Triple

T12372178
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Elston Howard E295029 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Elston Gene Howard
Elston Gene Howard was an American Major League Baseball catcher and the first African American player on the New York Yankees, known for his All-Star career and 1963 American League MVP award.
E978148 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: Elston Gene Howard | Statement: [Elston Howard, fullName, Elston Gene Howard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elston Gene Howard
Context triple: [Elston Howard, fullName, Elston Gene Howard]
  • A. George Stillman
    George Stillman was a notable individual significant enough to have the Stillman Trail named in his honor, likely for his contributions to the local area or to outdoor recreation.
  • B. Wendell Burton
    Wendell Burton was an American actor best known for his breakout role opposite Liza Minnelli in the 1969 film "The Sterile Cuckoo."
  • C. Clifton McNeely
    Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach known for being the first overall pick in the inaugural 1947 BAA (now NBA) draft.
  • D. Lloyd Haynes
    Lloyd Haynes was an American actor best known for his television work in the 1960s and 1970s, particularly for his role as a schoolteacher on the series "Room 222."
  • E. Russ Hodges
    Russ Hodges was a prominent American sportscaster best known as the longtime radio and television voice of the New York and San Francisco Giants and for his iconic call of Bobby Thomson’s 1951 “Shot Heard ’Round the World.”
  • 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: Elston Gene Howard
Triple: [Elston Howard, fullName, Elston Gene Howard]
Generated description
Elston Gene Howard was an American Major League Baseball catcher and the first African American player on the New York Yankees, known for his All-Star career and 1963 American League MVP award.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elston Gene Howard
Target entity description: Elston Gene Howard was an American Major League Baseball catcher and the first African American player on the New York Yankees, known for his All-Star career and 1963 American League MVP award.
  • A. George Stillman
    George Stillman was a notable individual significant enough to have the Stillman Trail named in his honor, likely for his contributions to the local area or to outdoor recreation.
  • B. Wendell Burton
    Wendell Burton was an American actor best known for his breakout role opposite Liza Minnelli in the 1969 film "The Sterile Cuckoo."
  • C. Clifton McNeely
    Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach known for being the first overall pick in the inaugural 1947 BAA (now NBA) draft.
  • D. Lloyd Haynes
    Lloyd Haynes was an American actor best known for his television work in the 1960s and 1970s, particularly for his role as a schoolteacher on the series "Room 222."
  • E. Russ Hodges
    Russ Hodges was a prominent American sportscaster best known as the longtime radio and television voice of the New York and San Francisco Giants and for his iconic call of Bobby Thomson’s 1951 “Shot Heard ’Round the World.”
  • 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_69d6ab6d8a4081908636601e69ddf262 completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d93fa7c9ec81908c685612994543e3 completed April 10, 2026, 6:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f62abfd9c081909803691d3fc4f149 completed May 2, 2026, 4:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f62be4de888190aac94d441748d295 completed May 2, 2026, 4:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f62d4d0b8881908aa6b67db7d14609 completed May 2, 2026, 4:58 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:54 p.m.