Triple
T17008947
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Howard Marks |
E412646
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entity |
| Predicate | birthName |
P65
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FINISHED |
| Object |
Dennis Howard Marks
Dennis Howard Marks was a Welsh drug smuggler turned author and counterculture icon, best known for his large-scale cannabis trafficking in the 1970s and 1980s and his later memoir "Mr Nice."
|
E1248913
|
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: Dennis Howard Marks | Statement: [Howard Marks, birthName, Dennis Howard Marks]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dennis Howard Marks Context triple: [Howard Marks, birthName, Dennis Howard Marks]
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A.
Dennis Marks
Dennis Marks is a name shared by several notable individuals, including an American television producer and writer and a British opera director and translator.
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B.
John Marks
John Marks is an American author and journalist known for his investigative and political writing, including collaborations with fellow reporter Joseph Medill Patterson Albright.
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C.
Vic Marks
Vic Marks is a former English cricketer and cricket journalist best known for playing for Somerset and England as an off-spin bowler before becoming a prominent writer and broadcaster on the sport.
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D.
Larry Marks
Larry Marks is a music producer best known for his work on Phil Ochs’ influential 1967 album "Pleasures of the Harbor."
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E.
Dave Marks
Dave Marks is a character on "The Jim Gaffigan Show," serving as one of Jim's close friends and a source of comic relief in his everyday misadventures.
- 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: Dennis Howard Marks Triple: [Howard Marks, birthName, Dennis Howard Marks]
Generated description
Dennis Howard Marks was a Welsh drug smuggler turned author and counterculture icon, best known for his large-scale cannabis trafficking in the 1970s and 1980s and his later memoir "Mr Nice."
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dennis Howard Marks Target entity description: Dennis Howard Marks was a Welsh drug smuggler turned author and counterculture icon, best known for his large-scale cannabis trafficking in the 1970s and 1980s and his later memoir "Mr Nice."
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A.
Dennis Marks
Dennis Marks is a name shared by several notable individuals, including an American television producer and writer and a British opera director and translator.
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B.
John Marks
John Marks is an American author and journalist known for his investigative and political writing, including collaborations with fellow reporter Joseph Medill Patterson Albright.
-
C.
Vic Marks
Vic Marks is a former English cricketer and cricket journalist best known for playing for Somerset and England as an off-spin bowler before becoming a prominent writer and broadcaster on the sport.
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D.
Larry Marks
Larry Marks is a music producer best known for his work on Phil Ochs’ influential 1967 album "Pleasures of the Harbor."
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E.
Dave Marks
Dave Marks is a character on "The Jim Gaffigan Show," serving as one of Jim's close friends and a source of comic relief in his everyday misadventures.
- 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_69d886cc4170819093deddc7b8b4b6a7 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e3d3853f548190910240a2145cc890 |
completed | April 18, 2026, 6:55 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a012ed0b78481909a11c1529db6c1cd |
completed | May 11, 2026, 1:20 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a012f9339d88190a8976240f5b2a8d8 |
completed | May 11, 2026, 1:23 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a01301a4fbc8190bbd5b5b9bad814d3 |
completed | May 11, 2026, 1:25 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:33 a.m.