Triple
T5649884
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Lewis Powell |
E124476
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
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FINISHED |
| Object |
Lewis Thornton Powell
Lewis Thornton Powell was an American Confederate soldier and conspirator in the assassination plot against U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, best known for his failed attempt to murder Secretary of State William H. Seward.
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E656786
|
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 Thornton Powell | Statement: [Lewis Powell, fullName, Lewis Thornton Powell]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lewis Thornton Powell Context triple: [Lewis Powell, fullName, Lewis Thornton Powell]
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A.
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Lewis F. Powell Jr. was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1972–1987) known as a pivotal moderate whose swing votes shaped landmark decisions on issues such as abortion, affirmative action, and the death penalty.
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B.
Justice Stanley Reed
Justice Stanley Reed was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1938–1957) known for his generally moderate to conservative jurisprudence during the New Deal and early Cold War eras.
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C.
William Douglas
William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and influential landowner known for his political roles and extravagant lifestyle.
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D.
Paul G. Kirk
Paul G. Kirk is an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as interim U.S. Senator from Massachusetts following the death of Edward M. Kennedy.
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E.
Justice George Sutherland
Justice George Sutherland was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his conservative jurisprudence and influential role in the Court’s early 20th-century decisions limiting federal power.
- 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 Thornton Powell Triple: [Lewis Powell, fullName, Lewis Thornton Powell]
Generated description
Lewis Thornton Powell was an American Confederate soldier and conspirator in the assassination plot against U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, best known for his failed attempt to murder Secretary of State William H. Seward.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lewis Thornton Powell Target entity description: Lewis Thornton Powell was an American Confederate soldier and conspirator in the assassination plot against U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, best known for his failed attempt to murder Secretary of State William H. Seward.
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A.
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Lewis F. Powell Jr. was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1972–1987) known as a pivotal moderate whose swing votes shaped landmark decisions on issues such as abortion, affirmative action, and the death penalty.
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B.
Justice Stanley Reed
Justice Stanley Reed was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1938–1957) known for his generally moderate to conservative jurisprudence during the New Deal and early Cold War eras.
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C.
William Douglas
William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and influential landowner known for his political roles and extravagant lifestyle.
-
D.
Paul G. Kirk
Paul G. Kirk is an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as interim U.S. Senator from Massachusetts following the death of Edward M. Kennedy.
-
E.
Justice George Sutherland
Justice George Sutherland was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his conservative jurisprudence and influential role in the Court’s early 20th-century decisions limiting federal power.
- 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_69c00825df388190a58742fa9b1aa33d |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:17 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c022d2ed648190a5152c8668cbda02 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 5:11 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c7eea9112c8190b0f0040afbf916ce |
completed | March 28, 2026, 3:07 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c7ef6cf4208190b6242aaea1e20b8e |
completed | March 28, 2026, 3:10 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c7f01543e8819082bf2dfd49d8fb28 |
completed | March 28, 2026, 3:13 p.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:42 p.m.