Triple

T1254210
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Man Called Intrepid E26949 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object William Stevenson
William Stevenson was a British-born Canadian journalist and author best known for his bestselling World War II espionage history "A Man Called Intrepid."
E189737 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: William Stevenson | Statement: [A Man Called Intrepid, author, William Stevenson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Stevenson
Context triple: [A Man Called Intrepid, author, William Stevenson]
  • A. Andrew Cunningham
    Andrew Cunningham was a prominent British Royal Navy admiral of World War II, noted for his leadership in major Mediterranean campaigns and his role in Allied amphibious operations.
  • B. Robert Stevenson
    Robert Stevenson was a prominent Scottish civil engineer best known for designing and building numerous lighthouses around the Scottish coast in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • C. Charles Henry Marshall
    Charles Henry Marshall was an American businessman and member of New York high society, best known as the first husband of philanthropist and socialite Brooke Astor.
  • D. William Sims
    William Sims was a prominent U.S. Navy admiral and naval reformer known for modernizing gunnery and leading American naval forces in European waters during World War I.
  • E. John Scott
    John Scott was a notable historical figure whose legacy is honored through the John Scott Medal, an award recognizing significant contributions to science and the useful arts.
  • 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: William Stevenson
Triple: [A Man Called Intrepid, author, William Stevenson]
Generated description
William Stevenson was a British-born Canadian journalist and author best known for his bestselling World War II espionage history "A Man Called Intrepid."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Stevenson
Target entity description: William Stevenson was a British-born Canadian journalist and author best known for his bestselling World War II espionage history "A Man Called Intrepid."
  • A. Andrew Cunningham
    Andrew Cunningham was a prominent British Royal Navy admiral of World War II, noted for his leadership in major Mediterranean campaigns and his role in Allied amphibious operations.
  • B. Robert Stevenson
    Robert Stevenson was a prominent Scottish civil engineer best known for designing and building numerous lighthouses around the Scottish coast in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • C. Charles Henry Marshall
    Charles Henry Marshall was an American businessman and member of New York high society, best known as the first husband of philanthropist and socialite Brooke Astor.
  • D. William Sims
    William Sims was a prominent U.S. Navy admiral and naval reformer known for modernizing gunnery and leading American naval forces in European waters during World War I.
  • E. John Scott
    John Scott was a notable historical figure whose legacy is honored through the John Scott Medal, an award recognizing significant contributions to science and the useful arts.
  • 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_69a49487a9c48190ba9b05348fd1b53f completed March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bfa407a0819099399799a416152e completed March 1, 2026, 10:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad718af9a08190b16c7df72d1ef1d3 completed March 8, 2026, 12:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad73705bd081909c021e55f7c1882b completed March 8, 2026, 1:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad73d9746c8190b6d673bdb8c202d3 completed March 8, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:47 p.m.