Triple
T16265390
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Howie Meeker |
E394861
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entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
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FINISHED |
| Object |
Howard William Meeker
Howard William Meeker was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, coach, broadcaster, and politician, best known for his Stanley Cup wins with the Toronto Maple Leafs and his influential TV hockey analysis and instruction.
|
E1244145
|
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: Howard William Meeker | Statement: [Howie Meeker, fullName, Howard William Meeker]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard William Meeker Context triple: [Howie Meeker, fullName, Howard William Meeker]
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A.
Ralph Meeker
Ralph Meeker was an American actor best known for his tough-guy roles in film noir and drama during the 1950s and 1960s.
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B.
F. B. Meek
F. B. Meek was a 19th-century American paleontologist known for his extensive work on fossil invertebrates and contributions to early geological surveys in the United States.
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C.
Charles Edwin Hatcher
Charles Edwin Hatcher, better known by his stage name Edwin Starr, was an American soul and R&B singer famed for his powerful 1970 anti-war hit "War."
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D.
Hugh J. Jewett
Hugh J. Jewett was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and railroad executive best known for serving as president of the Erie Railroad.
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E.
Leland J. Hamlin
Leland J. Hamlin is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the Hamlin surname, though detailed public information about his life or achievements appears to be limited.
- 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: Howard William Meeker Triple: [Howie Meeker, fullName, Howard William Meeker]
Generated description
Howard William Meeker was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, coach, broadcaster, and politician, best known for his Stanley Cup wins with the Toronto Maple Leafs and his influential TV hockey analysis and instruction.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard William Meeker Target entity description: Howard William Meeker was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, coach, broadcaster, and politician, best known for his Stanley Cup wins with the Toronto Maple Leafs and his influential TV hockey analysis and instruction.
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A.
Ralph Meeker
Ralph Meeker was an American actor best known for his tough-guy roles in film noir and drama during the 1950s and 1960s.
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B.
F. B. Meek
F. B. Meek was a 19th-century American paleontologist known for his extensive work on fossil invertebrates and contributions to early geological surveys in the United States.
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C.
Charles Edwin Hatcher
Charles Edwin Hatcher, better known by his stage name Edwin Starr, was an American soul and R&B singer famed for his powerful 1970 anti-war hit "War."
-
D.
Hugh J. Jewett
Hugh J. Jewett was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and railroad executive best known for serving as president of the Erie Railroad.
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E.
Leland J. Hamlin
Leland J. Hamlin is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the Hamlin surname, though detailed public information about his life or achievements appears to be limited.
- 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_69d87f221d8081909b0b2063e7528ba2 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e245c73944819085633e6d2a69bae9 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a00dbf46cf881909f6c16f7a3d9a535 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 7:26 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a0114d33cac819083d8e542ea5bc274 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 11:29 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a0115c583608190bf07ac205399f253 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 11:33 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:05 a.m.