Triple

T2645634
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Band of Brothers E62975 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Lewis Nixon
Lewis Nixon was a real-life U.S. Army intelligence officer in Easy Company of the 101st Airborne Division during World War II, prominently portrayed in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
E291038 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: Lewis Nixon | Statement: [Band of Brothers, mainCharacter, Lewis Nixon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lewis Nixon
Context triple: [Band of Brothers, mainCharacter, Lewis Nixon]
  • A. Robert Kincaid
    Robert Kincaid is a solitary National Geographic photographer whose brief, intense love affair with an Iowa farm wife forms the emotional core of the romantic drama "The Bridges of Madison County."
  • B. Brian Fleming
    Brian Fleming is a personal name shared by several individuals, most commonly associated with professionals in fields such as law, politics, and the arts.
  • C. Henry Lucas
    Henry Lucas was a 17th-century English clergyman, politician, and benefactor whose endowment led to the creation of the prestigious Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
  • D. Leo Gordon
    Leo Gordon was an American character actor and screenwriter known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Westerns and crime films from the 1950s through the 1970s.
  • E. John Dunlavy
    John Dunlavy was an early 19th-century American religious leader and writer involved in the dissolution of the Springfield Presbytery and later known for his association with the Shaker movement.
  • 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: Lewis Nixon
Triple: [Band of Brothers, mainCharacter, Lewis Nixon]
Generated description
Lewis Nixon was a real-life U.S. Army intelligence officer in Easy Company of the 101st Airborne Division during World War II, prominently portrayed in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lewis Nixon
Target entity description: Lewis Nixon was a real-life U.S. Army intelligence officer in Easy Company of the 101st Airborne Division during World War II, prominently portrayed in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
  • A. Robert Kincaid
    Robert Kincaid is a solitary National Geographic photographer whose brief, intense love affair with an Iowa farm wife forms the emotional core of the romantic drama "The Bridges of Madison County."
  • B. Brian Fleming
    Brian Fleming is a personal name shared by several individuals, most commonly associated with professionals in fields such as law, politics, and the arts.
  • C. Henry Lucas
    Henry Lucas was a 17th-century English clergyman, politician, and benefactor whose endowment led to the creation of the prestigious Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
  • D. Leo Gordon
    Leo Gordon was an American character actor and screenwriter known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Westerns and crime films from the 1950s through the 1970s.
  • E. John Dunlavy
    John Dunlavy was an early 19th-century American religious leader and writer involved in the dissolution of the Springfield Presbytery and later known for his association with the Shaker movement.
  • 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_69ab4c3f2dcc819082df80f5e032f690 completed March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd91846b4819093a063c15e1ee6af completed March 7, 2026, 7:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afaf49dc7c8190bebc1c75f6d00ef9 completed March 10, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afafddb2a081909b891eed7ba5411d completed March 10, 2026, 5:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afb10304488190a1129efae36b3c4e completed March 10, 2026, 5:49 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:53 p.m.