Triple

T1179453
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject E. Howard Hunt E25101 entity
Predicate usedPseudonym P3799 FINISHED
Object David St. John
David St. John is a pseudonym used by E. Howard Hunt, the American intelligence officer and author involved in the Watergate scandal.
E155185 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 St. John | Statement: [E. Howard Hunt, usedPseudonym, David St. John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David St. John
Context triple: [E. Howard Hunt, usedPseudonym, David St. John]
  • A. Curt Fraser
    Curt Fraser is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and coach best known as the first head coach in Atlanta Thrashers franchise history.
  • B. Brian VanDeMark
    Brian VanDeMark is an American historian and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War, including coauthoring influential studies of that conflict.
  • C. Richard Stolley
    Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
  • D. Stuart Delery
    Stuart Delery is an American lawyer who served as White House Counsel to President Joe Biden and previously held senior roles in the U.S. Department of Justice.
  • E. Gordon Malloy
    Gordon Malloy is a wisecracking, skilled helmsman and loyal crew member aboard the exploratory spaceship in the sci-fi comedy-drama series "The Orville."
  • 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 St. John
Triple: [E. Howard Hunt, usedPseudonym, David St. John]
Generated description
David St. John is a pseudonym used by E. Howard Hunt, the American intelligence officer and author involved in the Watergate scandal.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David St. John
Target entity description: David St. John is a pseudonym used by E. Howard Hunt, the American intelligence officer and author involved in the Watergate scandal.
  • A. Curt Fraser
    Curt Fraser is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and coach best known as the first head coach in Atlanta Thrashers franchise history.
  • B. Brian VanDeMark
    Brian VanDeMark is an American historian and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War, including coauthoring influential studies of that conflict.
  • C. Richard Stolley
    Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
  • D. Stuart Delery
    Stuart Delery is an American lawyer who served as White House Counsel to President Joe Biden and previously held senior roles in the U.S. Department of Justice.
  • E. Gordon Malloy
    Gordon Malloy is a wisecracking, skilled helmsman and loyal crew member aboard the exploratory spaceship in the sci-fi comedy-drama series "The Orville."
  • 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_69a494267b4c819088c97a59182bf56a completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bd1226fc819083d526ecd22af8ef completed March 1, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acce59fe3c8190a07d84c570b7b2fe completed March 8, 2026, 1:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69accecd233c8190bebf5395e8dd5961 completed March 8, 2026, 1:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69accf2c65188190844bcd1c5efa563a completed March 8, 2026, 1:21 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.