Triple
T19061988
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Lew DeWitt |
E466554
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Lewis Calvin DeWitt
Lewis Calvin DeWitt was an American country and bluegrass singer, guitarist, and founding member of the Statler Brothers.
|
E1430675
|
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 Calvin DeWitt | Statement: [Lew DeWitt, fullName, Lewis Calvin DeWitt]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lewis Calvin DeWitt Context triple: [Lew DeWitt, fullName, Lewis Calvin DeWitt]
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A.
William A. Wheeler
William A. Wheeler was an American politician who served as the 19th vice president of the United States under President Rutherford B. Hayes.
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B.
Theodore Sedgwick Wright
Theodore Sedgwick Wright was a prominent 19th-century African American Presbyterian minister and abolitionist who was among the first Black graduates of Princeton Theological Seminary.
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C.
Charles S. Hamlin
Charles S. Hamlin was an American lawyer and public official who became the first chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, helping to establish the early framework of U.S. central banking policy.
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D.
Linwood G. Dunn
Linwood G. Dunn was a pioneering American visual effects artist and cinematographer renowned for his groundbreaking work in optical printing and special effects in classic Hollywood films.
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E.
William Stetson Merrill
William Stetson Merrill was an American librarian and classification theorist known for his influential work on library book classification and subject headings in the early 20th century.
- 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 Calvin DeWitt Triple: [Lew DeWitt, fullName, Lewis Calvin DeWitt]
Generated description
Lewis Calvin DeWitt was an American country and bluegrass singer, guitarist, and founding member of the Statler Brothers.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lewis Calvin DeWitt Target entity description: Lewis Calvin DeWitt was an American country and bluegrass singer, guitarist, and founding member of the Statler Brothers.
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A.
William A. Wheeler
William A. Wheeler was an American politician who served as the 19th vice president of the United States under President Rutherford B. Hayes.
-
B.
Theodore Sedgwick Wright
Theodore Sedgwick Wright was a prominent 19th-century African American Presbyterian minister and abolitionist who was among the first Black graduates of Princeton Theological Seminary.
-
C.
Charles S. Hamlin
Charles S. Hamlin was an American lawyer and public official who became the first chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, helping to establish the early framework of U.S. central banking policy.
-
D.
Linwood G. Dunn
Linwood G. Dunn was a pioneering American visual effects artist and cinematographer renowned for his groundbreaking work in optical printing and special effects in classic Hollywood films.
-
E.
William Stetson Merrill
William Stetson Merrill was an American librarian and classification theorist known for his influential work on library book classification and subject headings in the early 20th century.
- 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_69d8dd040fb881909af2a964f65ad208 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e5e194c854819085a0a48d22c5cebd |
completed | April 20, 2026, 8:19 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a0883db3d888190a737968796e13f79 |
completed | May 16, 2026, 2:49 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a0884d316148190b1fe155fc2dfbb7b |
completed | May 16, 2026, 2:53 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a088565cbcc81909b4bbc286d272ef6 |
completed | May 16, 2026, 2:55 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:03 p.m.