Triple

T16453676
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Matthews E399617 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object William Matthews
William Matthews is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
E1215030 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: William Matthews | Statement: [Matthews, hasNotableBearer, William Matthews]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Matthews
Context triple: [Matthews, hasNotableBearer, William Matthews]
  • A. James Tate
    James Tate was an American poet known for his surreal, witty, and often darkly humorous verse, which earned him major honors including the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award.
  • B. William Doty
    William Doty is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Doty.
  • C. Donald Windham
    Donald Windham was an American novelist and memoirist known for his close association with writers like Tennessee Williams and for whose legacy the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize was established.
  • D. Edward Dorn
    Edward Dorn was an American poet and writer associated with the Black Mountain poets, known for his incisive, often satirical explorations of the American West and its politics.
  • E. A. R. Ammons
    A. R. Ammons was an influential 20th-century American poet known for his meditative, nature-focused verse and innovative long-form poems.
  • 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: William Matthews
Triple: [Matthews, hasNotableBearer, William Matthews]
Generated description
William Matthews is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Matthews
Target entity description: William Matthews is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
  • A. James Tate
    James Tate was an American poet known for his surreal, witty, and often darkly humorous verse, which earned him major honors including the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award.
  • B. William Doty
    William Doty is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Doty.
  • C. Donald Windham
    Donald Windham was an American novelist and memoirist known for his close association with writers like Tennessee Williams and for whose legacy the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize was established.
  • D. Edward Dorn
    Edward Dorn was an American poet and writer associated with the Black Mountain poets, known for his incisive, often satirical explorations of the American West and its politics.
  • E. A. R. Ammons
    A. R. Ammons was an influential 20th-century American poet known for his meditative, nature-focused verse and innovative long-form poems.
  • 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_69d87f2c6778819080fcfae53be8f12a completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e32ce259d88190803930051409d72c completed April 18, 2026, 7:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a004f4e31a08190b121d0cfe2a406c2 completed May 10, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00513b6fcc8190a548b30cb7b4b67f completed May 10, 2026, 9:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0051def1d48190b40f55c40ab269d2 completed May 10, 2026, 9:37 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:10 a.m.