Triple

T1588021
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Palmer Joss E34109 entity
Predicate hasNameFamilyName P18 FINISHED
Object Joss
Joss is a surname most notably associated with the fictional philosopher and religious scholar Palmer Joss from Carl Sagan’s novel and the film adaptation "Contact."
E180566 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: Joss | Statement: [Palmer Joss, hasNameFamilyName, Joss]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joss
Context triple: [Palmer Joss, hasNameFamilyName, Joss]
  • A. Jody
    Jody is a given name used for people of any gender, often as a diminutive of names like Joseph or Judith.
  • B. Jesse
    Jesse is a figure in the Hebrew Bible best known as the father of King David and the ancestor from whose line the Davidic monarchy and, in Christian tradition, Jesus are said to descend.
  • C. Jeffrey
    Jeffrey is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
  • D. Jussy
    Jussy is a rural municipality in western Switzerland known for its vineyards and countryside within the canton of Geneva.
  • E. Jesse Fell
    Jesse Fell was a 19th-century American lawyer, land developer, and political figure from Illinois who played a key role in the rise of Abraham Lincoln and the founding of several Midwestern communities.
  • 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: Joss
Triple: [Palmer Joss, hasNameFamilyName, Joss]
Generated description
Joss is a surname most notably associated with the fictional philosopher and religious scholar Palmer Joss from Carl Sagan’s novel and the film adaptation "Contact."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joss
Target entity description: Joss is a surname most notably associated with the fictional philosopher and religious scholar Palmer Joss from Carl Sagan’s novel and the film adaptation "Contact."
  • A. Jody
    Jody is a given name used for people of any gender, often as a diminutive of names like Joseph or Judith.
  • B. Jesse
    Jesse is a figure in the Hebrew Bible best known as the father of King David and the ancestor from whose line the Davidic monarchy and, in Christian tradition, Jesus are said to descend.
  • C. Jeffrey
    Jeffrey is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
  • D. Jussy
    Jussy is a rural municipality in western Switzerland known for its vineyards and countryside within the canton of Geneva.
  • E. Jesse Fell
    Jesse Fell was a 19th-century American lawyer, land developer, and political figure from Illinois who played a key role in the rise of Abraham Lincoln and the founding of several Midwestern communities.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: hasNameFamilyName
Context triple: [Palmer Joss, hasNameFamilyName, Joss]
  • A. familyName chosen
    Indicates that one entity is the family (last) name associated with another entity (typically a person).
  • B. hasFamilyNameInLanguage
    Indicates that an entity has a specific family name as expressed or written in a particular language.
  • C. familyNameCategory
    Indicates that an entity is associated with a particular classification or grouping based on its family name.
  • D. fullName
    Indicates that an entity has a complete personal name, typically combining given name(s) and family name into a single string.
  • E. namesakeFullName
    Indicates that one entity’s full name is used as the namesake or source of the name for another entity.
  • 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_69a885fceb2c8190b47e0f7c0aefbff0 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a93aedd45c819085843ac843d640e8 completed March 5, 2026, 8:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad469b36548190b2bdf2324fbea30f completed March 8, 2026, 9:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad47189b388190acd217b2ba37533b completed March 8, 2026, 9:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad47ffc5088190aeba84f6d92ff86f completed March 8, 2026, 9:57 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69a907bdc19081908c84c5c0aa09e282 completed March 5, 2026, 4:34 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:27 p.m.