Triple
T10205977
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Inventor and the Tycoon |
E242194
|
entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Edward Ball |
E242194
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Edward Ball | Statement: [The Inventor and the Tycoon, author, Edward Ball]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Ball Context triple: [The Inventor and the Tycoon, author, Edward Ball]
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A.
Edward Ball
chosen
Edward Ball is an American author and historian best known for his works exploring race, slavery, and his own family's ties to the antebellum South, including the National Book Award–winning "Slaves in the Family."
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B.
Thomas Charles Fuller
Thomas Charles Fuller was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Maine.
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C.
Taylor Branch
Taylor Branch is an American historian and author best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning trilogy on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement.
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D.
Charles Allen
Charles Allen was a prominent 19th-century American politician and jurist from Massachusetts known for his strong anti-slavery stance and leadership in early anti-slavery political movements.
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E.
Thomas Fuller
Thomas Fuller was a 19th-century Canadian-born architect best known for designing major public buildings in North America, including prominent government structures.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d381ae26c48190985abd0e25ee5d04 |
completed | April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d395f6298c8190a4a0ad9770f10e80 |
completed | April 6, 2026, 11:16 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d71c77f65c8190862fde1c2fae045b |
completed | April 9, 2026, 3:26 a.m. |
Created at: April 6, 2026, 10:50 a.m.