Triple

T13997755
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Boston Legal E336744 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Paul Lewiston
Paul Lewiston is a senior partner and managing attorney at the law firm Crane, Poole & Schmidt in the television series "Boston Legal," known for his strict professionalism and efforts to maintain order amid the firm's eccentric lawyers.
E1074706 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: Paul Lewiston | Statement: [Boston Legal, mainCharacter, Paul Lewiston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Lewiston
Context triple: [Boston Legal, mainCharacter, Paul Lewiston]
  • A. Hank Voight
    Hank Voight is a tough, morally ambiguous police sergeant who leads the Intelligence Unit in the television drama "Chicago P.D."
  • B. Turk Malloy
    Turk Malloy is a skilled driver and member of Danny Ocean’s crew in the "Ocean's" heist film series.
  • C. Officer Pete Malloy
    Officer Pete Malloy is a fictional Los Angeles police officer and one of the two main protagonists in the classic TV series "Adam-12."
  • D. Jack Abbott
    Jack Abbott is a central fictional businessman and member of the Abbott family on the long-running American soap opera "The Young and the Restless."
  • E. Angelo Rizzoli
    Angelo Rizzoli was an Italian film producer and publisher known for backing major auteurs of postwar Italian cinema, including Federico Fellini.
  • 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: Paul Lewiston
Triple: [Boston Legal, mainCharacter, Paul Lewiston]
Generated description
Paul Lewiston is a senior partner and managing attorney at the law firm Crane, Poole & Schmidt in the television series "Boston Legal," known for his strict professionalism and efforts to maintain order amid the firm's eccentric lawyers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Lewiston
Target entity description: Paul Lewiston is a senior partner and managing attorney at the law firm Crane, Poole & Schmidt in the television series "Boston Legal," known for his strict professionalism and efforts to maintain order amid the firm's eccentric lawyers.
  • A. Hank Voight
    Hank Voight is a tough, morally ambiguous police sergeant who leads the Intelligence Unit in the television drama "Chicago P.D."
  • B. Turk Malloy
    Turk Malloy is a skilled driver and member of Danny Ocean’s crew in the "Ocean's" heist film series.
  • C. Officer Pete Malloy
    Officer Pete Malloy is a fictional Los Angeles police officer and one of the two main protagonists in the classic TV series "Adam-12."
  • D. Jack Abbott
    Jack Abbott is a central fictional businessman and member of the Abbott family on the long-running American soap opera "The Young and the Restless."
  • E. Angelo Rizzoli
    Angelo Rizzoli was an Italian film producer and publisher known for backing major auteurs of postwar Italian cinema, including Federico Fellini.
  • 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_69d81c645c5c8190b1fd16a285a1b78a completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de2eb68ba88190bfaf10777d607bf3 completed April 14, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fbac9f1f6c8190af7ddac920661bd5 completed May 6, 2026, 9:03 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fbae3d04f081908c8d28148b4f1de0 completed May 6, 2026, 9:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fbaf41636c8190bf44bd238bd9d9a4 completed May 6, 2026, 9:14 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:19 p.m.