Triple

T3342840
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject CSI: NY E70297 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Sheldon Hawkes
Sheldon Hawkes is a brilliant former surgeon turned forensic pathologist and crime scene investigator on the television series CSI: NY.
E353964 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: Sheldon Hawkes | Statement: [CSI: NY, mainCharacter, Sheldon Hawkes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sheldon Hawkes
Context triple: [CSI: NY, mainCharacter, Sheldon Hawkes]
  • A. Sheldon Lane
    Sheldon Lane is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Lane.
  • B. Charles Leavitt
    Charles Leavitt is an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film "Blood Diamond."
  • C. Harry Robbins
    Harry Robbins "H. R." Haldeman was an American political aide who served as White House Chief of Staff to President Richard Nixon and became a central figure in the Watergate scandal.
  • D. John Gurney
    John Gurney was a prominent English Quaker banker and member of the influential Gurney family of Norwich.
  • E. Daniel Lothrop
    Daniel Lothrop was a 19th-century American publisher best known for founding the D. Lothrop Company, which specialized in children's and religious literature.
  • 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: Sheldon Hawkes
Triple: [CSI: NY, mainCharacter, Sheldon Hawkes]
Generated description
Sheldon Hawkes is a brilliant former surgeon turned forensic pathologist and crime scene investigator on the television series CSI: NY.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sheldon Hawkes
Target entity description: Sheldon Hawkes is a brilliant former surgeon turned forensic pathologist and crime scene investigator on the television series CSI: NY.
  • A. Sheldon Lane
    Sheldon Lane is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Lane.
  • B. Charles Leavitt
    Charles Leavitt is an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film "Blood Diamond."
  • C. Harry Robbins
    Harry Robbins "H. R." Haldeman was an American political aide who served as White House Chief of Staff to President Richard Nixon and became a central figure in the Watergate scandal.
  • D. John Gurney
    John Gurney was a prominent English Quaker banker and member of the influential Gurney family of Norwich.
  • E. Daniel Lothrop
    Daniel Lothrop was a 19th-century American publisher best known for founding the D. Lothrop Company, which specialized in children's and religious literature.
  • 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_69ad85a405e48190b6e68de7cf9f319e completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb1f06f8c8190a6b7c56ac3f5ff07 completed March 8, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b33426f73881908eb0759c47eb08d7 completed March 12, 2026, 9:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b334e5171c8190a01bb6fef5644825 completed March 12, 2026, 9:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b3390c50b08190b6239b5f0d1eb4ba completed March 12, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:12 p.m.