Triple

T16265673
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kirk Penney E394869 entity
Predicate name P16 FINISHED
Object Kirk Samuel Penney
Kirk Samuel Penney is a retired New Zealand professional basketball player and sharpshooting guard who represented the Tall Blacks and played in leagues around the world, including the NBA and Europe.
E1203773 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: Kirk Samuel Penney | Statement: [Kirk Penney, name, Kirk Samuel Penney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kirk Samuel Penney
Context triple: [Kirk Penney, name, Kirk Samuel Penney]
  • A. Paul Penney
    Paul Penney was a son of American businessman and J.C. Penney founder James Cash Penney.
  • B. Edward Pennington
    Edward Pennington was a prominent landowner and early settler whose influence and holdings in the area led to the New Jersey community of Pennington being named in his honor.
  • C. Ray Pennington
    Ray Pennington was an American country music singer, songwriter, and record producer known for his work with artists like Waylon Jennings and for writing the hit song "I'm a Ramblin' Man."
  • D. Lewis Paine
    Lewis Paine (born Lewis Powell) was a Confederate sympathizer best known for his role in the 1865 conspiracy to assassinate U.S. government leaders alongside John Wilkes Booth.
  • E. Peter Kirk
    Peter Kirk is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably associated with the surname Kirk rather than with widely recognized public achievements.
  • 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: Kirk Samuel Penney
Triple: [Kirk Penney, name, Kirk Samuel Penney]
Generated description
Kirk Samuel Penney is a retired New Zealand professional basketball player and sharpshooting guard who represented the Tall Blacks and played in leagues around the world, including the NBA and Europe.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kirk Samuel Penney
Target entity description: Kirk Samuel Penney is a retired New Zealand professional basketball player and sharpshooting guard who represented the Tall Blacks and played in leagues around the world, including the NBA and Europe.
  • A. Paul Penney
    Paul Penney was a son of American businessman and J.C. Penney founder James Cash Penney.
  • B. Edward Pennington
    Edward Pennington was a prominent landowner and early settler whose influence and holdings in the area led to the New Jersey community of Pennington being named in his honor.
  • C. Ray Pennington
    Ray Pennington was an American country music singer, songwriter, and record producer known for his work with artists like Waylon Jennings and for writing the hit song "I'm a Ramblin' Man."
  • D. Lewis Paine
    Lewis Paine (born Lewis Powell) was a Confederate sympathizer best known for his role in the 1865 conspiracy to assassinate U.S. government leaders alongside John Wilkes Booth.
  • E. Peter Kirk
    Peter Kirk is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably associated with the surname Kirk rather than with widely recognized public achievements.
  • 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_6a0017b877088190893a1f012e5d2463 completed May 10, 2026, 5:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00183849bc8190a1896d240d8f91f0 completed May 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00190887088190a5a0eb2cfd674c98 completed May 10, 2026, 5:35 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:05 a.m.