Triple
T12684259
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Lester William Polsfuss |
E303025
|
entity |
| Predicate | birthName |
P65
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Lester William Polsfuss |
E303025
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Lester William Polsfuss | Statement: [Lester William Polsfuss, birthName, Lester William Polsfuss]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lester William Polsfuss Context triple: [Lester William Polsfuss, birthName, Lester William Polsfuss]
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A.
Lester William Polsfuss
chosen
Lester William Polsfuss, better known as Les Paul, was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, inventor, and pioneer of the solid-body electric guitar whose innovations profoundly shaped modern music.
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B.
Clarence Lapowski
Clarence Lapowski, better known as Clarence Dillon, was a prominent American financier and investment banker who led the firm Dillon, Read & Co. in the early 20th century.
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C.
Lester Germer
Lester Germer was an American physicist best known for the Davisson–Germer experiment, which provided key evidence for the wave nature of electrons and helped confirm quantum mechanics.
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D.
Louis Butz
Louis Butz is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Butz.
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E.
Wilm Hosenfeld
Wilm Hosenfeld was a German Wehrmacht officer known for secretly helping and ultimately saving Polish Jews, most famously the pianist Władysław Szpilman, during World War II.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d7bdee64a08190801c6d470aefd723 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d961d68358819095bdaab8adf1dcf0 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:47 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f67c7a79908190b83a868090990bbe |
completed | May 2, 2026, 10:36 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:21 p.m.