Triple

T4897451
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dickson E109715 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Gordon R. Dickson
Gordon R. Dickson was a Canadian-American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his "Dorsai" (Childe Cycle) series and influential works exploring military strategy, psychology, and human evolution.
E525465 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: Gordon R. Dickson | Statement: [Dickson, hasNotableBearer, Gordon R. Dickson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gordon R. Dickson
Context triple: [Dickson, hasNotableBearer, Gordon R. Dickson]
  • A. Frank H. Wheeler
    Frank H. Wheeler was an American industrialist and early automotive pioneer who co-founded and helped finance the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
  • B. Frederick H. Harbison
    Frederick H. Harbison was an influential American labor economist and educator known for his work on human resources, industrial relations, and economic development.
  • C. Oswald T. Campbell
    Oswald T. Campbell is the lonely, ailing man who finds unexpected community, healing, and hope in a small Alabama town in Fannie Flagg’s novel "A Redbird Christmas."
  • D. Edward J. Noble
    Edward J. Noble was an American businessman and radio and television executive best known for co-founding the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) and for his earlier success with Life Savers candy.
  • E. Stanley G. Thompson
    Stanley G. Thompson was an American chemist best known for co-discovering several transuranium elements, including berkelium and californium, during his work on nuclear chemistry.
  • 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: Gordon R. Dickson
Triple: [Dickson, hasNotableBearer, Gordon R. Dickson]
Generated description
Gordon R. Dickson was a Canadian-American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his "Dorsai" (Childe Cycle) series and influential works exploring military strategy, psychology, and human evolution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gordon R. Dickson
Target entity description: Gordon R. Dickson was a Canadian-American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his "Dorsai" (Childe Cycle) series and influential works exploring military strategy, psychology, and human evolution.
  • A. Frank H. Wheeler
    Frank H. Wheeler was an American industrialist and early automotive pioneer who co-founded and helped finance the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
  • B. Frederick H. Harbison
    Frederick H. Harbison was an influential American labor economist and educator known for his work on human resources, industrial relations, and economic development.
  • C. Oswald T. Campbell
    Oswald T. Campbell is the lonely, ailing man who finds unexpected community, healing, and hope in a small Alabama town in Fannie Flagg’s novel "A Redbird Christmas."
  • D. Edward J. Noble
    Edward J. Noble was an American businessman and radio and television executive best known for co-founding the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) and for his earlier success with Life Savers candy.
  • E. Stanley G. Thompson
    Stanley G. Thompson was an American chemist best known for co-discovering several transuranium elements, including berkelium and californium, during his work on nuclear chemistry.
  • 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_69bd6e49992481908cc7cc1eeafd6494 completed March 20, 2026, 3:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf8bbef34c8190ae4b22a94e1cf91a completed March 22, 2026, 6:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf8daadc44819098c353390d06f540 completed March 22, 2026, 6:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf8e5765188190952e26e42b288531 completed March 22, 2026, 6:38 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:28 p.m.