Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Slate E408299 entity
Predicate previousEditorInChief P18307 FINISHED
Object David Plotz
David Plotz is an American journalist and author best known for his long tenure at the online magazine Slate and for co-hosting the political podcast "Slate Political Gabfest."
E1233853 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: David Plotz | Statement: [Slate, previousEditorInChief, David Plotz]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Plotz
Context triple: [Slate, previousEditorInChief, David Plotz]
  • A. Ron Powers
    Ron Powers is an American author and journalist known for his works of nonfiction, including co-authoring the World War II history book "Flags of Our Fathers."
  • B. Brennan Huff
    Brennan Huff is the immature, unemployed man-child portrayed by Will Ferrell in the comedy film "Step Brothers."
  • C. Alex Hutchinson
    Alex Hutchinson is a video game designer and creative director best known for leading major titles at Ubisoft, including work on the Assassin’s Creed series.
  • D. Scott Alexander
    Scott Alexander is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing biographical films such as "Ed Wood," "The People vs. Larry Flynt," and "Man on the Moon."
  • E. Scott Alexander
    Scott Alexander is the pen name of an American psychiatrist and influential blogger best known for his long-form essays on psychology, rationality, politics, and culture on the blogs Slate Star Codex and Astral Codex Ten.
  • 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: David Plotz
Triple: [Slate, previousEditorInChief, David Plotz]
Generated description
David Plotz is an American journalist and author best known for his long tenure at the online magazine Slate and for co-hosting the political podcast "Slate Political Gabfest."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Plotz
Target entity description: David Plotz is an American journalist and author best known for his long tenure at the online magazine Slate and for co-hosting the political podcast "Slate Political Gabfest."
  • A. Ron Powers
    Ron Powers is an American author and journalist known for his works of nonfiction, including co-authoring the World War II history book "Flags of Our Fathers."
  • B. Brennan Huff
    Brennan Huff is the immature, unemployed man-child portrayed by Will Ferrell in the comedy film "Step Brothers."
  • C. Alex Hutchinson
    Alex Hutchinson is a video game designer and creative director best known for leading major titles at Ubisoft, including work on the Assassin’s Creed series.
  • D. Scott Alexander
    Scott Alexander is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing biographical films such as "Ed Wood," "The People vs. Larry Flynt," and "Man on the Moon."
  • E. Scott Alexander
    Scott Alexander is the pen name of an American psychiatrist and influential blogger best known for his long-form essays on psychology, rationality, politics, and culture on the blogs Slate Star Codex and Astral Codex Ten.
  • 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_69d88393905081908d00a86b99996ac8 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3b2abc430819080c1303eded5f416 completed April 18, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00ab1299ac81908e9f1eebc3424bb9 completed May 10, 2026, 3:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00ac2ab65c819091d22cf52f16ef94 completed May 10, 2026, 4:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00ac9a854881909624d52db76fbb57 completed May 10, 2026, 4:04 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:22 a.m.