Triple

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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]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John B. Watson, the influential American psychologist who founded behaviorism.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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."
  • 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.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of the American novelist and artist John Dos Passos, known for his modernist U.S.A. trilogy.
  • 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."
  • 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.