Triple
T10808858
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John D. MacDonald |
E255041
|
entity |
| Predicate | givenName |
P17
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
John
John is the given name of the American novelist John D. MacDonald, best known for his crime and suspense fiction, including the Travis McGee series.
|
E888458
|
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 | Statement: [John D. MacDonald, givenName, John]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Context triple: [John D. MacDonald, givenName, John]
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A.
John
John is traditionally regarded as the author of the New Testament’s Book of Revelation, a prophetic and apocalyptic text in Christian scripture.
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B.
John
John is the first name of Johnny Evers, a Hall of Fame American Major League Baseball second baseman who starred for the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
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C.
John
John is the given name of John B. Watson, the influential American psychologist who founded behaviorism.
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D.
John
John is the given name of John Dustin Archbold, an American oil industry executive and key figure in the early history of Standard Oil.
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E.
John
John is the given name of John Brisker, an American professional basketball player known for his time in the ABA and NBA and his mysterious disappearance in the 1970s.
- 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 Triple: [John D. MacDonald, givenName, John]
Generated description
John is the given name of the American novelist John D. MacDonald, best known for his crime and suspense fiction, including the Travis McGee series.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Target entity description: John is the given name of the American novelist John D. MacDonald, best known for his crime and suspense fiction, including the Travis McGee series.
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A.
John
John is the given name of the renowned American author John Steinbeck, known for works such as "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Of Mice and Men."
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B.
John
John is the given name of the American novelist, short-story writer, and critic John Updike, renowned for his insightful portrayals of middle-class American life.
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C.
John
John is the given name of the American novelist and artist John Dos Passos, known for his modernist U.S.A. trilogy.
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D.
John
John is the first name of the American author and filmmaker Michael Crichton, known for works like "Jurassic Park" and "The Andromeda Strain."
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E.
John
John is the birth name of American author Jack London, famed for adventure novels like "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang."
- 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_69d6aa61c15c8190a1839550c56e75e1 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d733b60c6481909b043565a65f996d |
completed | April 9, 2026, 5:05 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69deb0ea2b6481909dfd94fe0c3c4499 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 9:26 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69deb384fb588190ae5d11a60fec0f53 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 9:37 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69deb4a2d4c48190a828262b1cc05b37 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 9:41 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:18 p.m.