Triple

T1746117
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject CBS Evening News E38338 entity
Predicate anchor P11754 FINISHED
Object Douglas Edwards
Douglas Edwards was an American broadcast journalist best known as the first network television news anchor in the United States, leading CBS’s flagship evening newscast in the early years of TV news.
 E205548 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: Douglas Edwards | Statement: [CBS Evening News, anchor, Douglas Edwards]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Douglas Edwards
Context triple: [CBS Evening News, anchor, Douglas Edwards]
  • A. David Brinkley
    David Brinkley was a prominent American television newscaster and journalist best known for co-anchoring "The Huntley–Brinkley Report" and later serving as a leading figure in network evening news.
  • B. Bill Whitaker
    Bill Whitaker is an American television journalist best known as a longtime correspondent for the CBS news magazine program "60 Minutes."
  • C. Don Hewitt
    Don Hewitt was an American television news producer best known for pioneering modern TV newsmagazine journalism.
  • D. Walter Cronkite
    Walter Cronkite was a legendary American broadcast journalist and longtime CBS Evening News anchor, widely regarded as "the most trusted man in America" during the mid-20th century.
  • E. Tom Brokaw
    Tom Brokaw is an American television journalist and author best known for serving as a longtime anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News.
  • 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: Douglas Edwards
Triple: [CBS Evening News, anchor, Douglas Edwards]
Generated description
Douglas Edwards was an American broadcast journalist best known as the first network television news anchor in the United States, leading CBS’s flagship evening newscast in the early years of TV news.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Douglas Edwards
Target entity description: Douglas Edwards was an American broadcast journalist best known as the first network television news anchor in the United States, leading CBS’s flagship evening newscast in the early years of TV news.
  • A. David Brinkley
    David Brinkley was a prominent American television newscaster and journalist best known for co-anchoring "The Huntley–Brinkley Report" and later serving as a leading figure in network evening news.
  • B. Bill Whitaker
    Bill Whitaker is an American television journalist best known as a longtime correspondent for the CBS news magazine program "60 Minutes."
  • C. Don Hewitt
    Don Hewitt was an American television news producer best known for pioneering modern TV newsmagazine journalism.
  • D. Walter Cronkite
    Walter Cronkite was a legendary American broadcast journalist and longtime CBS Evening News anchor, widely regarded as "the most trusted man in America" during the mid-20th century.
  • E. Tom Brokaw
    Tom Brokaw is an American television journalist and author best known for serving as a longtime anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News.
  • 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_69a8862b01a48190ab47209063af82d9 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa63eabdf48190878ecde3d1b1faf3 completed March 6, 2026, 5:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adc99a3e908190b64f70cf7ab83ed3 completed March 8, 2026, 7:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adcaed1f788190b14c3e2d2c3036d9 completed March 8, 2026, 7:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adcbee97e88190adc1315c0a5013ab completed March 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:31 p.m.