Triple

T428173
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Ball Zoo E9655 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object John Ball
John Ball was a prominent 19th-century Grand Rapids businessman and landowner whose donated property became the site of the John Ball Zoo.
E55966 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: John Ball | Statement: [John Ball Zoo, namedAfter, John Ball]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Ball
Context triple: [John Ball Zoo, namedAfter, John Ball]
  • A. John Pym
    John Pym was a leading English parliamentarian and architect of opposition to King Charles I whose leadership in the Long Parliament helped set the stage for the English Civil War.
  • B. Henry Bacon
    Henry Bacon was an American architect best known for designing the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • C. Lloyd Bryce
    Lloyd Bryce was an American editor, politician, and diplomat best known for his influential leadership of the North American Review in the late 19th century.
  • D. John Mitchell
    John Mitchell was the U.S. Attorney General under President Richard Nixon and a central figure in the Watergate scandal.
  • E. Julius Lankershim
    Julius Lankershim was a prominent 19th-century Los Angeles landowner and developer whose holdings and influence helped shape early Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley.
  • 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: John Ball
Triple: [John Ball Zoo, namedAfter, John Ball]
Generated description
John Ball was a prominent 19th-century Grand Rapids businessman and landowner whose donated property became the site of the John Ball Zoo.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Ball
Target entity description: John Ball was a prominent 19th-century Grand Rapids businessman and landowner whose donated property became the site of the John Ball Zoo.
  • A. John Pym
    John Pym was a leading English parliamentarian and architect of opposition to King Charles I whose leadership in the Long Parliament helped set the stage for the English Civil War.
  • B. Henry Bacon
    Henry Bacon was an American architect best known for designing the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • C. Lloyd Bryce
    Lloyd Bryce was an American editor, politician, and diplomat best known for his influential leadership of the North American Review in the late 19th century.
  • D. John Mitchell
    John Mitchell was the U.S. Attorney General under President Richard Nixon and a central figure in the Watergate scandal.
  • E. Julius Lankershim
    Julius Lankershim was a prominent 19th-century Los Angeles landowner and developer whose holdings and influence helped shape early Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley.
  • 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_69a2e801e1d48190b505d1dd336b52ac completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2eeecb64c81908c5c83ef7c0181e6 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a442a01ebc8190bc4810df7c358932 completed March 1, 2026, 1:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4430b95048190bde4ff5118bda91f completed March 1, 2026, 1:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4433c43388190a634c2a630bde2e6 completed March 1, 2026, 1:46 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:11 p.m.