Triple

T7383810
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Howell Evans E170329 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object David Howell Evans E170329 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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 Howell Evans | Statement: [David Howell Evans, birthName, David Howell Evans]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David Howell Evans
Context triple: [David Howell Evans, birthName, David Howell Evans]
  • A. David Howell Evans chosen
    David Howell Evans, better known as The Edge, is the lead guitarist and a founding member of the Irish rock band U2, renowned for his distinctive, effects-driven playing style.
  • B. David Howell
    David Howell is a British Conservative politician and life peer who held several ministerial roles, including Secretary of State for Energy and for Transport, during a long parliamentary career.
  • C. David C. Evans
    David C. Evans was a pioneering American computer scientist and influential academic mentor known for his foundational contributions to computer graphics and systems research, including co-founding Evans & Sutherland.
  • D. Rudulph Evans
    Rudulph Evans was an American sculptor best known for creating the statue of Thomas Jefferson housed in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • E. David A. Evans
    David A. Evans was a highly influential American organic chemist renowned for his pioneering work in asymmetric synthesis and the development of the Evans aldol reaction.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69c68a5d0ed08190b6d361e68f813330 completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f1cb0b8881908132383c0efb0503 completed March 27, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c81ecb9b0481908af841456bce5430 completed March 28, 2026, 6:32 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:08 p.m.