Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! E295314 entity
Predicate panelistsInclude P73409 FINISHED
Object Roxanne Roberts
Roxanne Roberts is an American journalist and longtime Washington Post reporter known for her coverage of Washington society and her regular appearances as a panelist on NPR’s news quiz show "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!".
E1017292 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: Roxanne Roberts | Statement: [Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, panelistsInclude, Roxanne Roberts]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roxanne Roberts
Context triple: [Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, panelistsInclude, Roxanne Roberts]
  • A. Roxanne Rogers
    Roxanne Rogers is the adopted daughter of American actor and musician Charles "Buddy" Rogers.
  • B. Sarah Roberts
    Sarah Roberts is known as the spouse of Thomas Bond.
  • C. Roxanne Simpson
    Roxanne Simpson is a fictional character from the "Ghost Rider" film series, known as Johnny Blaze’s love interest and a television reporter.
  • D. Rochelle Humes
    Rochelle Humes is a British singer, television presenter, and entrepreneur best known as a member of the girl group The Saturdays and for hosting various UK TV shows.
  • E. Kelly Roberts
    Kelly Roberts is a businesswoman best known for owning and overseeing the historic Mission Inn Hotel & Spa in Riverside, California.
  • 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: Roxanne Roberts
Triple: [Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, panelistsInclude, Roxanne Roberts]
Generated description
Roxanne Roberts is an American journalist and longtime Washington Post reporter known for her coverage of Washington society and her regular appearances as a panelist on NPR’s news quiz show "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!".
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roxanne Roberts
Target entity description: Roxanne Roberts is an American journalist and longtime Washington Post reporter known for her coverage of Washington society and her regular appearances as a panelist on NPR’s news quiz show "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!".
  • A. Roxanne Rogers
    Roxanne Rogers is the adopted daughter of American actor and musician Charles "Buddy" Rogers.
  • B. Sarah Roberts
    Sarah Roberts is known as the spouse of Thomas Bond.
  • C. Roxanne Simpson
    Roxanne Simpson is a fictional character from the "Ghost Rider" film series, known as Johnny Blaze’s love interest and a television reporter.
  • D. Rochelle Humes
    Rochelle Humes is a British singer, television presenter, and entrepreneur best known as a member of the girl group The Saturdays and for hosting various UK TV shows.
  • E. Kelly Roberts
    Kelly Roberts is a businesswoman best known for owning and overseeing the historic Mission Inn Hotel & Spa in Riverside, California.
  • 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_69d6ad9cac2c81908e8a7bed82d1e21d completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d960c2e5b88190a7cc16002b218d8a completed April 10, 2026, 8:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6cbb096d881908dfd2a7126632d96 completed May 3, 2026, 4:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6cd3d5090819091b65f544ad139fd completed May 3, 2026, 4:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6cdc8d52c819083717a455d589646 completed May 3, 2026, 4:23 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 11:48 p.m.