Triple
T20927108
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Once to Every Man: A Memoir |
E515373
|
entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
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FINISHED |
| Object | William Sloane Coffin |
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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: William Sloane Coffin | Statement: [Once to Every Man: A Memoir, author, William Sloane Coffin]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Sloane Coffin Context triple: [Once to Every Man: A Memoir, author, William Sloane Coffin]
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A.
William Sloane Coffin
chosen
William Sloane Coffin was an influential American Christian clergyman and social activist best known for his leadership in the civil rights and anti–Vietnam War movements.
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B.
William Sloane Coffin Sr.
William Sloane Coffin Sr. was an American businessman and publisher, best known as the longtime president of the prominent New York publishing house W. W. Norton & Company.
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C.
Robert P. T. Coffin
Robert P. T. Coffin was an American poet, essayist, and professor who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1936.
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D.
Harvey Cox
Harvey Cox is an American Baptist theologian and Harvard Divinity School professor emeritus best known for his influential works on secularization, urban theology, and the role of religion in contemporary society, including the landmark book "The Secular City."
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E.
Timothy C. May
Timothy C. May was an American technical and political writer, former Intel engineer, and co-founder of the cypherpunk movement known for his influential essays on cryptography, digital privacy, and crypto-anarchism.
- 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_69e0b4fb431c8190b9d40e6a72f0cc87 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6f652c3188190ace50415b3b30b83 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 4 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:49 p.m.