, Thomas M. N. Lewis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas M. N. Lewis
Context triple: [Hiwassee Island, excavatedBy, Thomas M. N. Lewis]
  • A. Peter B. Lewis
    Peter B. Lewis was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the longtime CEO of Progressive Insurance and a major donor to arts and education institutions.
  • B. Guy V. Lewis
    Guy V. Lewis was a Hall of Fame college basketball coach best known for building the University of Houston into a national powerhouse, including the famed Phi Slama Jama teams and multiple Final Four appearances.
  • C. Sam M. Lewis
    Sam M. Lewis was an American lyricist best known for writing popular songs during the early 20th-century Tin Pan Alley era.
  • D. Francis West Lewis
    Francis West Lewis was a 19th-century American physician best known for co-founding the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, one of the first pediatric hospitals in the United States.
  • E. Thomas Lewis
    Thomas Lewis was the husband of cosmetics entrepreneur Elizabeth Arden, a pioneering figure in the early 20th-century beauty industry.
  • 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: Thomas M. N. Lewis
Triple: [Hiwassee Island, excavatedBy, Thomas M. N. Lewis]
Generated description
Thomas M. N. Lewis was an American archaeologist known for his influential excavations and research on prehistoric Native American sites in the southeastern United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas M. N. Lewis
Target entity description: Thomas M. N. Lewis was an American archaeologist known for his influential excavations and research on prehistoric Native American sites in the southeastern United States.
  • A. Peter B. Lewis
    Peter B. Lewis was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the longtime CEO of Progressive Insurance and a major donor to arts and education institutions.
  • B. Guy V. Lewis
    Guy V. Lewis was a Hall of Fame college basketball coach best known for building the University of Houston into a national powerhouse, including the famed Phi Slama Jama teams and multiple Final Four appearances.
  • C. Sam M. Lewis
    Sam M. Lewis was an American lyricist best known for writing popular songs during the early 20th-century Tin Pan Alley era.
  • D. Francis West Lewis
    Francis West Lewis was a 19th-century American physician best known for co-founding the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, one of the first pediatric hospitals in the United States.
  • E. Thomas Lewis
    Thomas Lewis was the husband of cosmetics entrepreneur Elizabeth Arden, a pioneering figure in the early 20th-century beauty industry.
  • 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_69d6ab26aae88190b2489efcb2a24234 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a5ca50a081908a198b336d8c2b98 completed April 10, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f63eda009481909870bd38200dd187 completed May 2, 2026, 6:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6400fe9888190ae8244ccc8e8bc39 completed May 2, 2026, 6:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6416ba1bc8190a772bffe4d83ec15 completed May 2, 2026, 6:24 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:42 p.m.