Triple

T3843899
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ezell Blair Jr. E93520 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Blair
Blair is the surname of Ezell Blair Jr., a civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who initiated the 1960 Woolworth's lunch counter sit-ins.
E392457 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: Blair | Statement: [Ezell Blair Jr., familyName, Blair]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blair
Context triple: [Ezell Blair Jr., familyName, Blair]
  • A. John
    John was a medieval English monarch who ruled as King John of England from 1199 to 1216 and is best known for sealing the Magna Carta.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John Hancock, a prominent American statesman and patriot best known for his large signature on the United States Declaration of Independence.
  • C. John
    John is the husband of Martha Rainsborough.
  • D. John
    John Seigenthaler was an American journalist, editor, and civil rights advocate best known for his long tenure at The Tennessean and his work promoting First Amendment rights.
  • E. John
    John IV of Portugal was a 17th-century Portuguese king who restored the country's independence from Spain and founded the Braganza dynasty.
  • 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: Blair
Triple: [Ezell Blair Jr., familyName, Blair]
Generated description
Blair is the surname of Ezell Blair Jr., a civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who initiated the 1960 Woolworth's lunch counter sit-ins.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blair
Target entity description: Blair is the surname of Ezell Blair Jr., a civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who initiated the 1960 Woolworth's lunch counter sit-ins.
  • A. Blair
    Blair is a central character in Bret Easton Ellis's novel "Less Than Zero," known as the beautiful, emotionally detached girlfriend of the protagonist amid Los Angeles's hedonistic, disaffected youth culture.
  • B. John
    John was a medieval English monarch who ruled as King John of England from 1199 to 1216 and is best known for sealing the Magna Carta.
  • C. John
    John "Stuffy" McInnis was an American Major League Baseball first baseman best known as a member of Connie Mack’s Philadelphia Athletics dynasty in the early 20th century.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of John Frank Stevens, the American civil engineer best known for his pivotal role in the construction of the Panama Canal.
  • E. John
    John Parke Custis was the son of Martha Washington and stepson of George Washington, known as a Virginia planter and member of the colonial gentry.
  • 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_69aed96ce578819084ab16e3439976c9 completed March 9, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeebb4fd308190a636ba9dbbe57ed6 completed March 9, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5040f93948190b104cf1b7db671b7 completed March 14, 2026, 6:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b504c46dcc8190a9775c39e5c734a9 completed March 14, 2026, 6:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b505742830819093a861bde17c03c0 completed March 14, 2026, 6:51 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:18 p.m.