Triple

T13004463
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Christopher Hart E322248 entity
Predicate educatedBy P335 FINISHED
Object Dai Vernon
Dai Vernon was a legendary Canadian magician and sleight-of-hand artist, often called "The Professor," who profoundly influenced modern close-up magic.
 E1016151 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: Dai Vernon | Statement: [Christopher Hart, educatedBy, Dai Vernon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Dai Vernon
Context triple: [Christopher Hart, educatedBy, Dai Vernon]
  • A. Melvin Gardner
    Melvin Gardner was the brother of famed American actress Ava Gardner and a member of the Gardner family from North Carolina.
  • B. Harry Kesten
    Harry Kesten was a prominent mathematician known for his influential work in probability theory, particularly in percolation theory and random walks.
  • C. Joseph Wiseman
    Joseph Wiseman was a Canadian character actor best known for portraying the titular villain in the first James Bond film, "Dr. No."
  • D. Martin Gardner
    Martin Gardner was an American popular mathematics and science writer, skeptic, and magician known for his long-running "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American and his influential work debunking pseudoscience.
  • E. Ken Sallows
    Ken Sallows is an Australian film editor known for his work on numerous feature films and television productions.
  • 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: Dai Vernon
Triple: [Christopher Hart, educatedBy, Dai Vernon]
Generated description
Dai Vernon was a legendary Canadian magician and sleight-of-hand artist, often called "The Professor," who profoundly influenced modern close-up magic.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Dai Vernon
Target entity description: Dai Vernon was a legendary Canadian magician and sleight-of-hand artist, often called "The Professor," who profoundly influenced modern close-up magic.
  • A. Melvin Gardner
    Melvin Gardner was the brother of famed American actress Ava Gardner and a member of the Gardner family from North Carolina.
  • B. Harry Kesten
    Harry Kesten was a prominent mathematician known for his influential work in probability theory, particularly in percolation theory and random walks.
  • C. Joseph Wiseman
    Joseph Wiseman was a Canadian character actor best known for portraying the titular villain in the first James Bond film, "Dr. No."
  • D. Martin Gardner
    Martin Gardner was an American popular mathematics and science writer, skeptic, and magician known for his long-running "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American and his influential work debunking pseudoscience.
  • E. Ken Sallows
    Ken Sallows is an Australian film editor known for his work on numerous feature films and television productions.
  • 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_69d807657e8c8190bd9435ee2f823845 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d97e9a2a448190968833354280e474 completed April 10, 2026, 10:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6c107f990819093042560b1bc4473 completed May 3, 2026, 3:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6c43bc75c8190887b8135fbc8bbb5 completed May 3, 2026, 3:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6c50cf3c08190b1ef6379f1f96201 completed May 3, 2026, 3:46 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 8:47 p.m.