Triple
T12208154
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Gwen Ifill |
E290887
|
entity |
| Predicate | familyName |
P18
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Ifill
Ifill is the surname of Gwen Ifill, the prominent American journalist, television newscaster, and author.
|
E494130
|
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: Ifill | Statement: [Gwen Ifill, familyName, Ifill]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ifill Context triple: [Gwen Ifill, familyName, Ifill]
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A.
Ezell
Ezell is the given name of Ezell Blair Jr., a civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who led the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-ins.
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B.
Okrika
Okrika is an Ijaw subgroup and coastal community in Rivers State, Nigeria, known historically for fishing, trade, and its role in the Niger Delta oil region.
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C.
Ken Ifill
Ken Ifill is a music producer best known for his work on the album "Broken Silence."
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D.
Tillman
Tillman is a surname most famously associated with Pat Tillman, the former NFL player who left his football career to enlist in the U.S. Army and was killed in Afghanistan.
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E.
Piper Dellums
Piper Dellums is an American writer, speaker, and activist whose real-life experiences with a South African exchange student inspired the Disney Channel film "The Color of Friendship."
- 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: Ifill Triple: [Gwen Ifill, familyName, Ifill]
Generated description
Ifill is the surname of Gwen Ifill, the prominent American journalist, television newscaster, and author.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ifill Target entity description: Ifill is the surname of Gwen Ifill, the prominent American journalist, television newscaster, and author.
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A.
Ezell
Ezell is the given name of Ezell Blair Jr., a civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who led the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-ins.
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B.
Okrika
Okrika is an Ijaw subgroup and coastal community in Rivers State, Nigeria, known historically for fishing, trade, and its role in the Niger Delta oil region.
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C.
Ken Ifill
chosen
Ken Ifill is a music producer best known for his work on the album "Broken Silence."
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D.
Tillman
Tillman is a surname most famously associated with Pat Tillman, the former NFL player who left his football career to enlist in the U.S. Army and was killed in Afghanistan.
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E.
Piper Dellums
Piper Dellums is an American writer, speaker, and activist whose real-life experiences with a South African exchange student inspired the Disney Channel film "The Color of Friendship."
- 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_69d6ab65923081909acfc61b7a612233 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d91c7d8f5c8190a46e9caa2a920fa9 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 3:51 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f60a9d2f0c81908352cd9f0167c6ab |
completed | May 2, 2026, 2:30 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69f60f2154c8819081f9cf6f51e5255b |
completed | May 2, 2026, 2:50 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69f60fe8c2ec8190af7c69dd17ea75fe |
completed | May 2, 2026, 2:53 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:51 p.m.