Triple

T10400537
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ring Lardner Jr. E245132 entity
Predicate sibling P363 FINISHED
Object John Lardner
John Lardner was an American sportswriter and journalist known for his witty, insightful columns and essays in publications such as The New Yorker during the mid-20th century.
E861655 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: John Lardner | Statement: [Ring Lardner Jr., sibling, John Lardner]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Lardner
Context triple: [Ring Lardner Jr., sibling, John Lardner]
  • A. Murray Kempton
    Murray Kempton was an American journalist, columnist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer known for his incisive political commentary and elegant prose.
  • B. Harold Ross
    Harold Ross was an American journalist and editor best known as the founding editor of the influential magazine The New Yorker.
  • C. Irving Lippman
    Irving Lippman was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous mid-20th-century films and television series.
  • D. Herbert L. Matthews
    Herbert L. Matthews was an influential American journalist and foreign correspondent for The New York Times, best known for his reporting on revolutionary movements, particularly in Cuba.
  • E. Joseph Alsop
    Joseph Alsop was a prominent mid-20th-century American journalist and political columnist known for his influential Washington commentary and close connections to U.S. political elites.
  • 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: John Lardner
Triple: [Ring Lardner Jr., sibling, John Lardner]
Generated description
John Lardner was an American sportswriter and journalist known for his witty, insightful columns and essays in publications such as The New Yorker during the mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Lardner
Target entity description: John Lardner was an American sportswriter and journalist known for his witty, insightful columns and essays in publications such as The New Yorker during the mid-20th century.
  • A. Murray Kempton
    Murray Kempton was an American journalist, columnist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer known for his incisive political commentary and elegant prose.
  • B. Harold Ross
    Harold Ross was an American journalist and editor best known as the founding editor of the influential magazine The New Yorker.
  • C. Irving Lippman
    Irving Lippman was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous mid-20th-century films and television series.
  • D. Herbert L. Matthews
    Herbert L. Matthews was an influential American journalist and foreign correspondent for The New York Times, best known for his reporting on revolutionary movements, particularly in Cuba.
  • E. Joseph Alsop
    Joseph Alsop was a prominent mid-20th-century American journalist and political columnist known for his influential Washington commentary and close connections to U.S. political elites.
  • 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_69d381b5116081908d85227bab6d3c0c completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4e9e2f11c8190b30695cba2975544 completed April 7, 2026, 11:26 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d7fbd13c888190b3a79a9aacb5291e completed April 9, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d822d597088190bf3dca85e1ddb890 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d859cc1aac8190ab232bb4e4e4fac1 completed April 10, 2026, 2 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:07 p.m.