Triple

T4253164
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Josephine Cohan E95906 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Jerry H. Cohan
Jerry H. Cohan was an American vaudeville performer and the patriarch of the Cohan theatrical family, best known as the father of entertainer George M. Cohan.
E423835 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: Jerry H. Cohan | Statement: [Josephine Cohan, father, Jerry H. Cohan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jerry H. Cohan
Context triple: [Josephine Cohan, father, Jerry H. Cohan]
  • A. Steve Cahn
    Steve Cahn is the son of renowned American songwriter and lyricist Sammy Cahn.
  • B. Jack Shulman
    Jack Shulman is the son of American actress Anne Hathaway and her husband, actor and businessman Adam Shulman.
  • C. Lowell Bergman
    Lowell Bergman is an American investigative journalist and producer best known for his work on CBS's "60 Minutes" and for exposing major corporate and political scandals.
  • D. Garson Kanin
    Garson Kanin was an American writer and director best known for his work on classic films and Broadway plays, including co-writing the screenplays for "Adam's Rib" and "Born Yesterday."
  • E. Louis Garfinkle
    Louis Garfinkle was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed Vietnam War drama film "The Deer Hunter."
  • 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: Jerry H. Cohan
Triple: [Josephine Cohan, father, Jerry H. Cohan]
Generated description
Jerry H. Cohan was an American vaudeville performer and the patriarch of the Cohan theatrical family, best known as the father of entertainer George M. Cohan.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jerry H. Cohan
Target entity description: Jerry H. Cohan was an American vaudeville performer and the patriarch of the Cohan theatrical family, best known as the father of entertainer George M. Cohan.
  • A. Steve Cahn
    Steve Cahn is the son of renowned American songwriter and lyricist Sammy Cahn.
  • B. Jack Shulman
    Jack Shulman is the son of American actress Anne Hathaway and her husband, actor and businessman Adam Shulman.
  • C. Lowell Bergman
    Lowell Bergman is an American investigative journalist and producer best known for his work on CBS's "60 Minutes" and for exposing major corporate and political scandals.
  • D. Garson Kanin
    Garson Kanin was an American writer and director best known for his work on classic films and Broadway plays, including co-writing the screenplays for "Adam's Rib" and "Born Yesterday."
  • E. Louis Garfinkle
    Louis Garfinkle was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed Vietnam War drama film "The Deer Hunter."
  • 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_69b3453f759881909b91f01a1e82c036 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b34ebc98e08190915ac309a51ef87f completed March 12, 2026, 11:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5a8845e6081908bbf1aef2a2da754 completed March 14, 2026, 6:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5a8f374fc8190830286dfadc9bdbb completed March 14, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5a99a4a9c8190a7e9bbc119d8d775 completed March 14, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:06 p.m.