Triple

T13997414
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Howie Mandel E336735 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Howard
Howard is the given first name of Canadian comedian, television host, and actor Howie Mandel.
 E1073533 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: Howard | Statement: [Howie Mandel, givenName, Howard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Howard
Context triple: [Howie Mandel, givenName, Howard]
  • A. Howard
    Howard is the given name of the influential American film director, producer, and screenwriter Howard Hawks.
  • B. Howard
    Howard is a common English surname shared by numerous notable figures across entertainment, politics, and other fields.
  • C. Howard
    Howard is a small rural town in Queensland, Australia, known historically for coal mining and situated within the Fraser Coast Region.
  • D. Howard
    Howard is the middle name of Robert H. Grubbs, the Nobel Prize–winning American chemist renowned for his work on olefin metathesis.
  • E. Howard
    Howard is a character in Kenneth Lonergan's play "The Waverly Gallery," serving as a key figure in the story's exploration of family, memory, and aging.
  • 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: Howard
Triple: [Howie Mandel, givenName, Howard]
Generated description
Howard is the given first name of Canadian comedian, television host, and actor Howie Mandel.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Howard
Target entity description: Howard is the given first name of Canadian comedian, television host, and actor Howie Mandel.
  • A. Howard
    Howard is the given first name of Ward Cunningham, the American computer programmer best known for creating the first wiki.
  • B. Howard
    Howard is the middle name of Edwin H. Armstrong, the pioneering American electrical engineer and inventor of FM radio.
  • C. Howard
    Howard is the given first name of Duane Allman, the influential American guitarist and co-founder of the Allman Brothers Band.
  • D. Howard
    Howard is a common English surname shared by numerous notable figures across entertainment, politics, and other fields.
  • E. Howard
    Howard is the given name of the influential American film director, producer, and screenwriter Howard Hawks.
  • 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_69d81c645c5c8190b1fd16a285a1b78a completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de2eb68ba88190bfaf10777d607bf3 completed April 14, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fbac9604cc819088cde0ad8271ad48 completed May 6, 2026, 9:03 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fbad35be6c8190aa329fa947cbdcd9 completed May 6, 2026, 9:05 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fbae42ef2c8190b653d95de94042bc completed May 6, 2026, 9:10 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:19 p.m.