Triple

T11934847
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Playwrights Workshop E284010 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumni P51 FINISHED
Object John Steppling
John Steppling is an American playwright and screenwriter known for his dark, minimalist dramas and contributions to independent theater and film.
E998105 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 Steppling | Statement: [Playwrights Workshop, hasNotableAlumni, John Steppling]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Steppling
Context triple: [Playwrights Workshop, hasNotableAlumni, John Steppling]
  • A. Richard Bristow
    Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
  • B. David Stephens
    David Stephens is a central character in the 1994 British dark comedy thriller film "Shallow Grave," known for his increasingly unhinged behavior after he and his flatmates discover a dead tenant's cash-filled suitcase.
  • C. Ronald Stephens
    Ronald Stephens is a private individual known primarily as a relative of Wren Alexander Stephens.
  • D. John Shipton
    John Shipton is an Australian activist best known as the father of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and a prominent campaigner for his son's freedom.
  • E. Robert Stephens
    Robert Stephens is the anglicized name of Robert Estienne, a renowned 16th-century French printer and classical scholar noted for his critical editions of the Bible and Latin texts.
  • 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 Steppling
Triple: [Playwrights Workshop, hasNotableAlumni, John Steppling]
Generated description
John Steppling is an American playwright and screenwriter known for his dark, minimalist dramas and contributions to independent theater and film.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Steppling
Target entity description: John Steppling is an American playwright and screenwriter known for his dark, minimalist dramas and contributions to independent theater and film.
  • A. Richard Bristow
    Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
  • B. David Stephens
    David Stephens is a central character in the 1994 British dark comedy thriller film "Shallow Grave," known for his increasingly unhinged behavior after he and his flatmates discover a dead tenant's cash-filled suitcase.
  • C. Ronald Stephens
    Ronald Stephens is a private individual known primarily as a relative of Wren Alexander Stephens.
  • D. John Shipton
    John Shipton is an Australian activist best known as the father of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and a prominent campaigner for his son's freedom.
  • E. Robert Stephens
    Robert Stephens is the anglicized name of Robert Estienne, a renowned 16th-century French printer and classical scholar noted for his critical editions of the Bible and Latin texts.
  • 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_69d6ab2ce9c48190b5d39511b524f666 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d90306fcf48190a963d2d1932288d1 completed April 10, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6717c2d848190b702470e6bcead2d completed May 2, 2026, 9:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f675bd9e2c8190920e286cc07b7e46 completed May 2, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6768236748190928aa8b8f500b49d completed May 2, 2026, 10:11 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:45 p.m.