Triple

T3865792
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pat Hanrahan E91847 entity
Predicate notableStudent P4838 FINISHED
Object Jeff Heer
Jeff Heer is an American computer scientist and professor best known for his influential work in data visualization and for co-creating tools like D3.js and the Vega visualization grammar.
E395926 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: Jeff Heer | Statement: [Pat Hanrahan, notableStudent, Jeff Heer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jeff Heer
Context triple: [Pat Hanrahan, notableStudent, Jeff Heer]
  • A. Jeffrey Auerbach
    Jeffrey Auerbach is a film producer best known for his work on the stop-motion animated feature "Corpse Bride."
  • B. Christopher Lennertz
    Christopher Lennertz is an American composer best known for his film, television, and video game scores, including work on major comedies, action films, and popular series like Supernatural.
  • C. Gary K. Wolf
    Gary K. Wolf is an American author best known for creating the character Roger Rabbit and writing the novel that inspired the film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
  • D. Ben Templesmith
    Ben Templesmith is an Australian comic book artist and writer best known for his distinctive, atmospheric horror artwork on titles such as "30 Days of Night" and "Fell."
  • E. Barton Myers
    Barton Myers is a Canadian-American architect renowned for his innovative urban infill projects and prominent cultural and civic buildings across North America.
  • 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: Jeff Heer
Triple: [Pat Hanrahan, notableStudent, Jeff Heer]
Generated description
Jeff Heer is an American computer scientist and professor best known for his influential work in data visualization and for co-creating tools like D3.js and the Vega visualization grammar.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jeff Heer
Target entity description: Jeff Heer is an American computer scientist and professor best known for his influential work in data visualization and for co-creating tools like D3.js and the Vega visualization grammar.
  • A. Jeffrey Auerbach
    Jeffrey Auerbach is a film producer best known for his work on the stop-motion animated feature "Corpse Bride."
  • B. Christopher Lennertz
    Christopher Lennertz is an American composer best known for his film, television, and video game scores, including work on major comedies, action films, and popular series like Supernatural.
  • C. Gary K. Wolf
    Gary K. Wolf is an American author best known for creating the character Roger Rabbit and writing the novel that inspired the film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
  • D. Ben Templesmith
    Ben Templesmith is an Australian comic book artist and writer best known for his distinctive, atmospheric horror artwork on titles such as "30 Days of Night" and "Fell."
  • E. Barton Myers
    Barton Myers is a Canadian-American architect renowned for his innovative urban infill projects and prominent cultural and civic buildings across North America.
  • 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_69aed9645f348190a9868e7cef56ab7e completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeec3b8d988190b56d42ac1521e19c completed March 9, 2026, 3:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5123e5e008190a89bb226a7de55ec completed March 14, 2026, 7:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b512f3504c8190be940148a4f726e9 completed March 14, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5172b369c8190956d7c54943225cd completed March 14, 2026, 8:07 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:19 p.m.