Triple
T16481951
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Captain John Smith |
E400341
|
entity |
| Predicate | name |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
John Smith
John Smith was an English soldier, explorer, and leader of the Jamestown colony in Virginia, known for his role in the early establishment of English America.
|
E51677
|
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: John Smith | Statement: [Captain John Smith, name, John Smith]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Smith Context triple: [Captain John Smith, name, John Smith]
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A.
John
John "Home Run" Baker was a prominent early 20th-century American Major League Baseball third baseman known for his powerful hitting and clutch home runs.
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B.
John
John is the birth name of American actor Jack Lemmon, a celebrated star of classic films such as "Some Like It Hot" and "The Apartment."
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C.
John
John Alcock was a British aviator best known for making the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside Arthur Whitten Brown.
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D.
John
John is the given name of American politician and diplomat John Kerry, a former U.S. Secretary of State and Democratic presidential nominee.
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E.
John
John is the given name of John Adams, an American politician from Ohio.
- 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: John Smith Triple: [Captain John Smith, name, John Smith]
Generated description
John Smith was an English soldier, explorer, and leader of the Jamestown colony in Virginia, known for his role in the early establishment of English America.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Smith Target entity description: John Smith was an English soldier, explorer, and leader of the Jamestown colony in Virginia, known for his role in the early establishment of English America.
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A.
John Smith
chosen
John Smith was an English soldier, explorer, and leader who played a pivotal role in the establishment and survival of the Jamestown colony in early colonial Virginia.
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B.
John Smith
John Smith was a delegate from South Carolina who served in the Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary era.
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C.
John Smith
John Smith is an individual known primarily as the husband of Jane Smith.
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D.
John Smith
John Smith is a professional employer or business figure who has Joe Blake among his staff or associates.
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E.
John Smith
John Smith was a British politician who served as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition in the early 1990s until his sudden death in 1994.
- 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_69d883813098819084f5409539723b59 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e32e03643881908b16ddb9004af5d0 |
completed | April 18, 2026, 7:08 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a00581ebe888190a331974473f1be1a |
completed | May 10, 2026, 10:04 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a0059473c088190a8c9fc757c0a3ef1 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 10:09 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a005a457868819096e21df6944de0ff |
completed | May 10, 2026, 10:13 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:13 a.m.