Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Joseph Cotten E57801 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Cotten
Cotten is a surname most notably associated with American actor Joseph Cotten, a prominent figure in classic Hollywood cinema.
E277554 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: Cotten | Statement: [Joseph Cotten, familyName, Cotten]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cotten
Context triple: [Joseph Cotten, familyName, Cotten]
  • A. Cotton
    Cotton is a soft, natural fiber harvested from the seed pods of cotton plants and widely used in textiles and clothing.
  • B. Seaborn Cotton
    Seaborn Cotton was a 17th-century New England Puritan minister and the son of prominent theologian John Cotton.
  • C. Coton
    Coton is a small village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, located just west of the city of Cambridge.
  • D. Tweed
    Tweed is a state electoral district in New South Wales, Australia, encompassing the coastal region around Tweed Heads near the Queensland border.
  • E. Silken Floss
    Silken Floss is a stylish and enigmatic femme fatale and scientist who serves as one of the main villains in the 2008 superhero film "The Spirit."
  • 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: Cotten
Triple: [Joseph Cotten, familyName, Cotten]
Generated description
Cotten is a surname most notably associated with American actor Joseph Cotten, a prominent figure in classic Hollywood cinema.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cotten
Target entity description: Cotten is a surname most notably associated with American actor Joseph Cotten, a prominent figure in classic Hollywood cinema.
  • A. Cotton
    Cotton is a soft, natural fiber harvested from the seed pods of cotton plants and widely used in textiles and clothing.
  • B. Seaborn Cotton
    Seaborn Cotton was a 17th-century New England Puritan minister and the son of prominent theologian John Cotton.
  • C. Coton
    Coton is a small village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, located just west of the city of Cambridge.
  • D. Tweed
    Tweed is a state electoral district in New South Wales, Australia, encompassing the coastal region around Tweed Heads near the Queensland border.
  • E. Silken Floss
    Silken Floss is a stylish and enigmatic femme fatale and scientist who serves as one of the main villains in the 2008 superhero film "The Spirit."
  • 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_69ab4a5212d88190b989ce129f2ad87f completed March 6, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd2bd92f88190bf100c799f62210c completed March 7, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af5d046430819095605b8a8fd987d5 completed March 9, 2026, 11:51 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af5f4be20c8190a0da1a25c7b097b8 completed March 10, 2026, 12:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af5fe06e6881908e0b11f3101cb0f0 completed March 10, 2026, 12:03 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.