Triple
T5086642
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Mad magazine |
E114653
|
entity |
| Predicate | founder |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Harvey Kurtzman |
E491409
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Harvey Kurtzman | Statement: [Mad magazine, founder, Harvey Kurtzman]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harvey Kurtzman Context triple: [Mad magazine, founder, Harvey Kurtzman]
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A.
Harvey Kurtzman
chosen
Harvey Kurtzman was an influential American cartoonist, writer, and editor best known for pioneering satirical comics and shaping modern humor through his work on Mad and other groundbreaking publications.
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B.
Larry Eigner
Larry Eigner was an American poet associated with the Black Mountain and Language poetry movements, known for his visually spaced, minimalist verse often composed from his wheelchair.
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C.
Jim Aparo
Jim Aparo was an American comic book artist best known for his influential work on Batman titles and other DC Comics series from the 1970s through the 1990s.
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D.
Julius Schwartz
Julius Schwartz was a pioneering American comic book editor at DC Comics, best known for revitalizing superheroes during the Silver Age of Comics and shaping iconic characters like the Flash and Green Lantern.
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E.
Frank R. Paul
Frank R. Paul was a pioneering American illustrator best known for his influential, vividly imaginative science fiction magazine covers in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69bd443e941881908eb4e8c685b6f656 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd751fb6dc8190be674c92a17e8c0e |
completed | March 20, 2026, 4:26 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69beba72a7b88190a118ff5f31079eff |
completed | March 21, 2026, 3:34 p.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:40 p.m.