Triple

T5649884
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lewis Powell E124476 entity
Predicate fullName P16 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.
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]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.