Triple

T15920665
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shankar E386083 entity
Predicate notableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object R. K. Shankar
R. K. Shankar is an individual known primarily for sharing the name with the prominent figure Shankar, suggesting some public or professional notability associated with that name.
E1185534 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: R. K. Shankar | Statement: [Shankar, notableBearer, R. K. Shankar]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: R. K. Shankar
Context triple: [Shankar, notableBearer, R. K. Shankar]
  • A. S. Shankar
    S. Shankar is a prominent Indian film director known for his big-budget, visually spectacular Tamil-language movies that often blend science fiction, social themes, and mass entertainment.
  • B. K. Shankar
    K. Shankar is an Indian politician known for his leadership role in the Revolutionary Socialist Party, a left-wing political organization.
  • C. Shankar Sastry
    Shankar Sastry is a prominent control theorist and engineer known for his influential contributions to control systems, robotics, and cyber-physical systems, as well as his leadership roles in academia.
  • D. P. S. Prakash
    P. S. Prakash is an Indian cinematographer best known for his work on popular South Indian films, including the Rajinikanth-starrer "Baashha."
  • E. N. S. Raghavan
    N. S. Raghavan is an Indian entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of the global IT services company Infosys.
  • 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: R. K. Shankar
Triple: [Shankar, notableBearer, R. K. Shankar]
Generated description
R. K. Shankar is an individual known primarily for sharing the name with the prominent figure Shankar, suggesting some public or professional notability associated with that name.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: R. K. Shankar
Target entity description: R. K. Shankar is an individual known primarily for sharing the name with the prominent figure Shankar, suggesting some public or professional notability associated with that name.
  • A. S. Shankar
    S. Shankar is a prominent Indian film director known for his big-budget, visually spectacular Tamil-language movies that often blend science fiction, social themes, and mass entertainment.
  • B. K. Shankar
    K. Shankar is an Indian politician known for his leadership role in the Revolutionary Socialist Party, a left-wing political organization.
  • C. Shankar Sastry
    Shankar Sastry is a prominent control theorist and engineer known for his influential contributions to control systems, robotics, and cyber-physical systems, as well as his leadership roles in academia.
  • D. P. S. Prakash
    P. S. Prakash is an Indian cinematographer best known for his work on popular South Indian films, including the Rajinikanth-starrer "Baashha."
  • E. N. S. Raghavan
    N. S. Raghavan is an Indian entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of the global IT services company Infosys.
  • 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_69d86da686e4819097cbf3b1fc2d881d completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e156818cbc819086c956475ad23825 completed April 16, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffbe7055a48190b0f426f3e3c22f9d completed May 9, 2026, 11:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffbf278a408190b50ba4b311fa8dd2 completed May 9, 2026, 11:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffbf8312dc8190ab06736040459ab1 completed May 9, 2026, 11:13 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:52 a.m.