Triple

T4704682
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Robert Smith Todd E104363 entity
Predicate fatherOf P120 FINISHED
Object David Todd
David Todd was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician from Kentucky, best known as a member of the prominent Todd family that included Mary Todd Lincoln.
E466137 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: David Todd | Statement: [Robert Smith Todd, fatherOf, David Todd]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Todd
Context triple: [Robert Smith Todd, fatherOf, David Todd]
  • A. Donald Todd
    Donald Todd is an American television writer and producer known for his work on series such as "This Is Us" and "Samantha Who?".
  • B. John Todd
    John Todd was a British mathematician known for his work in numerical analysis and for helping to establish the field of computational mathematics.
  • C. David Dodge
    David Dodge is a Canadian economist and public servant best known for serving as Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2001 to 2008.
  • D. David Dodge
    David Dodge was an American novelist best known for his mid-20th-century crime and adventure novels, including the book that inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s film "To Catch a Thief."
  • E. David Duffield
    David Duffield is an American billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for founding the enterprise software companies PeopleSoft and Workday.
  • 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: David Todd
Triple: [Robert Smith Todd, fatherOf, David Todd]
Generated description
David Todd was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician from Kentucky, best known as a member of the prominent Todd family that included Mary Todd Lincoln.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Todd
Target entity description: David Todd was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician from Kentucky, best known as a member of the prominent Todd family that included Mary Todd Lincoln.
  • A. Donald Todd
    Donald Todd is an American television writer and producer known for his work on series such as "This Is Us" and "Samantha Who?".
  • B. John Todd
    John Todd was a British mathematician known for his work in numerical analysis and for helping to establish the field of computational mathematics.
  • C. David Dodge
    David Dodge is a Canadian economist and public servant best known for serving as Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2001 to 2008.
  • D. David Dodge
    David Dodge was an American novelist best known for his mid-20th-century crime and adventure novels, including the book that inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s film "To Catch a Thief."
  • E. David Duffield
    David Duffield is an American billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for founding the enterprise software companies PeopleSoft and Workday.
  • 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_69bd43e9b88481908582103dcadff3d9 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd63d1e9c48190bad5f7d68bf0f622 completed March 20, 2026, 3:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be39dd7d9c8190912044c8616cf8a0 completed March 21, 2026, 6:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be3af59ef88190a5acc493978d412e completed March 21, 2026, 6:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be3c8533fc8190b512d3fec34e7e28 completed March 21, 2026, 6:36 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:17 p.m.