Triple

T13080243
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Merry Pranksters E310181 entity
Predicate member P10 FINISHED
Object Paul Foster
Paul Foster was a member of Ken Kesey's countercultural Merry Pranksters, known for their psychedelic bus trips and influence on 1960s American hippie culture.
E1029948 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: Paul Foster | Statement: [Merry Pranksters, member, Paul Foster]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Foster
Context triple: [Merry Pranksters, member, Paul Foster]
  • A. James Foster
    James Foster is an economist known for his influential work on poverty measurement and social welfare, including co-developing the widely used Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) poverty indices.
  • B. Paul Forster
    Paul Forster is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the global job search engine Indeed.
  • C. Paul Jesperson
    Paul Jesperson is an American former college basketball player best known for his memorable half-court buzzer-beater in the 2016 NCAA Tournament while playing for the Northern Iowa Panthers.
  • D. Paul Ferroll
    Paul Ferroll is a mid-19th-century psychological crime novel by Caroline Clive, notable for its early and unconventional portrayal of a seemingly respectable man who has committed murder.
  • E. Edward Ellett
    Edward Ellett was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the town of Ellettsville, Indiana, was named.
  • 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: Paul Foster
Triple: [Merry Pranksters, member, Paul Foster]
Generated description
Paul Foster was a member of Ken Kesey's countercultural Merry Pranksters, known for their psychedelic bus trips and influence on 1960s American hippie culture.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Foster
Target entity description: Paul Foster was a member of Ken Kesey's countercultural Merry Pranksters, known for their psychedelic bus trips and influence on 1960s American hippie culture.
  • A. James Foster
    James Foster is an economist known for his influential work on poverty measurement and social welfare, including co-developing the widely used Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) poverty indices.
  • B. Paul Forster
    Paul Forster is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the global job search engine Indeed.
  • C. Paul Jesperson
    Paul Jesperson is an American former college basketball player best known for his memorable half-court buzzer-beater in the 2016 NCAA Tournament while playing for the Northern Iowa Panthers.
  • D. Paul Ferroll
    Paul Ferroll is a mid-19th-century psychological crime novel by Caroline Clive, notable for its early and unconventional portrayal of a seemingly respectable man who has committed murder.
  • E. Edward Ellett
    Edward Ellett was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the town of Ellettsville, Indiana, was named.
  • 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_69d806a733548190989cfd4ce981ca33 completed April 9, 2026, 8:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98119cb7081908b78ffe83ec99851 completed April 10, 2026, 11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f70a227d2c81908da0089d0e0387c6 completed May 3, 2026, 8:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f70c000da081909297f3d24666b6a5 completed May 3, 2026, 8:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f70ce60a7081908f9498fcfec98e90 completed May 3, 2026, 8:52 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:01 p.m.