Triple

T13769704
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mpho Tutu van Furth E330846 entity
Predicate coAuthorWith P398 FINISHED
Object Allister Sparks
Allister Sparks was a prominent South African journalist, editor, and author known for his incisive reporting and commentary on apartheid and the country’s transition to democracy.
E1060759 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: Allister Sparks | Statement: [Mpho Tutu van Furth, coAuthorWith, Allister Sparks]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Allister Sparks
Context triple: [Mpho Tutu van Furth, coAuthorWith, Allister Sparks]
  • A. Martin Kendall
    Martin Kendall is a character from the American sitcom "The Cosby Show," known as the husband of Denise Huxtable and a member of the extended Huxtable family.
  • B. Gary Harkness
    Gary Harkness is the introspective college football player and narrator of Don DeLillo’s novel "End Zone," through whom themes of war, language, and existential anxiety are explored.
  • C. Alistair Smythe
    Alistair Smythe is a Marvel Comics supervillain and scientific genius best known as an enemy of Spider-Man and the creator of the deadly Spider-Slayer robots.
  • D. Scott Banister
    Scott Banister is an American entrepreneur and angel investor known for co-founding IronPort and early involvement with companies like PayPal and Facebook.
  • E. Jeremy Carver
    Jeremy Carver is a television writer and producer best known for his work on genre series such as Supernatural and for serving as showrunner on DC's Doom Patrol.
  • 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: Allister Sparks
Triple: [Mpho Tutu van Furth, coAuthorWith, Allister Sparks]
Generated description
Allister Sparks was a prominent South African journalist, editor, and author known for his incisive reporting and commentary on apartheid and the country’s transition to democracy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Allister Sparks
Target entity description: Allister Sparks was a prominent South African journalist, editor, and author known for his incisive reporting and commentary on apartheid and the country’s transition to democracy.
  • A. Martin Kendall
    Martin Kendall is a character from the American sitcom "The Cosby Show," known as the husband of Denise Huxtable and a member of the extended Huxtable family.
  • B. Gary Harkness
    Gary Harkness is the introspective college football player and narrator of Don DeLillo’s novel "End Zone," through whom themes of war, language, and existential anxiety are explored.
  • C. Alistair Smythe
    Alistair Smythe is a Marvel Comics supervillain and scientific genius best known as an enemy of Spider-Man and the creator of the deadly Spider-Slayer robots.
  • D. Scott Banister
    Scott Banister is an American entrepreneur and angel investor known for co-founding IronPort and early involvement with companies like PayPal and Facebook.
  • E. Jeremy Carver
    Jeremy Carver is a television writer and producer best known for his work on genre series such as Supernatural and for serving as showrunner on DC's Doom Patrol.
  • 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_69d81c583b0081909e408a17db517a21 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de0233ecc48190b934f085d2501eb1 completed April 14, 2026, 9 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7b0724ab481908448d71a1bd02253 completed May 3, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7b0f912f081908084042860c922cb completed May 3, 2026, 8:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7b16a43188190968d5cdf32e447ec completed May 3, 2026, 8:34 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:10 p.m.