Triple

T14765873
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Family Fang E346992 entity
Predicate titleCharacterFamilyName P107260 FINISHED
Object Fang
Fang is the surname of the eccentric performance-artist family at the center of Kevin Wilson’s novel and its film adaptation "The Family Fang."
E1120950 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Fang | Statement: [The Family Fang, titleCharacterFamilyName, Fang]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fang
Context triple: [The Family Fang, titleCharacterFamilyName, Fang]
  • A. Fang
    Fang is a mysterious, dark-winged member of the avian-human hybrid "flock" and Max's closest ally and love interest in James Patterson's Maximum Ride series.
  • B. Fang
    Fang is the mascot of the Saint John Sea Dogs, a major junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League.
  • C. Fang
    Fang is a Bantu language widely spoken by the Fang people of Central Africa, particularly in Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Cameroon.
  • D. Fang
    Fang is Rubeus Hagrid’s large, cowardly boarhound (often called a dog) from the Harry Potter series.
  • E. Farong
    Farong was a Buddhist monk known as a disciple of the influential Fifth Patriarch of Chan Buddhism, Hongren.
  • 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: Fang
Triple: [The Family Fang, titleCharacterFamilyName, Fang]
Generated description
Fang is the surname of the eccentric performance-artist family at the center of Kevin Wilson’s novel and its film adaptation "The Family Fang."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fang
Target entity description: Fang is the surname of the eccentric performance-artist family at the center of Kevin Wilson’s novel and its film adaptation "The Family Fang."
  • A. Fang
    Fang is a Bantu language widely spoken by the Fang people of Central Africa, particularly in Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Cameroon.
  • B. Fang
    Fang is Rubeus Hagrid’s large, cowardly boarhound (often called a dog) from the Harry Potter series.
  • C. Fang
    Fang is a mysterious, dark-winged member of the avian-human hybrid "flock" and Max's closest ally and love interest in James Patterson's Maximum Ride series.
  • D. Fang
    Fang is the mascot of the Saint John Sea Dogs, a major junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League.
  • E. Farong
    Farong was a Buddhist monk known as a disciple of the influential Fifth Patriarch of Chan Buddhism, Hongren.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: titleCharacterFamilyName
Context triple: [The Family Fang, titleCharacterFamilyName, Fang]
  • A. protagonistFamilyName
    Indicates that the subject is the family name (surname) of the story’s protagonist.
  • B. familySurnameInStory chosen
    Indicates that a particular family surname appears within the narrative or context of a given story.
  • C. familyNameIn
    Indicates that an entity has a specified family name (surname) in a particular language or cultural context.
  • D. titleHeldByFamily
    Indicates that a particular title, rank, or honor is held collectively or traditionally by a specific family or family line.
  • E. clanChiefFamilyName
    Indicates that the object is the family name (surname) of the clan chief associated with the subject.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69d822e8896c819091169882f9b20486 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dec7f576c881909da70627f5897c94 completed April 14, 2026, 11:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe24b1ff0c81908d5dffbaf86c3ca3 completed May 8, 2026, 6 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe2689cae08190a116c5bef5341bb1 completed May 8, 2026, 6:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe27149f688190ba8a531bb458c3a9 completed May 8, 2026, 6:10 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69de8c02e5c08190943c27594026faf7 completed April 14, 2026, 6:48 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:30 a.m.