Triple

T4422565
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Basil E95135 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Basil Zaharoff
Basil Zaharoff was a notorious early 20th-century international arms dealer and financier, often dubbed the "merchant of death" for his role in fueling conflicts through weapons sales.
E437302 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: Basil Zaharoff | Statement: [Basil, hasNotableBearer, Basil Zaharoff]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Basil Zaharoff
Context triple: [Basil, hasNotableBearer, Basil Zaharoff]
  • A. Hendrik Sartov
    Hendrik Sartov was a cinematographer best known for his work on silent-era films, including collaborations with major directors and stars of the 1920s.
  • B. Victor Argo
    Victor Argo was an American character actor known for his frequent collaborations with directors like Martin Scorsese and Abel Ferrara, often portraying tough, streetwise New Yorkers in crime and drama films.
  • C. Count Zaroff
    Count Zaroff is the sophisticated yet sadistic Russian aristocrat and big-game hunter who notoriously stalks human prey on his isolated island in the 1932 film "The Most Dangerous Game."
  • D. Joseph Trumpeldor
    Joseph Trumpeldor was a prominent early Zionist leader and war hero, celebrated for his pioneering role in Jewish self-defense and settlement in pre-state Israel.
  • E. Maximilian Voloshin
    Maximilian Voloshin was a Russian poet, critic, and artist of the Silver Age, closely associated with the Crimean town of Koktebel and known for his symbolist verse and cultural salon.
  • 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: Basil Zaharoff
Triple: [Basil, hasNotableBearer, Basil Zaharoff]
Generated description
Basil Zaharoff was a notorious early 20th-century international arms dealer and financier, often dubbed the "merchant of death" for his role in fueling conflicts through weapons sales.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Basil Zaharoff
Target entity description: Basil Zaharoff was a notorious early 20th-century international arms dealer and financier, often dubbed the "merchant of death" for his role in fueling conflicts through weapons sales.
  • A. Hendrik Sartov
    Hendrik Sartov was a cinematographer best known for his work on silent-era films, including collaborations with major directors and stars of the 1920s.
  • B. Victor Argo
    Victor Argo was an American character actor known for his frequent collaborations with directors like Martin Scorsese and Abel Ferrara, often portraying tough, streetwise New Yorkers in crime and drama films.
  • C. Count Zaroff
    Count Zaroff is the sophisticated yet sadistic Russian aristocrat and big-game hunter who notoriously stalks human prey on his isolated island in the 1932 film "The Most Dangerous Game."
  • D. Joseph Trumpeldor
    Joseph Trumpeldor was a prominent early Zionist leader and war hero, celebrated for his pioneering role in Jewish self-defense and settlement in pre-state Israel.
  • E. Maximilian Voloshin
    Maximilian Voloshin was a Russian poet, critic, and artist of the Silver Age, closely associated with the Crimean town of Koktebel and known for his symbolist verse and cultural salon.
  • 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_69b3453a36908190b95a79a297ca083c completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b3554a0e7c8190b704d00d07b1857d completed March 13, 2026, 12:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5f62bbee48190bae8fc7b9cc29086 completed March 14, 2026, 11:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5f6b132a88190950cde007375965a completed March 15, 2026, midnight
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5f7794d7081909eb494c2119eaee7 completed March 15, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:30 p.m.