Triple

T16799541
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Howard Hamlin E408318 entity
Predicate hasFirstName P17 FINISHED
Object Howard
Howard is a masculine given name of Old English origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
E277141 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: Howard | Statement: [Howard Hamlin, hasFirstName, Howard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard
Context triple: [Howard Hamlin, hasFirstName, Howard]
  • A. Howard
    Howard is a common English surname shared by numerous notable figures across entertainment, politics, and other fields.
  • B. Howard
    Howard is one of Sethe’s sons in Toni Morrison’s novel "Beloved," a child whose life is shaped by the trauma and legacy of slavery.
  • C. Howard
    Howard is a small rural town in Queensland, Australia, known historically for coal mining and situated within the Fraser Coast Region.
  • D. Howard
    Howard is the middle name of Robert H. Grubbs, the Nobel Prize–winning American chemist renowned for his work on olefin metathesis.
  • E. Howard
    Howard is a character in Kenneth Lonergan's play "The Waverly Gallery," serving as a key figure in the story's exploration of family, memory, and aging.
  • 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: Howard
Triple: [Howard Hamlin, hasFirstName, Howard]
Generated description
Howard is a masculine given name of Old English origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard
Target entity description: Howard is a masculine given name of Old English origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
  • A. Howard chosen
    Howard is a masculine given name of Old English origin meaning "high guardian" or "noble watchman," borne by numerous notable figures across politics, arts, and academia.
  • B. Howard
    Howard is a common English surname shared by numerous notable figures across entertainment, politics, and other fields.
  • C. Howard
    Howard is the given name of the influential American film director, producer, and screenwriter Howard Hawks.
  • D. Howard
    Howard is the given first name of Canadian comedian, television host, and actor Howie Mandel.
  • E. Howard
    Howard is the middle name of the English astronomer and mathematician G. H. Darwin, son of naturalist Charles Darwin.
  • 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_69d88393905081908d00a86b99996ac8 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3b2acd3548190a5f6ce7d1cf74117 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.