Triple

T16733062
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William D. Byron E406640 entity
Predicate precededBy P97 FINISHED
Object David John Lewis
David John Lewis was an American Democratic politician from Maryland who served multiple terms in the U.S. House of Representatives in the early 20th century.
 E1230718 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: David John Lewis | Statement: [William D. Byron, precededBy, David John Lewis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David John Lewis
Context triple: [William D. Byron, precededBy, David John Lewis]
  • A. David Lewis
    David Lewis is a Canadian actor known for his character roles in film and television, including a part in the 2019 horror remake "Child's Play."
  • B. David Lewis
    David Lewis was a film producer best known for his collaborations with director Irving Rapper on classic Hollywood dramas such as "Dark Victory."
  • C. David Lewis
    David Lewis was an American philosopher renowned for his influential work in metaphysics, especially modal realism and possible worlds semantics, as well as significant contributions to philosophy of language and mind.
  • D. David E. Lewis
    David E. Lewis is a screenwriter best known for his work on the acclaimed 1971 neo-noir thriller film "Klute."
  • E. Edward Lewis
    Edward Lewis was a British music industry executive best known as the founder of the major record label Decca Records.
  • 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: David John Lewis
Triple: [William D. Byron, precededBy, David John Lewis]
Generated description
David John Lewis was an American Democratic politician from Maryland who served multiple terms in the U.S. House of Representatives in the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David John Lewis
Target entity description: David John Lewis was an American Democratic politician from Maryland who served multiple terms in the U.S. House of Representatives in the early 20th century.
  • A. David Lewis
    David Lewis is a Canadian actor known for his character roles in film and television, including a part in the 2019 horror remake "Child's Play."
  • B. David Lewis
    David Lewis was an American philosopher renowned for his influential work in metaphysics, especially modal realism and possible worlds semantics, as well as significant contributions to philosophy of language and mind.
  • C. David Lewis
    David Lewis was a film producer best known for his collaborations with director Irving Rapper on classic Hollywood dramas such as "Dark Victory."
  • D. David E. Lewis
    David E. Lewis is a screenwriter best known for his work on the acclaimed 1971 neo-noir thriller film "Klute."
  • E. Edward Lewis
    Edward Lewis is the given first name of U.S. Senator Bob Bartlett, whose full name was Edward Lewis "Bob" Bartlett.
  • 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_69d8838f242881908abd8bc138795886 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e39c3748d08190a57ae40f54aa63c4 completed April 18, 2026, 2:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a009d4c723c8190ad92628f4164d11c completed May 10, 2026, 2:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a009e08b56c8190833d5f64945a979b completed May 10, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a009eb06d6481909914286301f9b4db completed May 10, 2026, 3:05 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:20 a.m.