Triple

T11991678
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Baldessari E285419 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line
"Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line" is a conceptual photographic work by John Baldessari that documents repeated attempts to capture three tossed balls forming a straight line in midair, playfully exploring chance, order, and the nature of artistic process.
E957422 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: Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line | Statement: [John Baldessari, notableWork, Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line
Context triple: [John Baldessari, notableWork, Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line]
  • A. Buffon’s needle problem
    Buffon’s needle problem is a classic probability puzzle that involves dropping a needle on a lined surface to estimate the value of π.
  • B. Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars
    Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars is the 1988 debut studio album by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, known for its blend of folk-rock and alternative pop and the hit single "What I Am."
  • C. 3 Line
    The 3 Line is a New York City Subway service that runs on the IRT Eastern Parkway and Lenox Avenue lines, connecting Brooklyn with Manhattan and the Bronx.
  • D. Wacho of the Gausian line
    Wacho of the Gausian line was a 6th-century Lombard king who seized power by toppling the Lething dynasty and consolidating a new ruling house in Lombard history.
  • E. Happy Ending problem
    The Happy Ending problem is a famous combinatorial geometry question that investigates the minimum number of points in general position in the plane needed to guarantee the existence of a convex polygon with a given number of vertices.
  • 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: Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line
Triple: [John Baldessari, notableWork, Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line]
Generated description
"Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line" is a conceptual photographic work by John Baldessari that documents repeated attempts to capture three tossed balls forming a straight line in midair, playfully exploring chance, order, and the nature of artistic process.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line
Target entity description: "Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line" is a conceptual photographic work by John Baldessari that documents repeated attempts to capture three tossed balls forming a straight line in midair, playfully exploring chance, order, and the nature of artistic process.
  • A. Buffon’s needle problem
    Buffon’s needle problem is a classic probability puzzle that involves dropping a needle on a lined surface to estimate the value of π.
  • B. Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars
    Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars is the 1988 debut studio album by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, known for its blend of folk-rock and alternative pop and the hit single "What I Am."
  • C. 3 Line
    The 3 Line is a New York City Subway service that runs on the IRT Eastern Parkway and Lenox Avenue lines, connecting Brooklyn with Manhattan and the Bronx.
  • D. Wacho of the Gausian line
    Wacho of the Gausian line was a 6th-century Lombard king who seized power by toppling the Lething dynasty and consolidating a new ruling house in Lombard history.
  • E. Happy Ending problem
    The Happy Ending problem is a famous combinatorial geometry question that investigates the minimum number of points in general position in the plane needed to guarantee the existence of a convex polygon with a given number of vertices.
  • 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_69d6ab44a77c8190a652f4b27164e4ef completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d903b11ac481909866b611380792e7 completed April 10, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f47257911481909d6bd72535eefdbd completed May 1, 2026, 9:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f47cb7f9b4819091e6df4b894359bb completed May 1, 2026, 10:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f47e6b8234819087fa1c53406b5f62 completed May 1, 2026, 10:20 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:46 p.m.