Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brainerd E101943 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object John Gregory Smith Brainerd
John Gregory Smith Brainerd was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer best known for his leadership role in developing the ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
E454647 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 Gregory Smith Brainerd | Statement: [Brainerd, namedAfter, John Gregory Smith Brainerd]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Gregory Smith Brainerd
Context triple: [Brainerd, namedAfter, John Gregory Smith Brainerd]
  • A. G. Larry Smith
    G. Larry Smith is an editor known for his work on the publication "Cobra."
  • B. John Fred Young
    John Fred Young is an American rock drummer best known as a founding member of the band Black Stone Cherry.
  • C. Bruce Bernard Smith
    Bruce Bernard Smith is a Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive end best known for his dominant pass-rushing career with the Buffalo Bills in the NFL.
  • D. William S. Smith
    William S. Smith was an American military officer and public figure who served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and later held various diplomatic and political roles in the early United States.
  • E. Willard Martin
    Willard Martin was an American architect best known for creating Portland, Oregon’s iconic public space, Pioneer Courthouse Square.
  • 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 Gregory Smith Brainerd
Triple: [Brainerd, namedAfter, John Gregory Smith Brainerd]
Generated description
John Gregory Smith Brainerd was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer best known for his leadership role in developing the ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Gregory Smith Brainerd
Target entity description: John Gregory Smith Brainerd was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer best known for his leadership role in developing the ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
  • A. G. Larry Smith
    G. Larry Smith is an editor known for his work on the publication "Cobra."
  • B. John Fred Young
    John Fred Young is an American rock drummer best known as a founding member of the band Black Stone Cherry.
  • C. Bruce Bernard Smith
    Bruce Bernard Smith is a Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive end best known for his dominant pass-rushing career with the Buffalo Bills in the NFL.
  • D. William S. Smith
    William S. Smith was an American military officer and public figure who served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and later held various diplomatic and political roles in the early United States.
  • E. Willard Martin
    Willard Martin was an American architect best known for creating Portland, Oregon’s iconic public space, Pioneer Courthouse Square.
  • 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_69bd43d4ce208190b53158c882b222e3 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd59056bb48190ba1e0b5beda9bdc4 completed March 20, 2026, 2:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bde0a18c90819083953e78fc6de8db completed March 21, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bde2520f248190b746a322a3ec60bc completed March 21, 2026, 12:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bde2aaf654819093e1cb3a533fead1 completed March 21, 2026, 12:13 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:10 p.m.