Triple
T18479029
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Man Who Loved Only Numbers |
E451509
|
entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Paul Hoffman |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Paul Hoffman | Statement: [The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, author, Paul Hoffman]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Hoffman Context triple: [The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, author, Paul Hoffman]
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A.
Paul Hoffman
chosen
Paul Hoffman is a common name shared by several notable individuals, including authors, journalists, and public figures across various fields.
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B.
David Hoffman
David Hoffman is a common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as law, politics, academia, and the arts.
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C.
Thomas Hoffman
Thomas Hoffman is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with several people across different professions, making it difficult to attribute a single widely recognized identity to him.
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D.
Paul G. Hoffman
Paul G. Hoffman was an American automobile executive and public administrator best known for leading post–World War II European recovery efforts and later serving in prominent roles at the United Nations.
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E.
Paul F. Hoffman
Paul F. Hoffman is a Canadian geologist renowned for developing and championing the Snowball Earth hypothesis, which proposes that Earth was once almost entirely covered in ice.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8d38465a0819099b9b42d2a662ac1 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e53065e8388190bb216dae89f8cf75 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 7:43 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:35 a.m.