Triple

T5086684
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mad magazine E114653 entity
Predicate notableWriter P10455 FINISHED
Object Frank Jacobs
Frank Jacobs was a prominent American humorist and satirist best known for his prolific, pun-filled song parodies and articles in Mad magazine.
 E501534 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: Frank Jacobs | Statement: [Mad magazine, notableWriter, Frank Jacobs]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Frank Jacobs
Context triple: [Mad magazine, notableWriter, Frank Jacobs]
  • A. John Jacobs
    John Jacobs is a film and television producer known for developing and overseeing a variety of Hollywood projects.
  • B. William Jacobs
    William Jacobs was an American film producer active during Hollywood's studio era, known for overseeing a range of genre films including classic horror titles.
  • C. Dave Bickler
    Dave Bickler is an American rock singer best known as the original lead vocalist of the band Survivor and for singing their hit song "Eye of the Tiger."
  • D. Charles Walters
    Charles Walters was an American film director and choreographer best known for his work on classic MGM musicals in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Douglas Wick
    Douglas Wick is an American film producer known for acclaimed movies such as "Gladiator," "Working Girl," and "Memoirs of a Geisha."
  • 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: Frank Jacobs
Triple: [Mad magazine, notableWriter, Frank Jacobs]
Generated description
Frank Jacobs was a prominent American humorist and satirist best known for his prolific, pun-filled song parodies and articles in Mad magazine.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Frank Jacobs
Target entity description: Frank Jacobs was a prominent American humorist and satirist best known for his prolific, pun-filled song parodies and articles in Mad magazine.
  • A. John Jacobs
    John Jacobs is a film and television producer known for developing and overseeing a variety of Hollywood projects.
  • B. William Jacobs
    William Jacobs was an American film producer active during Hollywood's studio era, known for overseeing a range of genre films including classic horror titles.
  • C. Dave Bickler
    Dave Bickler is an American rock singer best known as the original lead vocalist of the band Survivor and for singing their hit song "Eye of the Tiger."
  • D. Charles Walters
    Charles Walters was an American film director and choreographer best known for his work on classic MGM musicals in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Douglas Wick
    Douglas Wick is an American film producer known for acclaimed movies such as "Gladiator," "Working Girl," and "Memoirs of a Geisha."
  • 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_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_69bee067be548190b280674ebf125ca3 completed March 21, 2026, 6:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bee62f493881909e8b484534e75359 completed March 21, 2026, 6:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bee6d1eae481909f3861b7c0adc2fd completed March 21, 2026, 6:43 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:40 p.m.