Triple

T16543921
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brinkley E401890 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Alan Brinkley
Alan Brinkley was a prominent American historian and Columbia University professor known for his influential works on 20th-century U.S. political and intellectual history.
E1219996 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: Alan Brinkley | Statement: [Brinkley, hasNotableBearer, Alan Brinkley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Brinkley
Context triple: [Brinkley, hasNotableBearer, Alan Brinkley]
  • A. Robert N. Wilentz
    Robert N. Wilentz was an American lawyer and jurist who served as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1979 to 1996.
  • B. David T. Wilentz
    David T. Wilentz was a prominent American lawyer and politician best known as the New Jersey Attorney General who prosecuted the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
  • C. Eric Foner
    Eric Foner is a prominent American historian best known for his influential scholarship on the Civil War, Reconstruction, and American freedom.
  • D. John A. Garraty
    John A. Garraty was an American historian and biographer known for his influential works on U.S. history and his role in shaping major reference works in the field.
  • E. Kenneth H. Jackson
    Kenneth H. Jackson was a prominent 20th-century British linguist and historian renowned for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Celtic languages.
  • 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: Alan Brinkley
Triple: [Brinkley, hasNotableBearer, Alan Brinkley]
Generated description
Alan Brinkley was a prominent American historian and Columbia University professor known for his influential works on 20th-century U.S. political and intellectual history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Brinkley
Target entity description: Alan Brinkley was a prominent American historian and Columbia University professor known for his influential works on 20th-century U.S. political and intellectual history.
  • A. Robert N. Wilentz
    Robert N. Wilentz was an American lawyer and jurist who served as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1979 to 1996.
  • B. David T. Wilentz
    David T. Wilentz was a prominent American lawyer and politician best known as the New Jersey Attorney General who prosecuted the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
  • C. Eric Foner
    Eric Foner is a prominent American historian best known for his influential scholarship on the Civil War, Reconstruction, and American freedom.
  • D. John A. Garraty
    John A. Garraty was an American historian and biographer known for his influential works on U.S. history and his role in shaping major reference works in the field.
  • E. Kenneth H. Jackson
    Kenneth H. Jackson was a prominent 20th-century British linguist and historian renowned for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Celtic languages.
  • 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_69d88384bc30819084229e7dcdc39a41 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3455fab34819086c77ff45b85f5db completed April 18, 2026, 8:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0067b3248c8190b63793bfc072aa4f completed May 10, 2026, 11:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0069d3b1c4819093c99516843cace6 completed May 10, 2026, 11:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a006a4febf0819090471a73e88fdaf2 completed May 10, 2026, 11:21 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:15 a.m.