Triple

T1348278
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Spike Lee E28820 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Shelton Jackson Lee
Shelton Jackson Lee, better known as Spike Lee, is an influential American filmmaker, producer, and actor renowned for his provocative, socially conscious films exploring race, politics, and urban life.
E181786 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: Shelton Jackson Lee | Statement: [Spike Lee, birthName, Shelton Jackson Lee]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shelton Jackson Lee
Context triple: [Spike Lee, birthName, Shelton Jackson Lee]
  • A. Leonidas Polk
    Leonidas Polk was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who was also an Episcopal bishop, earning him the nickname "the Fighting Bishop."
  • B. James Hicks Stone
    James Hicks Stone was the brother of prominent American architect Edward Durell Stone and a member of the Stone family noted for its contributions to architecture and the arts.
  • C. William L. Cabell
    William L. Cabell was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who later became a prominent political figure and mayor of Dallas, Texas.
  • D. Thomas Fairfax
    Thomas Fairfax was a prominent 17th-century English general who led Parliament’s New Model Army to key victories during the English Civil War.
  • E. Philip Barton Key II
    Philip Barton Key II was a 19th-century American lawyer and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, best known for his scandalous affair with Teresa Bagioli Sickles and his subsequent murder by her husband, Congressman Daniel Sickles.
  • 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: Shelton Jackson Lee
Triple: [Spike Lee, birthName, Shelton Jackson Lee]
Generated description
Shelton Jackson Lee, better known as Spike Lee, is an influential American filmmaker, producer, and actor renowned for his provocative, socially conscious films exploring race, politics, and urban life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shelton Jackson Lee
Target entity description: Shelton Jackson Lee, better known as Spike Lee, is an influential American filmmaker, producer, and actor renowned for his provocative, socially conscious films exploring race, politics, and urban life.
  • A. Leonidas Polk
    Leonidas Polk was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who was also an Episcopal bishop, earning him the nickname "the Fighting Bishop."
  • B. James Hicks Stone
    James Hicks Stone was the brother of prominent American architect Edward Durell Stone and a member of the Stone family noted for its contributions to architecture and the arts.
  • C. William L. Cabell
    William L. Cabell was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who later became a prominent political figure and mayor of Dallas, Texas.
  • D. Thomas Fairfax
    Thomas Fairfax was a prominent 17th-century English general who led Parliament’s New Model Army to key victories during the English Civil War.
  • E. Philip Barton Key II
    Philip Barton Key II was a 19th-century American lawyer and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, best known for his scandalous affair with Teresa Bagioli Sickles and his subsequent murder by her husband, Congressman Daniel Sickles.
  • 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_69a498571d248190a0ac9eb02d97097f completed March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c2418e38819094683d6e1efc6e56 completed March 1, 2026, 10:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad4684f09081909775a9967c1cc09f completed March 8, 2026, 9:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad4a9e2ad88190a1512be1cc5bf22c completed March 8, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad4e92dc9881909b0d93a94a54547e completed March 8, 2026, 10:25 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:56 p.m.