Triple

T14611396
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McKnight E342967 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Reginald McKnight
Reginald McKnight is an American author and professor known for his short stories and novels that explore African American identity, culture, and contemporary life.
E1116582 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: Reginald McKnight | Statement: [McKnight, hasNotableBearer, Reginald McKnight]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reginald McKnight
Context triple: [McKnight, hasNotableBearer, Reginald McKnight]
  • A. Kenneth McKnight
    Kenneth McKnight is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the McKnight surname.
  • B. Cleavon Little
    Cleavon Little was an American actor and comedian best known for his starring role as Sheriff Bart in Mel Brooks' satirical Western film "Blazing Saddles."
  • C. Danny McKnight
    Danny McKnight is a U.S. Army Ranger officer known for his leadership during the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, later depicted in the film "Black Hawk Down."
  • D. Dulé Hill
    Dulé Hill is an American actor best known for his roles as presidential aide Charlie Young on "The West Wing" and pharmaceutical salesman-turned-fake psychic Burton "Gus" Guster on "Psych."
  • E. Darold Duane Knowles
    Darold Duane Knowles is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known for his role in the Oakland Athletics’ early-1970s championship teams.
  • 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: Reginald McKnight
Triple: [McKnight, hasNotableBearer, Reginald McKnight]
Generated description
Reginald McKnight is an American author and professor known for his short stories and novels that explore African American identity, culture, and contemporary life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reginald McKnight
Target entity description: Reginald McKnight is an American author and professor known for his short stories and novels that explore African American identity, culture, and contemporary life.
  • A. Kenneth McKnight
    Kenneth McKnight is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the McKnight surname.
  • B. Cleavon Little
    Cleavon Little was an American actor and comedian best known for his starring role as Sheriff Bart in Mel Brooks' satirical Western film "Blazing Saddles."
  • C. Danny McKnight
    Danny McKnight is a U.S. Army Ranger officer known for his leadership during the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, later depicted in the film "Black Hawk Down."
  • D. Dulé Hill
    Dulé Hill is an American actor best known for his roles as presidential aide Charlie Young on "The West Wing" and pharmaceutical salesman-turned-fake psychic Burton "Gus" Guster on "Psych."
  • E. Darold Duane Knowles
    Darold Duane Knowles is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known for his role in the Oakland Athletics’ early-1970s championship teams.
  • 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_69d822dec68081908c2553145c4051dc completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb450e6588190a94488d8e71888c8 completed April 14, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fdfb78c0308190908ba791fd8dc40e completed May 8, 2026, 3:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fdfe0cb9348190bbdadac6343b29c2 completed May 8, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fdfec4428c81909bf3dac434700a40 completed May 8, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:25 a.m.