Triple

T11553376
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Life of Samuel Johnson E273949 entity
Predicate portrays P264 FINISHED
Object Samuel Johnson’s conversation
Samuel Johnson’s conversation was famously brilliant, forceful, and wide-ranging, marked by sharp wit, moral seriousness, and a commanding presence that deeply impressed his contemporaries.
E56018 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: Samuel Johnson’s conversation | Statement: [Life of Samuel Johnson, portrays, Samuel Johnson’s conversation]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Johnson’s conversation
Context triple: [Life of Samuel Johnson, portrays, Samuel Johnson’s conversation]
  • A. Samuel Johnson
    Samuel Johnson was an 18th-century English writer, lexicographer, and critic best known for compiling *A Dictionary of the English Language* (1755), one of the most influential dictionaries in the history of English.
  • B. Of the Art of Conversation
    "Of the Art of Conversation" is a philosophical essay by Michel de Montaigne that reflects on the nature, value, and proper conduct of conversation in human life.
  • C. Samuel W. Johnson
    Samuel W. Johnson was a 19th-century American chemist and agricultural scientist who played a key role in organizing the chemical profession in the United States.
  • D. Discourse on the Arts and Sciences
    Discourse on the Arts and Sciences is an influential 1750 philosophical essay by Jean-Jacques Rousseau that argues the progress of arts and sciences has corrupted human morality rather than improved it.
  • E. Portrait of Samuel Johnson
    Portrait of Samuel Johnson is a renowned 18th-century painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds depicting the famous English writer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson.
  • 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: Samuel Johnson’s conversation
Triple: [Life of Samuel Johnson, portrays, Samuel Johnson’s conversation]
Generated description
Samuel Johnson’s conversation was famously brilliant, forceful, and wide-ranging, marked by sharp wit, moral seriousness, and a commanding presence that deeply impressed his contemporaries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Johnson’s conversation
Target entity description: Samuel Johnson’s conversation was famously brilliant, forceful, and wide-ranging, marked by sharp wit, moral seriousness, and a commanding presence that deeply impressed his contemporaries.
  • A. Samuel Johnson chosen
    Samuel Johnson was an 18th-century English writer, lexicographer, and critic best known for compiling *A Dictionary of the English Language* (1755), one of the most influential dictionaries in the history of English.
  • B. Of the Art of Conversation
    "Of the Art of Conversation" is a philosophical essay by Michel de Montaigne that reflects on the nature, value, and proper conduct of conversation in human life.
  • C. Samuel W. Johnson
    Samuel W. Johnson was a 19th-century American chemist and agricultural scientist who played a key role in organizing the chemical profession in the United States.
  • D. Discourse on the Arts and Sciences
    Discourse on the Arts and Sciences is an influential 1750 philosophical essay by Jean-Jacques Rousseau that argues the progress of arts and sciences has corrupted human morality rather than improved it.
  • E. Portrait of Samuel Johnson
    Portrait of Samuel Johnson is a renowned 18th-century painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds depicting the famous English writer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d6aae4dfa48190a3ab0b19a159a3c5 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d88a85b9ac8190a57c1fdaeacbe3d6 completed April 10, 2026, 5:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e6e851a6688190996580a077496833 completed April 21, 2026, 3 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e6ef93e7d88190af3853b82de23c1b completed April 21, 2026, 3:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e6f9144afc819081ee7f78e32ad39a completed April 21, 2026, 4:12 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:37 p.m.