Triple
T16343491
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Brian Douglas Williams |
E396869
|
entity |
| Predicate | birthName |
P65
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Brian Douglas Williams |
E396869
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Brian Douglas Williams | Statement: [Brian Douglas Williams, birthName, Brian Douglas Williams]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brian Douglas Williams Context triple: [Brian Douglas Williams, birthName, Brian Douglas Williams]
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A.
Brian Douglas Williams
chosen
Brian Douglas Williams is an American television journalist best known for anchoring NBC Nightly News and later hosting "The 11th Hour" on MSNBC.
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B.
Mike Williams
Mike Williams is a Swedish computer scientist best known as one of the creators of the Erlang programming language.
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C.
Mike Williams
Mike Williams is the real-life chief electronics technician whose experiences during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster were dramatized in the film "Deepwater Horizon."
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D.
Mike Williams
Mike Williams is a Dutch DJ and electronic music producer known for his melodic future house tracks and collaborations within the EDM scene.
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E.
Arland Dean Williams Jr.
Arland Dean Williams Jr. was an American passenger on Air Florida Flight 90 who became known for repeatedly passing rescue lines to others in the freezing Potomac River, sacrificing his own life to save fellow survivors.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d87f26864c819088365ca381a003c2 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e2da0c90e0819086f0a80a10cd79f3 |
completed | April 18, 2026, 1:10 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a002db00b4081909573afc66366a91c |
completed | May 10, 2026, 7:03 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:07 a.m.