Triple
T3998197
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Tom Brokaw |
E87148
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Thomas John Brokaw |
E87148
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Thomas John Brokaw | Statement: [Tom Brokaw, fullName, Thomas John Brokaw]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas John Brokaw Context triple: [Tom Brokaw, fullName, Thomas John Brokaw]
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A.
Tom Brokaw
chosen
Tom Brokaw is an American television journalist and author best known for serving as a longtime anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News.
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B.
David Brinkley
David Brinkley was a prominent American television newscaster and journalist best known for co-anchoring "The Huntley–Brinkley Report" and later serving as a leading figure in network evening news.
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C.
Dan Rather
Dan Rather is an American journalist and former CBS Evening News anchor known for his hard-hitting reporting and decades-long presence on national television news.
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D.
Bill Whitaker
Bill Whitaker is an American television journalist best known as a longtime correspondent for the CBS news magazine program "60 Minutes."
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E.
Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite was a legendary American broadcast journalist and longtime CBS Evening News anchor, widely regarded as "the most trusted man in America" during the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69aed94118148190975e6aa4e554cde9 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aefa3ef7ac8190abe02f440ff83c43 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 4:50 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b54c57f60c819080e237b4b056d73b |
completed | March 14, 2026, 11:54 a.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:34 p.m.