Triple

T3065828
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tracks E62101 entity
Predicate supportingCharacter P7748 FINISHED
Object Rick Smolan
Rick Smolan is an American photographer and former Time, Life, and National Geographic photojournalist best known for creating the "Day in the Life" book series and for his work documenting large-scale human and technological stories.
 E324062 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: Rick Smolan | Statement: [Tracks, supportingCharacter, Rick Smolan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Rick Smolan
Context triple: [Tracks, supportingCharacter, Rick Smolan]
  • A. Rich Kleiman
    Rich Kleiman is an American sports agent and entrepreneur best known as Kevin Durant’s longtime business partner and co-founder of the sports and entertainment company Boardroom and the investment firm Thirty Five Ventures.
  • B. Don Smolenski
    Don Smolenski is an American sports executive best known for serving as the president of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles, overseeing the franchise’s business operations.
  • C. Vince Welnick
    Vince Welnick was an American keyboardist and singer best known for serving as the Grateful Dead’s final keyboard player from 1990 until the band’s dissolution in 1995.
  • D. Scott Budnick
    Scott Budnick is an American film producer best known for his work on hit comedies like "The Hangover" and for his later activism in criminal justice reform.
  • E. Marty Katz
    Marty Katz is a film producer known for his work on movies such as the World War II drama "The Great Raid."
  • 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: Rick Smolan
Triple: [Tracks, supportingCharacter, Rick Smolan]
Generated description
Rick Smolan is an American photographer and former Time, Life, and National Geographic photojournalist best known for creating the "Day in the Life" book series and for his work documenting large-scale human and technological stories.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Rick Smolan
Target entity description: Rick Smolan is an American photographer and former Time, Life, and National Geographic photojournalist best known for creating the "Day in the Life" book series and for his work documenting large-scale human and technological stories.
  • A. Rich Kleiman
    Rich Kleiman is an American sports agent and entrepreneur best known as Kevin Durant’s longtime business partner and co-founder of the sports and entertainment company Boardroom and the investment firm Thirty Five Ventures.
  • B. Don Smolenski
    Don Smolenski is an American sports executive best known for serving as the president of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles, overseeing the franchise’s business operations.
  • C. Vince Welnick
    Vince Welnick was an American keyboardist and singer best known for serving as the Grateful Dead’s final keyboard player from 1990 until the band’s dissolution in 1995.
  • D. Scott Budnick
    Scott Budnick is an American film producer best known for his work on hit comedies like "The Hangover" and for his later activism in criminal justice reform.
  • E. Marty Katz
    Marty Katz is a film producer known for his work on movies such as the World War II drama "The Great Raid."
  • 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_69ad85793e5c8190a358049bc4a98d8c completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada0fc01dc81908fbdf7c1ef73afe4 completed March 8, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b1f878e1148190934ff7ed5a52b6ad completed March 11, 2026, 11:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1f908ee3081909126bc3797658fca completed March 11, 2026, 11:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1f99f7aec8190bb35ef4ddf64735c completed March 11, 2026, 11:24 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:02 p.m.