Triple
T20752133
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Robert E. Howard |
E510748
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Robert Ervin Howard |
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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: Robert Ervin Howard | Statement: [Robert E. Howard, fullName, Robert Ervin Howard]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Ervin Howard Context triple: [Robert E. Howard, fullName, Robert Ervin Howard]
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A.
Robert E. Howard
chosen
Robert E. Howard was an American pulp fiction writer best known as the creator of the sword-and-sorcery character Conan the Barbarian.
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B.
Robert Howard
Robert Howard was a wealthy 17th-century Boston merchant for whom the historic Paul Revere House was originally constructed.
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C.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author best known for creating the iconic adventure characters Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.
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D.
Sir Robert Howard
Sir Robert Howard was a 15th-century English nobleman and soldier of the powerful Howard family, whose descendants rose to become Dukes of Norfolk.
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E.
August Derleth
August Derleth was an American writer, editor, and publisher best known for championing H. P. Lovecraft’s work and developing the shared universe of weird fiction that became known as the Cthulhu Mythos.
- 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_69e0b4c909ec8190b05987f1639513f6 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6c22be6588190b137193cb3184fc0 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 12:17 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:34 p.m.