Triple

T9952552
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Don Hewitt E195364 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Donald Shepard Hewitt
Donald Shepard Hewitt was an American television news producer best known as the creator and longtime executive producer of the CBS news magazine program "60 Minutes."
E833194 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: Donald Shepard Hewitt | Statement: [Don Hewitt, fullName, Donald Shepard Hewitt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald Shepard Hewitt
Context triple: [Don Hewitt, fullName, Donald Shepard Hewitt]
  • A. George C. Powell
    George C. Powell was the father of Lewis Powell, one of the conspirators involved in the assassination plot against U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
  • B. George E. Smith
    George E. Smith is an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for co-inventing the charge-coupled device (CCD), a technology fundamental to digital imaging.
  • C. Edgar Odell Lovett
    Edgar Odell Lovett was an American mathematician and educator best known as the founding president of Rice University, where he played a central role in shaping the institution’s early development.
  • D. John R. Whitney
    John R. Whitney is an American businessman best known as the founder of Interactive Data Corporation, a major provider of financial market data and analytics.
  • E. Walter Francis Brown
    Walter Francis Brown was an American illustrator and artist best known for his work on 19th-century books and periodicals, including providing illustrations for Mark Twain’s travel writings.
  • 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: Donald Shepard Hewitt
Triple: [Don Hewitt, fullName, Donald Shepard Hewitt]
Generated description
Donald Shepard Hewitt was an American television news producer best known as the creator and longtime executive producer of the CBS news magazine program "60 Minutes."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald Shepard Hewitt
Target entity description: Donald Shepard Hewitt was an American television news producer best known as the creator and longtime executive producer of the CBS news magazine program "60 Minutes."
  • A. George C. Powell
    George C. Powell was the father of Lewis Powell, one of the conspirators involved in the assassination plot against U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
  • B. George E. Smith
    George E. Smith is an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for co-inventing the charge-coupled device (CCD), a technology fundamental to digital imaging.
  • C. Edgar Odell Lovett
    Edgar Odell Lovett was an American mathematician and educator best known as the founding president of Rice University, where he played a central role in shaping the institution’s early development.
  • D. John R. Whitney
    John R. Whitney is an American businessman best known as the founder of Interactive Data Corporation, a major provider of financial market data and analytics.
  • E. Walter Francis Brown
    Walter Francis Brown was an American illustrator and artist best known for his work on 19th-century books and periodicals, including providing illustrations for Mark Twain’s travel writings.
  • 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_69ca82e96a108190932bd1fc4acd73a0 completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb693918081908e9f96ef302235ad completed April 2, 2026, 12:21 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d257a164308190b88432b914ea7f1a completed April 5, 2026, 12:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d25924eb2481909dbf135c387051e3 completed April 5, 2026, 12:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d259b292c88190818f512f90a641f3 completed April 5, 2026, 12:46 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:46 p.m.