Triple

T1186509
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography E25259 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object William Snyder
William Snyder is an American photojournalist and editor renowned for his powerful visual storytelling, which earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.
E177156 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: William Snyder | Statement: [Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, notableRecipient, William Snyder]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Snyder
Context triple: [Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, notableRecipient, William Snyder]
  • A. Hartland Snyder
    Hartland Snyder was an American theoretical physicist known for his early work on black hole physics and for being one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s notable doctoral students.
  • B. Patrick McClusky
    Patrick McClusky is an American local government official serving as the mayor of Homewood, Alabama.
  • C. John C. Brown
    John C. Brown is a political figure who served as Governor of California and resided in the California Governor's Mansion during his tenure.
  • D. James Phinney Baxter III
    James Phinney Baxter III was an American historian and educator who served as president of Williams College and later became a prominent government intelligence official during World War II.
  • E. John R. Steelman
    John R. Steelman was an American administrator and labor mediator who served as a top aide to President Harry S. Truman and became one of the most influential behind-the-scenes figures in the postwar White House.
  • 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: William Snyder
Triple: [Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, notableRecipient, William Snyder]
Generated description
William Snyder is an American photojournalist and editor renowned for his powerful visual storytelling, which earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Snyder
Target entity description: William Snyder is an American photojournalist and editor renowned for his powerful visual storytelling, which earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.
  • A. Hartland Snyder
    Hartland Snyder was an American theoretical physicist known for his early work on black hole physics and for being one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s notable doctoral students.
  • B. Patrick McClusky
    Patrick McClusky is an American local government official serving as the mayor of Homewood, Alabama.
  • C. John C. Brown
    John C. Brown is a political figure who served as Governor of California and resided in the California Governor's Mansion during his tenure.
  • D. James Phinney Baxter III
    James Phinney Baxter III was an American historian and educator who served as president of Williams College and later became a prominent government intelligence official during World War II.
  • E. John R. Steelman
    John R. Steelman was an American administrator and labor mediator who served as a top aide to President Harry S. Truman and became one of the most influential behind-the-scenes figures in the postwar White House.
  • 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_69a49427d98881908646d6c63b8cea1e completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bd53e4b48190abb2167f8074a6bc completed March 1, 2026, 10:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad36f482808190b9a999ebbdbabc2e completed March 8, 2026, 8:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad3812855881909b571d6a7a96d524 completed March 8, 2026, 8:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad38a4017c8190b2c5f1f0d1d9b5a5 completed March 8, 2026, 8:51 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.