Triple

T4891990
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ball State University E109584 entity
Predicate president P8 FINISHED
Object Jeffrey S. Mearns
Jeffrey S. Mearns is an American academic leader and attorney who serves as the president of Ball State University in Indiana.
 E499220 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: Jeffrey S. Mearns | Statement: [Ball State University, president, Jeffrey S. Mearns]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jeffrey S. Mearns
Context triple: [Ball State University, president, Jeffrey S. Mearns]
  • A. Jeffrey Stott
    Jeffrey Stott is a film producer best known for his work on the political comedy film "The American President."
  • B. Andrew D. Martin
    Andrew D. Martin is an American political scientist and academic administrator who serves as the chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis.
  • C. Peter A. Tyrrell
    Peter A. Tyrrell was an American sports executive and promoter best known for his role in establishing and developing the early professional basketball franchise that became the Philadelphia Warriors.
  • D. Michael T. Williamson
    Michael T. Williamson is an American actor best known for his role as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue in the film Forrest Gump.
  • E. Barrie M. Osborne
    Barrie M. Osborne is an American film producer best known for his work on large-scale, critically acclaimed epics such as The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
  • 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: Jeffrey S. Mearns
Triple: [Ball State University, president, Jeffrey S. Mearns]
Generated description
Jeffrey S. Mearns is an American academic leader and attorney who serves as the president of Ball State University in Indiana.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jeffrey S. Mearns
Target entity description: Jeffrey S. Mearns is an American academic leader and attorney who serves as the president of Ball State University in Indiana.
  • A. Jeffrey Stott
    Jeffrey Stott is a film producer best known for his work on the political comedy film "The American President."
  • B. Andrew D. Martin
    Andrew D. Martin is an American political scientist and academic administrator who serves as the chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis.
  • C. Peter A. Tyrrell
    Peter A. Tyrrell was an American sports executive and promoter best known for his role in establishing and developing the early professional basketball franchise that became the Philadelphia Warriors.
  • D. Michael T. Williamson
    Michael T. Williamson is an American actor best known for his role as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue in the film Forrest Gump.
  • E. Barrie M. Osborne
    Barrie M. Osborne is an American film producer best known for his work on large-scale, critically acclaimed epics such as The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
  • 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_69bd4410bbf88190aad50d2451c863d6 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6e2444dc819088d5562e90d16d9b completed March 20, 2026, 3:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bed90355a88190bc1aafed3ad74625 completed March 21, 2026, 5:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bed9f3624c8190b9d22fa0594dd767 completed March 21, 2026, 5:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69beda5d39b88190a7314f673de2719d completed March 21, 2026, 5:50 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:28 p.m.