Triple
T661937
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | NBC Nightly News |
E11773
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasHost |
P2592
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Lester Holt
Lester Holt is an American television journalist and news anchor best known for anchoring NBC's flagship evening news program and moderating major political debates.
|
E82928
|
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: Lester Holt | Statement: [NBC Nightly News, hasHost, Lester Holt]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lester Holt Context triple: [NBC Nightly News, hasHost, Lester Holt]
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A.
Anderson Cooper
Anderson Cooper is an American broadcast journalist and television personality best known as a longtime CNN anchor and correspondent.
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B.
Mike Tirico
Mike Tirico is an American sportscaster best known for his play-by-play work on major NFL and other marquee sports broadcasts for NBC and previously ESPN.
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C.
Mike Wallace
Mike Wallace was a prominent American broadcast journalist best known as a hard-hitting correspondent on the television news magazine "60 Minutes."
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D.
Greg Kouri
Greg Kouri was a Canadian entrepreneur and early investor best known for co-founding Zip2 alongside Elon and Kimbal Musk.
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E.
Stephen E. Smith
Stephen E. Smith was an American businessman and political strategist closely associated with the Kennedy family, notably serving as a key adviser and organizer in their political campaigns.
- 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: Lester Holt Triple: [NBC Nightly News, hasHost, Lester Holt]
Generated description
Lester Holt is an American television journalist and news anchor best known for anchoring NBC's flagship evening news program and moderating major political debates.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lester Holt Target entity description: Lester Holt is an American television journalist and news anchor best known for anchoring NBC's flagship evening news program and moderating major political debates.
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A.
Anderson Cooper
Anderson Cooper is an American broadcast journalist and television personality best known as a longtime CNN anchor and correspondent.
-
B.
Mike Tirico
Mike Tirico is an American sportscaster best known for his play-by-play work on major NFL and other marquee sports broadcasts for NBC and previously ESPN.
-
C.
Mike Wallace
Mike Wallace was a prominent American broadcast journalist best known as a hard-hitting correspondent on the television news magazine "60 Minutes."
-
D.
Greg Kouri
Greg Kouri was a Canadian entrepreneur and early investor best known for co-founding Zip2 alongside Elon and Kimbal Musk.
-
E.
Stephen E. Smith
Stephen E. Smith was an American businessman and political strategist closely associated with the Kennedy family, notably serving as a key adviser and organizer in their political campaigns.
- 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_69a4932862a0819098be659c814e4981 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a49fd081e8819097f289961f5eff29 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:21 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a5c398cc748190ab720263096064ef |
completed | March 2, 2026, 5:06 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a5c4523e8081909464ca227b880e77 |
completed | March 2, 2026, 5:09 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a5cdae65808190b7191f63d5f16d9f |
completed | March 2, 2026, 5:49 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.