Triple

T18086143
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Marshall McLuhan E432837 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object Paul Levinson
Paul Levinson is an American media theorist, author, and professor known for his work on the social impact of communication technologies and digital media.
 E1306011 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: Paul Levinson | Statement: [Marshall McLuhan, influenced, Paul Levinson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Paul Levinson
Context triple: [Marshall McLuhan, influenced, Paul Levinson]
  • A. Bob Meyrowitz
    Bob Meyrowitz is an American media executive best known for creating and launching the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), which helped popularize modern mixed martial arts.
  • B. Peter A. Levy
    Peter A. Levy is an individual known primarily under the name Peter Levy, with "Peter A. Levy" used as an alternative form of his name.
  • C. Douglas Kellner
    Douglas Kellner is an American critical theorist and cultural studies scholar known for his analyses of media, technology, and contemporary society.
  • D. Doug Jesseph
    Doug Jesseph is an American philosopher and professor known for his work in the philosophy of mathematics and his critiques of theistic arguments.
  • E. Justin Waldron
    Justin Waldron is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the social gaming company Zynga.
  • 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: Paul Levinson
Triple: [Marshall McLuhan, influenced, Paul Levinson]
Generated description
Paul Levinson is an American media theorist, author, and professor known for his work on the social impact of communication technologies and digital media.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Paul Levinson
Target entity description: Paul Levinson is an American media theorist, author, and professor known for his work on the social impact of communication technologies and digital media.
  • A. Bob Meyrowitz
    Bob Meyrowitz is an American media executive best known for creating and launching the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), which helped popularize modern mixed martial arts.
  • B. Peter A. Levy
    Peter A. Levy is an individual known primarily under the name Peter Levy, with "Peter A. Levy" used as an alternative form of his name.
  • C. Douglas Kellner
    Douglas Kellner is an American critical theorist and cultural studies scholar known for his analyses of media, technology, and contemporary society.
  • D. Doug Jesseph
    Doug Jesseph is an American philosopher and professor known for his work in the philosophy of mathematics and his critiques of theistic arguments.
  • E. Justin Waldron
    Justin Waldron is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the social gaming company Zynga.
  • 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_69d8b907d05c819083cc3bd6021089e6 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4dd150ab88190864be2a722d214b8 completed April 19, 2026, 1:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a035d97912c8190b5d281ddd08de4f1 completed May 12, 2026, 5:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a036e9077308190be6e7d228dcf11b4 completed May 12, 2026, 6:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03795b255c8190a84ca0ce2fda4599 completed May 12, 2026, 7:02 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:27 a.m.