Triple

T2128149
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shakespeare and Company (Paris bookshop) E46471 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object George Whitman
George Whitman was an American-born bookseller and literary figure best known for running and transforming Paris’s iconic Shakespeare and Company bookshop into a haven for writers and readers.
E237766 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: George Whitman | Statement: [Shakespeare and Company (Paris bookshop), foundedBy, George Whitman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Whitman
Context triple: [Shakespeare and Company (Paris bookshop), foundedBy, George Whitman]
  • A. W. F. Harvey
    W. F. Harvey was an English writer best known for his influential early 20th-century horror and supernatural short stories.
  • B. Henry Wolfe
    Henry Wolfe is an American musician and actor known for his work as a singer-songwriter and for being the son of acclaimed actress Meryl Streep.
  • C. Arthur Winslow
    Arthur Winslow is the principled Edwardian father in Terence Rattigan’s play "The Winslow Boy," who risks his family’s security to clear his son’s name.
  • D. Frederic McLaughlin
    Frederic McLaughlin was an American businessman and sports executive best known for establishing and owning the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks in the early 20th century.
  • E. Frederick H. Meyer
    Frederick H. Meyer was an American architect active in the early 20th century, known for designing prominent public and commercial buildings in San Francisco.
  • 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: George Whitman
Triple: [Shakespeare and Company (Paris bookshop), foundedBy, George Whitman]
Generated description
George Whitman was an American-born bookseller and literary figure best known for running and transforming Paris’s iconic Shakespeare and Company bookshop into a haven for writers and readers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Whitman
Target entity description: George Whitman was an American-born bookseller and literary figure best known for running and transforming Paris’s iconic Shakespeare and Company bookshop into a haven for writers and readers.
  • A. W. F. Harvey
    W. F. Harvey was an English writer best known for his influential early 20th-century horror and supernatural short stories.
  • B. Henry Wolfe
    Henry Wolfe is an American musician and actor known for his work as a singer-songwriter and for being the son of acclaimed actress Meryl Streep.
  • C. Arthur Winslow
    Arthur Winslow is the principled Edwardian father in Terence Rattigan’s play "The Winslow Boy," who risks his family’s security to clear his son’s name.
  • D. Frederic McLaughlin
    Frederic McLaughlin was an American businessman and sports executive best known for establishing and owning the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks in the early 20th century.
  • E. Frederick H. Meyer
    Frederick H. Meyer was an American architect active in the early 20th century, known for designing prominent public and commercial buildings in San Francisco.
  • 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_69a88a1626548190ae59a5028c3baa8e completed March 4, 2026, 7:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbb75033881909b16659fc73945ef completed March 7, 2026, 5:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae51a36398819081df18cc18bc3456 completed March 9, 2026, 4:50 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae528634608190bf10e3abf5a2c2d9 completed March 9, 2026, 4:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae536431bc8190b9f293d74046cb27 completed March 9, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:44 p.m.