Triple

T4030448
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gordon E. Sawyer Award E83695 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object David W. Gray
David W. Gray is a distinguished film industry sound engineer recognized with the Academy’s Gordon E. Sawyer Award for his significant technological contributions to motion picture production.
 E446154 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 W. Gray | Statement: [Gordon E. Sawyer Award, notableRecipient, David W. Gray]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David W. Gray
Context triple: [Gordon E. Sawyer Award, notableRecipient, David W. Gray]
  • A. Peter W. Grayson
    Peter W. Grayson was a 19th-century Texas political figure and lawyer who played a significant role in the early history of the Republic of Texas.
  • B. David R. Scott
    David R. Scott is an American astronaut, Air Force officer, and test pilot best known for commanding the Apollo 15 mission and becoming the seventh person to walk on the Moon.
  • C. Richard W. Smith
    Richard W. Smith is a member of the Smith family best known as a son of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
  • D. David R. Francis
    David R. Francis was an American politician and diplomat who served as mayor of St. Louis, governor of Missouri, and U.S. ambassador to Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. David M. Brown
    David M. Brown was a U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who served as a mission specialist on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 mission.
  • 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 W. Gray
Triple: [Gordon E. Sawyer Award, notableRecipient, David W. Gray]
Generated description
David W. Gray is a distinguished film industry sound engineer recognized with the Academy’s Gordon E. Sawyer Award for his significant technological contributions to motion picture production.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David W. Gray
Target entity description: David W. Gray is a distinguished film industry sound engineer recognized with the Academy’s Gordon E. Sawyer Award for his significant technological contributions to motion picture production.
  • A. Peter W. Grayson
    Peter W. Grayson was a 19th-century Texas political figure and lawyer who played a significant role in the early history of the Republic of Texas.
  • B. David R. Scott
    David R. Scott is an American astronaut, Air Force officer, and test pilot best known for commanding the Apollo 15 mission and becoming the seventh person to walk on the Moon.
  • C. Richard W. Smith
    Richard W. Smith is a member of the Smith family best known as a son of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
  • D. David R. Francis
    David R. Francis was an American politician and diplomat who served as mayor of St. Louis, governor of Missouri, and U.S. ambassador to Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. David M. Brown
    David M. Brown was a U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who served as a mission specialist on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 mission.
  • 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_69aed92e29ac819080f7a98b594fec05 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aefaf1d8208190951a20ad7e5ab7bc completed March 9, 2026, 4:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bd678c2c088190a67867248f89c46a completed March 20, 2026, 3:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bd683417b08190bc4e08638a30c0ec completed March 20, 2026, 3:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bd68b4681c8190abb170ccb054cd05 completed March 20, 2026, 3:33 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:36 p.m.