Triple

T1353933
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Christopher Hitchens E28943 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object Alexander Hitchens
Alexander Hitchens is the son of the late British-American author and polemicist Christopher Hitchens.
 E234331 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: Alexander Hitchens | Statement: [Christopher Hitchens, child, Alexander Hitchens]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alexander Hitchens
Context triple: [Christopher Hitchens, child, Alexander Hitchens]
  • A. Alexander Haddow
    Alexander Haddow was a Scottish epidemiologist and virologist noted for his pioneering research on insect-borne viruses, particularly in Africa.
  • B. Alexander Parris
    Alexander Parris was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer best known for his austere Greek Revival and early granite public buildings in New England.
  • C. Nicholas Hughes
    Nicholas Hughes was the son of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, who became a respected fisheries biologist before his tragic death in 2009.
  • D. David Higgs
    David Higgs is a British cinematographer known for his work on feature films and television, including the crime film "RocknRolla."
  • E. Antony Jameson
    Antony Jameson is a prominent aerospace engineer and computational fluid dynamics pioneer known for developing influential numerical methods and software for aerodynamic analysis and aircraft design.
  • 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: Alexander Hitchens
Triple: [Christopher Hitchens, child, Alexander Hitchens]
Generated description
Alexander Hitchens is the son of the late British-American author and polemicist Christopher Hitchens.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alexander Hitchens
Target entity description: Alexander Hitchens is the son of the late British-American author and polemicist Christopher Hitchens.
  • A. Alexander Haddow
    Alexander Haddow was a Scottish epidemiologist and virologist noted for his pioneering research on insect-borne viruses, particularly in Africa.
  • B. Alexander Parris
    Alexander Parris was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer best known for his austere Greek Revival and early granite public buildings in New England.
  • C. Nicholas Hughes
    Nicholas Hughes was the son of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, who became a respected fisheries biologist before his tragic death in 2009.
  • D. David Higgs
    David Higgs is a British cinematographer known for his work on feature films and television, including the crime film "RocknRolla."
  • E. Antony Jameson
    Antony Jameson is a prominent aerospace engineer and computational fluid dynamics pioneer known for developing influential numerical methods and software for aerodynamic analysis and aircraft design.
  • 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_69a498571d248190a0ac9eb02d97097f completed March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c26e916c8190b4b324df87f4c121 completed March 1, 2026, 10:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae3037944c8190b2ced5f5ca539260 completed March 9, 2026, 2:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae3149922c819085fb2af51d53304c completed March 9, 2026, 2:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae31a67eb08190a3ef64e83301fabc completed March 9, 2026, 2:34 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:56 p.m.