Triple

T14015134
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Billy Batson E337184 entity
Predicate realName P9233 FINISHED
Object William Joseph Batson
William Joseph Batson is the civilian alter ego of the DC Comics superhero Shazam, a young boy who transforms into a powerful champion by uttering the magic word "Shazam."
E1096872 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: William Joseph Batson | Statement: [Billy Batson, realName, William Joseph Batson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Joseph Batson
Context triple: [Billy Batson, realName, William Joseph Batson]
  • A. William Dozier
    William Dozier was an American film and television producer best known for producing and narrating the 1960s "Batman" TV series.
  • B. William Bruce Bailey
    William Bruce Bailey is the birth name of Axl Rose, the American singer and frontman of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses.
  • C. Anthony Gregory Brown
    Anthony Gregory Brown is an American politician and attorney who has served as Maryland's Attorney General and previously as the state's lieutenant governor and a U.S. Representative.
  • D. William Baker
    William Baker was a historical figure after whom London's famous Baker Street was named, likely a local landowner or developer associated with the area's early history.
  • E. William Baker
    William Baker was a 19th-century British civil engineer noted for designing major railway structures, including prominent bridges for the expanding Victorian rail network.
  • 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: William Joseph Batson
Triple: [Billy Batson, realName, William Joseph Batson]
Generated description
William Joseph Batson is the civilian alter ego of the DC Comics superhero Shazam, a young boy who transforms into a powerful champion by uttering the magic word "Shazam."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Joseph Batson
Target entity description: William Joseph Batson is the civilian alter ego of the DC Comics superhero Shazam, a young boy who transforms into a powerful champion by uttering the magic word "Shazam."
  • A. William Dozier
    William Dozier was an American film and television producer best known for producing and narrating the 1960s "Batman" TV series.
  • B. William Bruce Bailey
    William Bruce Bailey is the birth name of Axl Rose, the American singer and frontman of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses.
  • C. Anthony Gregory Brown
    Anthony Gregory Brown is an American politician and attorney who has served as Maryland's Attorney General and previously as the state's lieutenant governor and a U.S. Representative.
  • D. William Baker
    William Baker was a historical figure after whom London's famous Baker Street was named, likely a local landowner or developer associated with the area's early history.
  • E. William Baker
    William Baker was a 19th-century British civil engineer noted for designing major railway structures, including prominent bridges for the expanding Victorian rail network.
  • 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_69d81c6543a48190bd5ba93d7419e797 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de2f396b648190927e5718c3bb6511 completed April 14, 2026, 12:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd54fa19c081908e6467ee7b79f02a completed May 8, 2026, 3:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd55fe4e1881909b4a973dc7deb22b completed May 8, 2026, 3:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd568784788190b6a97c29814b7459 completed May 8, 2026, 3:20 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:19 p.m.