Triple

T1657681
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Randolph Hearst E35836 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object William Randolph Hearst Jr.
William Randolph Hearst Jr. was an American newspaper editor and publisher who led the Hearst media empire and won a Pulitzer Prize for his journalism.
E192405 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 Randolph Hearst Jr. | Statement: [William Randolph Hearst, child, William Randolph Hearst Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Randolph Hearst Jr.
Context triple: [William Randolph Hearst, child, William Randolph Hearst Jr.]
  • A. George Hearst
    George Hearst was a 19th-century American mining magnate, rancher, and politician who amassed a fortune in the mining industry and later served as a U.S. Senator from California.
  • B. William Randolph Hearst
    William Randolph Hearst was a powerful American newspaper publisher and media magnate whose sensationalist journalism helped shape modern mass media and public opinion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. George Randolph Hearst
    George Randolph Hearst was an American businessman and heir who held executive roles in the Hearst media empire founded by his father, William Randolph Hearst.
  • D. Robert R. McCormick
    Robert R. McCormick was a prominent American newspaper publisher and longtime editor and owner of the Chicago Tribune, known for his influential role in 20th-century journalism and conservative politics.
  • E. David Whitmire Hearst
    David Whitmire Hearst was a member of the prominent Hearst family and one of the sons of American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.
  • 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 Randolph Hearst Jr.
Triple: [William Randolph Hearst, child, William Randolph Hearst Jr.]
Generated description
William Randolph Hearst Jr. was an American newspaper editor and publisher who led the Hearst media empire and won a Pulitzer Prize for his journalism.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Randolph Hearst Jr.
Target entity description: William Randolph Hearst Jr. was an American newspaper editor and publisher who led the Hearst media empire and won a Pulitzer Prize for his journalism.
  • A. George Hearst
    George Hearst was a 19th-century American mining magnate, rancher, and politician who amassed a fortune in the mining industry and later served as a U.S. Senator from California.
  • B. William Randolph Hearst
    William Randolph Hearst was a powerful American newspaper publisher and media magnate whose sensationalist journalism helped shape modern mass media and public opinion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. George Randolph Hearst
    George Randolph Hearst was an American businessman and heir who held executive roles in the Hearst media empire founded by his father, William Randolph Hearst.
  • D. Robert R. McCormick
    Robert R. McCormick was a prominent American newspaper publisher and longtime editor and owner of the Chicago Tribune, known for his influential role in 20th-century journalism and conservative politics.
  • E. David Whitmire Hearst
    David Whitmire Hearst was a member of the prominent Hearst family and one of the sons of American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.
  • 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_69a88606aa808190aa0b421b4271f220 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a90a8d85f08190a50ade3f443b7703 completed March 5, 2026, 4:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad8abe91bc8190ba363e1f7fd07b9f completed March 8, 2026, 2:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad9575acf88190aa3fe80794534dd4 completed March 8, 2026, 3:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad97a7128c819097ff36216f00d4f9 completed March 8, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.