Triple

T8378190
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Robert L. May E197626 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Robert Lewis May
Robert Lewis May was an American advertising copywriter best known for creating the Christmas character Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in 1939.
 E729809 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: Robert Lewis May | Statement: [Robert L. May, fullName, Robert Lewis May]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert Lewis May
Context triple: [Robert L. May, fullName, Robert Lewis May]
  • A. Robert Lewis
    Robert Lewis was an influential American actor, director, and acting teacher best known as one of the co-founders of the Actors Studio in New York.
  • B. Thomas Lewis
    Thomas Lewis was the husband of cosmetics entrepreneur Elizabeth Arden, a pioneering figure in the early 20th-century beauty industry.
  • C. Ellis Lewis
    Ellis Lewis was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
  • D. John Williams Wilson
    John Williams Wilson was a 19th-century Chilean naval officer of British origin who played a key role in Chile’s southern maritime exploration and settlement.
  • E. James Simon Wallis Hunt
    James Simon Wallis Hunt was a British Formula One racing driver best known for winning the 1976 World Drivers' Championship and his intense rivalry with Niki Lauda.
  • 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: Robert Lewis May
Triple: [Robert L. May, fullName, Robert Lewis May]
Generated description
Robert Lewis May was an American advertising copywriter best known for creating the Christmas character Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in 1939.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert Lewis May
Target entity description: Robert Lewis May was an American advertising copywriter best known for creating the Christmas character Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in 1939.
  • A. Robert Lewis
    Robert Lewis was an influential American actor, director, and acting teacher best known as one of the co-founders of the Actors Studio in New York.
  • B. Thomas Lewis
    Thomas Lewis was the husband of cosmetics entrepreneur Elizabeth Arden, a pioneering figure in the early 20th-century beauty industry.
  • C. Ellis Lewis
    Ellis Lewis was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
  • D. John Williams Wilson
    John Williams Wilson was a 19th-century Chilean naval officer of British origin who played a key role in Chile’s southern maritime exploration and settlement.
  • E. James Simon Wallis Hunt
    James Simon Wallis Hunt was a British Formula One racing driver best known for winning the 1976 World Drivers' Championship and his intense rivalry with Niki Lauda.
  • 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_69ca82f64c188190af4e1608036b865d completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb80c229708190b813f5e7e44e10d4 completed March 31, 2026, 8:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cde7fa87908190a504f8aaae125a7a completed April 2, 2026, 3:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cdebf944008190b7e758ac59257e22 completed April 2, 2026, 4:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cdeccedf4081909cab853ee1ff1b82 completed April 2, 2026, 4:13 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:02 p.m.