Triple

T12671206
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Steppenwolf Theatre Company E302686 entity
Predicate hasEnsembleMember P49020 FINISHED
Object Eric Simonson
Eric Simonson is an American director, playwright, and screenwriter known for his work in theater and film, including collaborations with Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
E1003885 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: Eric Simonson | Statement: [Steppenwolf Theatre Company, hasEnsembleMember, Eric Simonson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eric Simonson
Context triple: [Steppenwolf Theatre Company, hasEnsembleMember, Eric Simonson]
  • A. Ted Simon
    Ted Simon is a British travel writer best known for his round-the-world motorcycle journeys chronicled in the book "Jupiter's Travels."
  • B. Peter Bratt
    Peter Bratt is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for directing socially conscious independent films, including collaborations with his brother, actor Benjamin Bratt.
  • C. Eric Zimmerman
    Eric Zimmerman is a filmmaker and music video director known for creating visually distinctive videos for alternative and rock artists.
  • D. Richard Sohl
    Richard Sohl was an American pianist and keyboardist best known for his work with the Patti Smith Group and other influential punk and rock acts of the 1970s and 1980s.
  • E. Gary Richrath
    Gary Richrath was an American guitarist and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist and a key creative force behind the rock band REO Speedwagon during their classic era.
  • 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: Eric Simonson
Triple: [Steppenwolf Theatre Company, hasEnsembleMember, Eric Simonson]
Generated description
Eric Simonson is an American director, playwright, and screenwriter known for his work in theater and film, including collaborations with Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eric Simonson
Target entity description: Eric Simonson is an American director, playwright, and screenwriter known for his work in theater and film, including collaborations with Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
  • A. Ted Simon
    Ted Simon is a British travel writer best known for his round-the-world motorcycle journeys chronicled in the book "Jupiter's Travels."
  • B. Peter Bratt
    Peter Bratt is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for directing socially conscious independent films, including collaborations with his brother, actor Benjamin Bratt.
  • C. Eric Zimmerman
    Eric Zimmerman is a filmmaker and music video director known for creating visually distinctive videos for alternative and rock artists.
  • D. Richard Sohl
    Richard Sohl was an American pianist and keyboardist best known for his work with the Patti Smith Group and other influential punk and rock acts of the 1970s and 1980s.
  • E. Gary Richrath
    Gary Richrath was an American guitarist and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist and a key creative force behind the rock band REO Speedwagon during their classic era.
  • 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_69d7bdee64a08190801c6d470aefd723 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d961ae493481908f82e0d05dce20bd completed April 10, 2026, 8:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f68ead66bc819099c8d274d69a2022 completed May 2, 2026, 11:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f68fdd389881909e2132e3ce95d553 completed May 2, 2026, 11:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f69033a66481908bf4ae23fced5983 completed May 3, 2026, midnight
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:20 p.m.