Triple

T12771951
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject E. H. Shepard E305267 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Howard
Howard is the given first name of English illustrator E. H. Shepard, best known for his classic drawings in "Winnie-the-Pooh" and "The Wind in the Willows."
E1002966 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: Howard | Statement: [E. H. Shepard, givenName, Howard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard
Context triple: [E. H. Shepard, givenName, Howard]
  • A. Howard
    Howard is the given name of the influential American film director, producer, and screenwriter Howard Hawks.
  • B. Howard
    Howard is a young boy who serves as a minor but symbolically important character in the play "Inherit the Wind," representing the town’s impressionable youth amid the evolution-versus-creationism trial.
  • C. Howard
    Howard is one of Sethe’s sons in Toni Morrison’s novel "Beloved," a child whose life is shaped by the trauma and legacy of slavery.
  • D. Howard
    Howard is the middle name of Robert H. Grubbs, the Nobel Prize–winning American chemist renowned for his work on olefin metathesis.
  • E. Howard
    Howard is a character in Kenneth Lonergan's play "The Waverly Gallery," serving as a key figure in the story's exploration of family, memory, and aging.
  • 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: Howard
Triple: [E. H. Shepard, givenName, Howard]
Generated description
Howard is the given first name of English illustrator E. H. Shepard, best known for his classic drawings in "Winnie-the-Pooh" and "The Wind in the Willows."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard
Target entity description: Howard is the given first name of English illustrator E. H. Shepard, best known for his classic drawings in "Winnie-the-Pooh" and "The Wind in the Willows."
  • A. Howard
    Howard is the given first name of Ward Cunningham, the American computer programmer best known for creating the first wiki.
  • B. Howard
    Howard is the given first name of Duane Allman, the influential American guitarist and co-founder of the Allman Brothers Band.
  • C. Howard
    Howard is a common English surname shared by numerous notable figures across entertainment, politics, and other fields.
  • D. Howard
    Howard is the given name of the influential American film director, producer, and screenwriter Howard Hawks.
  • E. Howard
    Howard is a masculine given name of Old English origin meaning "high guardian" or "noble watchman," borne by numerous notable figures across politics, arts, and academia.
  • 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_69d7bdf2b43c819098ae5aa68e61ea58 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96df5b68481908a5d40516b09be52 completed April 10, 2026, 9:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f684fcd4b48190ab610efffcbd1546 completed May 2, 2026, 11:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f689e108cc819097bacb28f6bd9a9b completed May 2, 2026, 11:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f68adcfabc8190a85624e2f1b0bafb completed May 2, 2026, 11:38 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:28 p.m.