Triple

T16171808
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ezell Blair Jr. E392456 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Blair
Blair is the surname of Ezell Blair Jr., a civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who helped launch the sit-in movement against racial segregation in the United States.
E392457 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: Blair | Statement: [Ezell Blair Jr., familyName, Blair]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blair
Context triple: [Ezell Blair Jr., familyName, Blair]
  • A. Blair
    Blair is the party who served as the respondent in the U.S. Supreme Court case Ray v. Blair, which addressed the authority of political parties to require loyalty pledges from presidential electors.
  • B. Blair
    Blair is an Australian federal electoral division in Queensland represented in the House of Representatives.
  • C. Blair
    Blair is the individual taxpayer involved as the petitioner in the U.S. Supreme Court case Blair v. Commissioner, which addressed issues of federal income taxation.
  • D. Blair
    Blair is the central protagonist of the "Black Bear" story, around whom the main events and character dynamics revolve.
  • E. Blair
    Blair is a central character in Bret Easton Ellis's novel "Less Than Zero," known as the beautiful, emotionally detached girlfriend of the protagonist amid Los Angeles's hedonistic, disaffected youth culture.
  • 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: Blair
Triple: [Ezell Blair Jr., familyName, Blair]
Generated description
Blair is the surname of Ezell Blair Jr., a civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who helped launch the sit-in movement against racial segregation in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blair
Target entity description: Blair is the surname of Ezell Blair Jr., a civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who helped launch the sit-in movement against racial segregation in the United States.
  • A. Blair chosen
    Blair is the surname of Ezell Blair Jr., a civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who initiated the 1960 Woolworth's lunch counter sit-ins.
  • B. Blair
    Blair is the individual taxpayer involved as the petitioner in the U.S. Supreme Court case Blair v. Commissioner, which addressed issues of federal income taxation.
  • C. Blair
    Blair is a central character in Bret Easton Ellis's novel "Less Than Zero," known as the beautiful, emotionally detached girlfriend of the protagonist amid Los Angeles's hedonistic, disaffected youth culture.
  • D. Blair
    Blair is the party who served as the respondent in the U.S. Supreme Court case Ray v. Blair, which addressed the authority of political parties to require loyalty pledges from presidential electors.
  • E. Blair
    Blair is the central protagonist of the "Black Bear" story, around whom the main events and character dynamics revolve.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d87f1d32208190942e4e499a80c18c completed April 10, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e21eb7ab1481908fc35bfc8c56e5f2 completed April 17, 2026, 11:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fff7bd87f08190a9f2a1524e5db2ba completed May 10, 2026, 3:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fff82b34408190ac40018f940ae370 completed May 10, 2026, 3:14 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fff8905ce48190b99f8cc3504efba2 completed May 10, 2026, 3:16 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:02 a.m.