Triple

T2426250
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Snub Pollard E53533 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object Harry Pollard
Harry "Snub" Pollard was an Australian-born silent film comedian and actor best known for his work in early Hollywood slapstick comedies.
E266117 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: Harry Pollard | Statement: [Snub Pollard, alsoKnownAs, Harry Pollard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry Pollard
Context triple: [Snub Pollard, alsoKnownAs, Harry Pollard]
  • A. Nat Hickey
    Nat Hickey was an early professional basketball player and coach best known for briefly appearing in an NBA game at age 45, making him the oldest player in league history.
  • B. Elwood Mead
    Elwood Mead was an American engineer and public official who served as U.S. Commissioner of Reclamation and oversaw major Western water projects, including the development associated with Hoover Dam.
  • C. Henry Lucas
    Henry Lucas was a 17th-century English clergyman, politician, and benefactor whose endowment led to the creation of the prestigious Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
  • D. Arthur Getz
    Arthur Getz was an American artist and illustrator best known for his numerous New Yorker magazine covers.
  • E. Arthur Barker
    Arthur Barker was a notorious American criminal and member of the Barker–Karpis gang during the 1930s.
  • 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: Harry Pollard
Triple: [Snub Pollard, alsoKnownAs, Harry Pollard]
Generated description
Harry "Snub" Pollard was an Australian-born silent film comedian and actor best known for his work in early Hollywood slapstick comedies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry Pollard
Target entity description: Harry "Snub" Pollard was an Australian-born silent film comedian and actor best known for his work in early Hollywood slapstick comedies.
  • A. Nat Hickey
    Nat Hickey was an early professional basketball player and coach best known for briefly appearing in an NBA game at age 45, making him the oldest player in league history.
  • B. Elwood Mead
    Elwood Mead was an American engineer and public official who served as U.S. Commissioner of Reclamation and oversaw major Western water projects, including the development associated with Hoover Dam.
  • C. Henry Lucas
    Henry Lucas was a 17th-century English clergyman, politician, and benefactor whose endowment led to the creation of the prestigious Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
  • D. Arthur Getz
    Arthur Getz was an American artist and illustrator best known for his numerous New Yorker magazine covers.
  • E. Arthur Barker
    Arthur Barker was a notorious American criminal and member of the Barker–Karpis gang during the 1930s.
  • 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_69ab495c44d48190b7235b23719bc3f6 completed March 6, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc99b95548190b77d36de9adfe3bb completed March 7, 2026, 6:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aebf637be4819096874a24e87f84ab completed March 9, 2026, 12:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aec7698e9881909c75137cb5cf2a0c completed March 9, 2026, 1:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aec87df0648190b8099b4eaa3d9b22 completed March 9, 2026, 1:17 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:42 p.m.