Triple

T3643554
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mort Sahl E77244 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Morton Lyon Sahl
Morton Lyon Sahl was a pioneering Canadian-American stand-up comedian and satirist known for his sharp, politically charged monologues that helped redefine modern comedy in the mid-20th century.
E377037 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: Morton Lyon Sahl | Statement: [Mort Sahl, fullName, Morton Lyon Sahl]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Morton Lyon Sahl
Context triple: [Mort Sahl, fullName, Morton Lyon Sahl]
  • A. Harold Olsen
    Harold Olsen was an American basketball coach best known for his successful collegiate career at Ohio State University and his influential role in the early development of the NCAA Tournament.
  • B. Louie L. Wainwright
    Louie L. Wainwright was the Director of the Florida Division of Corrections who became historically notable as the named state official in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright, which established the right to counsel for indigent defendants.
  • C. Leonard Franklin Slye
    Leonard Franklin Slye, better known as Roy Rogers, was a hugely popular American singing cowboy actor and musician who became a Western film and television icon in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Mahlon Sweet
    Mahlon Sweet was a prominent local aviation advocate and civic leader in Eugene, Oregon, whose efforts were instrumental in establishing the city’s municipal airport.
  • E. Harlan Anderson
    Harlan Anderson was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the pioneering minicomputer company Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
  • 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: Morton Lyon Sahl
Triple: [Mort Sahl, fullName, Morton Lyon Sahl]
Generated description
Morton Lyon Sahl was a pioneering Canadian-American stand-up comedian and satirist known for his sharp, politically charged monologues that helped redefine modern comedy in the mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Morton Lyon Sahl
Target entity description: Morton Lyon Sahl was a pioneering Canadian-American stand-up comedian and satirist known for his sharp, politically charged monologues that helped redefine modern comedy in the mid-20th century.
  • A. Harold Olsen
    Harold Olsen was an American basketball coach best known for his successful collegiate career at Ohio State University and his influential role in the early development of the NCAA Tournament.
  • B. Louie L. Wainwright
    Louie L. Wainwright was the Director of the Florida Division of Corrections who became historically notable as the named state official in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright, which established the right to counsel for indigent defendants.
  • C. Leonard Franklin Slye
    Leonard Franklin Slye, better known as Roy Rogers, was a hugely popular American singing cowboy actor and musician who became a Western film and television icon in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Mahlon Sweet
    Mahlon Sweet was a prominent local aviation advocate and civic leader in Eugene, Oregon, whose efforts were instrumental in establishing the city’s municipal airport.
  • E. Harlan Anderson
    Harlan Anderson was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the pioneering minicomputer company Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
  • 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_69ad85de1b988190a45f8dbfebc806fc completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc35acf2c81908f60168e93b773b1 completed March 8, 2026, 6:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b48836f5d08190bbf0b6410ed6f766 completed March 13, 2026, 9:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b48afc27d48190b8ae34f3b167ce79 completed March 13, 2026, 10:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4a3ee82b88190a7dd5fceff04728c completed March 13, 2026, 11:55 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:24 p.m.