Triple

T3032458
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lester Holt E82928 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Lester Don Holt Jr.
Lester Don Holt Jr. is an American television journalist best known as the anchor of NBC Nightly News and a prominent figure in broadcast news.
E319807 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: Lester Don Holt Jr. | Statement: [Lester Holt, fullName, Lester Don Holt Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lester Don Holt Jr.
Context triple: [Lester Holt, fullName, Lester Don Holt Jr.]
  • A. Robert Calvin Bland
    Robert Calvin Bland was an influential American blues and soul singer known for his smooth vocal style and a string of hits in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • B. Larry Blanford
    Larry Blanford is a professional cinematographer known for his work on feature films such as the romantic comedy "Think Like a Man."
  • C. Robert Lee Huff
    Robert Lee Huff, better known as Sam Huff, was a Hall of Fame American football linebacker who starred for the New York Giants and Washington Redskins in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • D. Greg Stillson
    Greg Stillson is the ambitious, populist politician and primary antagonist in Stephen King’s novel "The Dead Zone," whose rise to power is foreseen to lead to catastrophic consequences.
  • E. Charles Neblett
    Charles Neblett is an American civil rights activist and singer best known as a founding member of the SNCC Freedom Singers, who used music to support and advance the 1960s Civil Rights 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: Lester Don Holt Jr.
Triple: [Lester Holt, fullName, Lester Don Holt Jr.]
Generated description
Lester Don Holt Jr. is an American television journalist best known as the anchor of NBC Nightly News and a prominent figure in broadcast news.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lester Don Holt Jr.
Target entity description: Lester Don Holt Jr. is an American television journalist best known as the anchor of NBC Nightly News and a prominent figure in broadcast news.
  • A. Robert Calvin Bland
    Robert Calvin Bland was an influential American blues and soul singer known for his smooth vocal style and a string of hits in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • B. Larry Blanford
    Larry Blanford is a professional cinematographer known for his work on feature films such as the romantic comedy "Think Like a Man."
  • C. Robert Lee Huff
    Robert Lee Huff, better known as Sam Huff, was a Hall of Fame American football linebacker who starred for the New York Giants and Washington Redskins in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • D. Greg Stillson
    Greg Stillson is the ambitious, populist politician and primary antagonist in Stephen King’s novel "The Dead Zone," whose rise to power is foreseen to lead to catastrophic consequences.
  • E. Charles Neblett
    Charles Neblett is an American civil rights activist and singer best known as a founding member of the SNCC Freedom Singers, who used music to support and advance the 1960s Civil Rights 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_69ad8b21a62881908ec5dd4fba4a187c completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9aefc2dc8190ad9b349ca45b7e30 completed March 8, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b1debfa51881909e41c55774bbccf9 completed March 11, 2026, 9:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1df29c6e48190bd95c9e5c091d6d5 completed March 11, 2026, 9:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1df8705fc8190827d1d131a6f274a completed March 11, 2026, 9:32 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:01 p.m.