Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject reported by journalist George Steer E85557 entity
Predicate hasParticipant P149 FINISHED
Object George Steer
George Steer was a British journalist best known for his eyewitness reporting on the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, which brought global attention to the atrocity.
E389704 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: George Steer | Statement: [reported by journalist George Steer, hasParticipant, George Steer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Steer
Context triple: [reported by journalist George Steer, hasParticipant, George Steer]
  • A. Edward Whitchurch
    Edward Whitchurch was a 16th-century English printer and Protestant reformer best known for co-publishing early English translations of the Bible, including the Matthew Bible.
  • B. Francis Cockburn
    Francis Cockburn was a British colonial official after whom Cockburn Town in the Turks and Caicos Islands was named.
  • C. Augustine Birrell
    Augustine Birrell was a British Liberal politician, barrister, and author best known for his role in Irish affairs during the early 20th century, particularly around the time of the Easter Rising.
  • D. Ninian Edwards
    Ninian Edwards was an early American politician who served as the territorial governor of Illinois and later as a U.S. Senator and the third governor of the state.
  • E. Frederic Harrison
    Frederic Harrison was a 19th-century English historian, jurist, and leading positivist thinker known for his writings on sociology, ethics, and political reform.
  • 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: George Steer
Triple: [reported by journalist George Steer, hasParticipant, George Steer]
Generated description
George Steer was a British journalist best known for his eyewitness reporting on the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, which brought global attention to the atrocity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Steer
Target entity description: George Steer was a British journalist best known for his eyewitness reporting on the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, which brought global attention to the atrocity.
  • A. Edward Whitchurch
    Edward Whitchurch was a 16th-century English printer and Protestant reformer best known for co-publishing early English translations of the Bible, including the Matthew Bible.
  • B. Francis Cockburn
    Francis Cockburn was a British colonial official after whom Cockburn Town in the Turks and Caicos Islands was named.
  • C. Augustine Birrell
    Augustine Birrell was a British Liberal politician, barrister, and author best known for his role in Irish affairs during the early 20th century, particularly around the time of the Easter Rising.
  • D. Ninian Edwards
    Ninian Edwards was an early American politician who served as the territorial governor of Illinois and later as a U.S. Senator and the third governor of the state.
  • E. Frederic Harrison
    Frederic Harrison was a 19th-century English historian, jurist, and leading positivist thinker known for his writings on sociology, ethics, and political reform.
  • 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_69aed937fa8881908208ef3801060826 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aee42e430081908d032dcdcef20fc5 completed March 9, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4fb1c90648190a76cee07508a83b9 completed March 14, 2026, 6:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4fbacc8dc8190bb7e4a14e2d2f504 completed March 14, 2026, 6:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4fc1f679881908e63b22d910c532b completed March 14, 2026, 6:11 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:13 p.m.