Triple

T3292099
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Adams (miniseries) E69124 entity
Predicate basedOnWorkBy P2806 FINISHED
Object David McCullough
David McCullough was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American historian and author renowned for his richly detailed biographies of U.S. presidents and major works of narrative history.
E345125 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: David McCullough | Statement: [John Adams (miniseries), basedOnWorkBy, David McCullough]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David McCullough
Context triple: [John Adams (miniseries), basedOnWorkBy, David McCullough]
  • A. Kai Bird
    Kai Bird is an American historian, biographer, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for co-writing the J. Robert Oppenheimer biography "American Prometheus."
  • B. Doris Kearns Goodwin
    Doris Kearns Goodwin is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American historian and author renowned for her influential biographies of U.S. presidents such as Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson.
  • C. Tracy Kidder
    Tracy Kidder is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his narrative nonfiction works such as "The Soul of a New Machine" and "Mountains Beyond Mountains."
  • D. Robert A. Caro
    Robert A. Caro is an American journalist and biographer renowned for his exhaustive, Pulitzer Prize–winning studies of political power, particularly in his multi-volume works on Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson.
  • E. Ron Chernow
    Ron Chernow is an American biographer and historian renowned for his meticulously researched works on figures such as Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and Ulysses S. Grant.
  • 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: David McCullough
Triple: [John Adams (miniseries), basedOnWorkBy, David McCullough]
Generated description
David McCullough was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American historian and author renowned for his richly detailed biographies of U.S. presidents and major works of narrative history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David McCullough
Target entity description: David McCullough was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American historian and author renowned for his richly detailed biographies of U.S. presidents and major works of narrative history.
  • A. Kai Bird
    Kai Bird is an American historian, biographer, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for co-writing the J. Robert Oppenheimer biography "American Prometheus."
  • B. Doris Kearns Goodwin
    Doris Kearns Goodwin is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American historian and author renowned for her influential biographies of U.S. presidents such as Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson.
  • C. Tracy Kidder
    Tracy Kidder is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his narrative nonfiction works such as "The Soul of a New Machine" and "Mountains Beyond Mountains."
  • D. Robert A. Caro
    Robert A. Caro is an American journalist and biographer renowned for his exhaustive, Pulitzer Prize–winning studies of political power, particularly in his multi-volume works on Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson.
  • E. Ron Chernow
    Ron Chernow is an American biographer and historian renowned for his meticulously researched works on figures such as Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and Ulysses S. Grant.
  • 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_69ad859d45748190b0742408c954b39f completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb07379dc8190b7bb409bcf42bdd6 completed March 8, 2026, 5:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b2e8654e8481908f4a8efa219edc54 completed March 12, 2026, 4:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b2ec67e79c8190b29970f856c7e5cf completed March 12, 2026, 4:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b2ed1b17a88190ac06092ad012bd9b completed March 12, 2026, 4:43 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:10 p.m.