Triple

T10514918
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The New Tenants E248006 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object David Rakoff
David Rakoff was a Canadian-born American writer, humorist, and essayist known for his darkly comic, self-deprecating storytelling and frequent contributions to This American Life.
 E868297 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: David Rakoff | Statement: [The New Tenants, starring, David Rakoff]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David Rakoff
Context triple: [The New Tenants, starring, David Rakoff]
  • A. Sam Lipsyte
    Sam Lipsyte is an American novelist and short story writer known for his darkly comic, satirical fiction exploring contemporary alienation and absurdity.
  • B. Nicholson Baker
    Nicholson Baker is an American novelist and essayist known for his meticulous attention to everyday detail, inventive prose style, and works such as "The Mezzanine" and "Vox."
  • C. David Greenwalt
    David Greenwalt is an American television producer, writer, and director best known for his work on genre series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel.
  • D. Adam Haslett
    Adam Haslett is an American author and journalist known for his critically acclaimed fiction exploring themes of mental illness, family, and contemporary politics.
  • E. Joshua Cohen
    Joshua Cohen is an American political philosopher known for his work on democratic theory, deliberative democracy, and justice, often engaging with and extending the ideas of John Rawls.
  • 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: David Rakoff
Triple: [The New Tenants, starring, David Rakoff]
Generated description
David Rakoff was a Canadian-born American writer, humorist, and essayist known for his darkly comic, self-deprecating storytelling and frequent contributions to This American Life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David Rakoff
Target entity description: David Rakoff was a Canadian-born American writer, humorist, and essayist known for his darkly comic, self-deprecating storytelling and frequent contributions to This American Life.
  • A. Sam Lipsyte
    Sam Lipsyte is an American novelist and short story writer known for his darkly comic, satirical fiction exploring contemporary alienation and absurdity.
  • B. Nicholson Baker
    Nicholson Baker is an American novelist and essayist known for his meticulous attention to everyday detail, inventive prose style, and works such as "The Mezzanine" and "Vox."
  • C. David Greenwalt
    David Greenwalt is an American television producer, writer, and director best known for his work on genre series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel.
  • D. Adam Haslett
    Adam Haslett is an American author and journalist known for his critically acclaimed fiction exploring themes of mental illness, family, and contemporary politics.
  • E. Joshua Cohen
    Joshua Cohen is an American political philosopher known for his work on democratic theory, deliberative democracy, and justice, often engaging with and extending the ideas of John Rawls.
  • 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_69d381c4aa948190942e1d803143fb0e completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d509cbacb08190a446c864b97823ad completed April 7, 2026, 1:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d90df141488190a2674546aa437de8 completed April 10, 2026, 2:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d9107dc8448190998c4044f68a775e completed April 10, 2026, 3 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d911e7d2dc8190a67b2513607fdf98 completed April 10, 2026, 3:06 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:27 p.m.