Triple

T11513759
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jacob Riis E272978 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Riis
Riis is a Danish surname most famously associated with Jacob Riis, the pioneering social reformer and photojournalist who exposed the harsh living conditions of New York City's poor in the late 19th century.
 E930598 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: Riis | Statement: [Jacob Riis, familyName, Riis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Riis
Context triple: [Jacob Riis, familyName, Riis]
  • A. Riasti
    Riasti is a regional dialect of the Saraiki language spoken primarily in parts of southern Punjab, Pakistan.
  • B. Reis
    Reis was an Ottoman naval rank and title roughly equivalent to captain or chief commander of a ship or small fleet.
  • C. Rausu
    Rausu is a small coastal town on Japan’s Shiretoko Peninsula, known for its rich marine wildlife, drift ice sightseeing, and access to the remote natural landscapes of eastern Hokkaido.
  • D. Karosta
    Karosta is a historic former military port district in the Latvian city of Liepāja, known for its Tsarist-era fortifications, Soviet naval heritage, and distinctive coastal landscape.
  • E. Rava
    Rava was a prominent fourth-century Babylonian Talmudic sage whose legal debates with his colleague Abaye are central to rabbinic Jewish law and scholarship.
  • 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: Riis
Triple: [Jacob Riis, familyName, Riis]
Generated description
Riis is a Danish surname most famously associated with Jacob Riis, the pioneering social reformer and photojournalist who exposed the harsh living conditions of New York City's poor in the late 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Riis
Target entity description: Riis is a Danish surname most famously associated with Jacob Riis, the pioneering social reformer and photojournalist who exposed the harsh living conditions of New York City's poor in the late 19th century.
  • A. Riasti
    Riasti is a regional dialect of the Saraiki language spoken primarily in parts of southern Punjab, Pakistan.
  • B. Reis
    Reis was an Ottoman naval rank and title roughly equivalent to captain or chief commander of a ship or small fleet.
  • C. Rausu
    Rausu is a small coastal town on Japan’s Shiretoko Peninsula, known for its rich marine wildlife, drift ice sightseeing, and access to the remote natural landscapes of eastern Hokkaido.
  • D. Karosta
    Karosta is a historic former military port district in the Latvian city of Liepāja, known for its Tsarist-era fortifications, Soviet naval heritage, and distinctive coastal landscape.
  • E. Rava
    Rava was a prominent fourth-century Babylonian Talmudic sage whose legal debates with his colleague Abaye are central to rabbinic Jewish law and scholarship.
  • 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_69d6aae2c3748190bed2ea50dfb160dc completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d86db8bf9c8190820c289e6b0c3873 completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e625143a608190a1119b30c08df0fd completed April 20, 2026, 1:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e62cf44018819094818f11ac653763 completed April 20, 2026, 1:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e674c3a98c8190b32dc6879cb3a5f9 completed April 20, 2026, 6:47 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:36 p.m.