Triple

T13946362
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Realism with a Human Face E335394 entity
Predicate hasContributor P4244 FINISHED
Object James Conant
James Conant is an American philosopher known for his influential work on Wittgenstein, skepticism, and the tradition of philosophical realism.
E1070537 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: James Conant | Statement: [Realism with a Human Face, hasContributor, James Conant]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Conant
Context triple: [Realism with a Human Face, hasContributor, James Conant]
  • A. James B. Conant
    James B. Conant was an American chemist, educator, and diplomat who served as president of Harvard University and played a major role in U.S. scientific and military policy during World War II.
  • B. William J. Hutchins
    William J. Hutchins was a prominent 19th-century Texas businessman and civic leader after whom the city of Hutchins, Texas, is named.
  • C. Charles W. Eliot
    Charles W. Eliot was a prominent American academic and long-serving president of Harvard University who played a major role in modernizing higher education in the United States.
  • D. William Maynard Hutchins
    William Maynard Hutchins is an American translator and scholar best known for translating major works of modern Arabic literature, including Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy.
  • E. Stilson Hutchins
    Stilson Hutchins was an American newspaper publisher best known as the founder of The Washington Post.
  • 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: James Conant
Triple: [Realism with a Human Face, hasContributor, James Conant]
Generated description
James Conant is an American philosopher known for his influential work on Wittgenstein, skepticism, and the tradition of philosophical realism.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Conant
Target entity description: James Conant is an American philosopher known for his influential work on Wittgenstein, skepticism, and the tradition of philosophical realism.
  • A. James B. Conant
    James B. Conant was an American chemist, educator, and diplomat who served as president of Harvard University and played a major role in U.S. scientific and military policy during World War II.
  • B. William J. Hutchins
    William J. Hutchins was a prominent 19th-century Texas businessman and civic leader after whom the city of Hutchins, Texas, is named.
  • C. Charles W. Eliot
    Charles W. Eliot was a prominent American academic and long-serving president of Harvard University who played a major role in modernizing higher education in the United States.
  • D. William Maynard Hutchins
    William Maynard Hutchins is an American translator and scholar best known for translating major works of modern Arabic literature, including Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy.
  • E. Stilson Hutchins
    Stilson Hutchins was an American newspaper publisher best known as the founder of The Washington Post.
  • 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_69d81c6081b88190b53e317c3370c8fe completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de2e10f60c81908ee9636e85c070ff completed April 14, 2026, 12:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7ce903c5c8190b72d83a5b842ad70 completed May 3, 2026, 10:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f9fd5d4abc8190aa10d9f1c9f7f9c9 completed May 5, 2026, 2:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fb14bfa2c081908381bb74f040c6c8 completed May 6, 2026, 10:15 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:17 p.m.