Triple

T12512892
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Norman Howard E299124 entity
Predicate partner P1136 FINISHED
Object Esther Hoffman
Esther Hoffman is a fictional aspiring singer and love interest in the 1976 film "A Star Is Born," portrayed by Barbra Streisand.
E343509 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: Esther Hoffman | Statement: [John Norman Howard, partner, Esther Hoffman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Esther Hoffman
Context triple: [John Norman Howard, partner, Esther Hoffman]
  • A. Esther Hoffman
    Esther Hoffman is the ambitious and talented singer-songwriter portrayed by Barbra Streisand in the 1976 film "A Star Is Born," whose rise to fame intertwines with the tragic downfall of an aging rock star.
  • B. Esther Kreitman
    Esther Kreitman was a pioneering Yiddish writer and the older sister of Isaac Bashevis Singer, known for her psychologically rich portrayals of Jewish women's lives in Eastern Europe.
  • C. Esther Shemitz
    Esther Shemitz was an American artist and political activist best known for her involvement in leftist circles of the 1930s and her connection to the Alger Hiss–Whittaker Chambers espionage controversy.
  • D. Esther Raab
    Esther Raab was a Jewish Holocaust survivor known for escaping from the Sobibor extermination camp and later bearing witness to its atrocities.
  • E. Esther Roisman
    Esther Roisman was the wife of renowned American investigative journalist and independent publisher I.F. Stone.
  • 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: Esther Hoffman
Triple: [John Norman Howard, partner, Esther Hoffman]
Generated description
Esther Hoffman is a fictional aspiring singer and love interest in the 1976 film "A Star Is Born," portrayed by Barbra Streisand.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Esther Hoffman
Target entity description: Esther Hoffman is a fictional aspiring singer and love interest in the 1976 film "A Star Is Born," portrayed by Barbra Streisand.
  • A. Esther Hoffman chosen
    Esther Hoffman is the ambitious and talented singer-songwriter portrayed by Barbra Streisand in the 1976 film "A Star Is Born," whose rise to fame intertwines with the tragic downfall of an aging rock star.
  • B. Esther Kreitman
    Esther Kreitman was a pioneering Yiddish writer and the older sister of Isaac Bashevis Singer, known for her psychologically rich portrayals of Jewish women's lives in Eastern Europe.
  • C. Esther Shemitz
    Esther Shemitz was an American artist and political activist best known for her involvement in leftist circles of the 1930s and her connection to the Alger Hiss–Whittaker Chambers espionage controversy.
  • D. Esther Raab
    Esther Raab was a Jewish Holocaust survivor known for escaping from the Sobibor extermination camp and later bearing witness to its atrocities.
  • E. Esther Roisman
    Esther Roisman was the wife of renowned American investigative journalist and independent publisher I.F. Stone.
  • 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_69d6ada4cd388190ae3bbf83ff87057a completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9541e752c8190bf12d2b5a37b53df completed April 10, 2026, 7:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f72658fa6c81909b9785d710c418e0 completed May 3, 2026, 10:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f727512c94819091985c7942f40b31 completed May 3, 2026, 10:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f72b77d650819092c02f6488b2cfb2 completed May 3, 2026, 11:03 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:57 p.m.