Triple

T23202196
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Walter H. G. Lewin E580347 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Lewin
Lewin is a surname most notably associated with Walter H. G. Lewin, a Dutch astrophysicist and former MIT professor renowned for his engaging physics lectures.
 E1575502 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: Lewin | Statement: [Walter H. G. Lewin, familyName, Lewin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Lewin
Context triple: [Walter H. G. Lewin, familyName, Lewin]
  • A. Lewin
    Lewin is a town in southwestern Poland, historically known by its former name Lewin Kłodzki, situated in the Kłodzko Valley near the Czech border.
  • B. Kurt Lewin
    Kurt Lewin was a pioneering German-American psychologist best known for founding modern social psychology and developing field theory and action research.
  • C. Rensis Likert
    Rensis Likert was an American organizational psychologist and social scientist best known for developing the Likert scale and pioneering survey research methods in the study of attitudes and management.
  • D. Lippitt
    Lippitt is a residential neighborhood within the town of West Warwick in Rhode Island.
  • E. Allport
    Allport is a small town located in Lonoke County, Arkansas, in the United States.
  • 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: Lewin
Triple: [Walter H. G. Lewin, familyName, Lewin]
Generated description
Lewin is a surname most notably associated with Walter H. G. Lewin, a Dutch astrophysicist and former MIT professor renowned for his engaging physics lectures.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Lewin
Target entity description: Lewin is a surname most notably associated with Walter H. G. Lewin, a Dutch astrophysicist and former MIT professor renowned for his engaging physics lectures.
  • A. Lewin
    Lewin is a town in southwestern Poland, historically known by its former name Lewin Kłodzki, situated in the Kłodzko Valley near the Czech border.
  • B. Kurt Lewin
    Kurt Lewin was a pioneering German-American psychologist best known for founding modern social psychology and developing field theory and action research.
  • C. Rensis Likert
    Rensis Likert was an American organizational psychologist and social scientist best known for developing the Likert scale and pioneering survey research methods in the study of attitudes and management.
  • D. Lippitt
    Lippitt is a residential neighborhood within the town of West Warwick in Rhode Island.
  • E. Allport
    Allport is a small town located in Lonoke County, Arkansas, in the United States.
  • 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_69e24602ae1481908aaa6bc7ca493867 completed April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1907a8bb48190846802a24d33bccf completed April 29, 2026, 5 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c30c0ca108190bde7fe9fba83d732 completed May 19, 2026, 9:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c330135cc8190b5a0e512bda6277d completed May 19, 2026, 9:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c375dd5a4819097a80ae43a1c4442 completed May 19, 2026, 10:11 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:06 p.m.