Triple

T3042418
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Reginald C. Lewis E83160 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Reginald C. Lewis
Reginald C. Lewis was a pioneering American businessman and philanthropist, best known as one of the first African American billionaires and for leading the landmark leveraged buyout of Beatrice International Foods.
E320992 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: Reginald C. Lewis | Statement: [Reginald C. Lewis, fullName, Reginald C. Lewis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reginald C. Lewis
Context triple: [Reginald C. Lewis, fullName, Reginald C. Lewis]
  • A. Reginald C. Lewis
    Reginald C. Lewis was an American professional basketball player who starred for the Boston Celtics in the late 1980s and early 1990s before his career was tragically cut short by his sudden death.
  • B. Horace Cayton
    Horace Cayton was an influential African American sociologist, journalist, and author whose work documented Black urban life and helped shape the intellectual landscape of the Chicago Black Renaissance.
  • C. Whitney Young
    Whitney Young was a prominent American civil rights leader and longtime head of the National Urban League, known for his pragmatic, behind-the-scenes efforts to combat racial inequality and expand economic opportunities for Black Americans.
  • D. Alonzo W. Rollins
    Alonzo W. Rollins was a Chicago-based businessman and philanthropist whose substantial donations and support for education led to a liberal arts college in Florida being named in his honor.
  • E. Joel Elias Spingarn
    Joel Elias Spingarn was an American educator, literary critic, and civil rights activist who played a key leadership role in the early NAACP.
  • 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: Reginald C. Lewis
Triple: [Reginald C. Lewis, fullName, Reginald C. Lewis]
Generated description
Reginald C. Lewis was a pioneering American businessman and philanthropist, best known as one of the first African American billionaires and for leading the landmark leveraged buyout of Beatrice International Foods.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reginald C. Lewis
Target entity description: Reginald C. Lewis was a pioneering American businessman and philanthropist, best known as one of the first African American billionaires and for leading the landmark leveraged buyout of Beatrice International Foods.
  • A. Reginald C. Lewis
    Reginald C. Lewis was an American professional basketball player who starred for the Boston Celtics in the late 1980s and early 1990s before his career was tragically cut short by his sudden death.
  • B. Horace Cayton
    Horace Cayton was an influential African American sociologist, journalist, and author whose work documented Black urban life and helped shape the intellectual landscape of the Chicago Black Renaissance.
  • C. Whitney Young
    Whitney Young was a prominent American civil rights leader and longtime head of the National Urban League, known for his pragmatic, behind-the-scenes efforts to combat racial inequality and expand economic opportunities for Black Americans.
  • D. Alonzo W. Rollins
    Alonzo W. Rollins was a Chicago-based businessman and philanthropist whose substantial donations and support for education led to a liberal arts college in Florida being named in his honor.
  • E. Joel Elias Spingarn
    Joel Elias Spingarn was an American educator, literary critic, and civil rights activist who played a key leadership role in the early NAACP.
  • 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_69ad8b2298908190a7cb4e9bdbf064d0 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9b5d2a308190b4ce20efcae9b761 completed March 8, 2026, 3:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b1ded35e008190be7dd72aa7537a3b completed March 11, 2026, 9:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1dfa2fb28819089d7d76d9dc72e06 completed March 11, 2026, 9:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1e0243a848190bce24d035a79fc0a completed March 11, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:01 p.m.