Triple

T18134909
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dennis Hoey E434110 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Samuel David Hyams
Samuel David Hyams was the birth name of Dennis Hoey, a British actor best known for playing Inspector Lestrade in the Universal Pictures Sherlock Holmes film series of the 1940s.
 E1312336 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: Samuel David Hyams | Statement: [Dennis Hoey, birthName, Samuel David Hyams]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Samuel David Hyams
Context triple: [Dennis Hoey, birthName, Samuel David Hyams]
  • A. Otto Hunte
    Otto Hunte was a prominent German film art director and production designer best known for his influential work on classic Weimar-era films, including Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.
  • B. John Wesley Hoyt
    John Wesley Hoyt was an American politician and educator who served as the third Governor of the Wyoming Territory in the late 19th century.
  • C. Robert Hoyt
    Robert Hoyt is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Hoyt surname.
  • D. Harry Davenport
    Harry Davenport was an American character actor best known for his numerous supporting roles in classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • E. Warner Oland
    Warner Oland was a Swedish-American actor best known for portraying the detective Charlie Chan in a popular series of 1930s films.
  • 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: Samuel David Hyams
Triple: [Dennis Hoey, birthName, Samuel David Hyams]
Generated description
Samuel David Hyams was the birth name of Dennis Hoey, a British actor best known for playing Inspector Lestrade in the Universal Pictures Sherlock Holmes film series of the 1940s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Samuel David Hyams
Target entity description: Samuel David Hyams was the birth name of Dennis Hoey, a British actor best known for playing Inspector Lestrade in the Universal Pictures Sherlock Holmes film series of the 1940s.
  • A. Otto Hunte
    Otto Hunte was a prominent German film art director and production designer best known for his influential work on classic Weimar-era films, including Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.
  • B. John Wesley Hoyt
    John Wesley Hoyt was an American politician and educator who served as the third Governor of the Wyoming Territory in the late 19th century.
  • C. Robert Hoyt
    Robert Hoyt is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Hoyt surname.
  • D. Harry Davenport
    Harry Davenport was an American character actor best known for his numerous supporting roles in classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • E. Warner Oland
    Warner Oland was a Swedish-American actor best known for portraying the detective Charlie Chan in a popular series of 1930s films.
  • 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_69d8b909e8cc81908df4cc2b8ea6d11f completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4de0677088190aaf584882b3d74a1 completed April 19, 2026, 1:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a039effedd88190b7398132f15c5265 completed May 12, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a039fdd9c4c819083b450657d0ece43 completed May 12, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03a0d6de8c8190b1f94c7de0856143 completed May 12, 2026, 9:51 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:29 a.m.