Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Samori Coates E119518 entity
Predicate hasRelative P367 FINISHED
Object William Paul Coates
William Paul Coates is an American publisher, activist, and founder of Black Classic Press, known for preserving and promoting works of African and African-American literature.
E523925 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: William Paul Coates | Statement: [Samori Coates, hasRelative, William Paul Coates]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Paul Coates
Context triple: [Samori Coates, hasRelative, William Paul Coates]
  • A. Donald Cooksey
    Donald Cooksey was an American physicist known for his work in nuclear physics and his leadership role at the MIT Radiation Laboratory during World War II.
  • B. Dennis Coles
    Dennis Coles, better known by his stage name Ghostface Killah, is an American rapper and prominent member of the Wu-Tang Clan.
  • C. William Cooper
    William Cooper was an American land developer and judge best known as the founder of Cooperstown, New York, and the patriarch of the Cooper family that included novelist James Fenimore Cooper.
  • D. William Cooper
    William Cooper was an Aboriginal Australian activist and Yorta Yorta elder best known for his pioneering political advocacy for Indigenous rights and justice in the early 20th century.
  • E. Howard Coit
    Howard Coit was the husband of San Francisco socialite and philanthropist Lillie Hitchcock Coit, after whom Coit Tower is named.
  • 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: William Paul Coates
Triple: [Samori Coates, hasRelative, William Paul Coates]
Generated description
William Paul Coates is an American publisher, activist, and founder of Black Classic Press, known for preserving and promoting works of African and African-American literature.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Paul Coates
Target entity description: William Paul Coates is an American publisher, activist, and founder of Black Classic Press, known for preserving and promoting works of African and African-American literature.
  • A. Donald Cooksey
    Donald Cooksey was an American physicist known for his work in nuclear physics and his leadership role at the MIT Radiation Laboratory during World War II.
  • B. Dennis Coles
    Dennis Coles, better known by his stage name Ghostface Killah, is an American rapper and prominent member of the Wu-Tang Clan.
  • C. William Cooper
    William Cooper was an American land developer and judge best known as the founder of Cooperstown, New York, and the patriarch of the Cooper family that included novelist James Fenimore Cooper.
  • D. William Cooper
    William Cooper was an Aboriginal Australian activist and Yorta Yorta elder best known for his pioneering political advocacy for Indigenous rights and justice in the early 20th century.
  • E. Howard Coit
    Howard Coit was the husband of San Francisco socialite and philanthropist Lillie Hitchcock Coit, after whom Coit Tower is named.
  • 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_69bd446d05a8819092ad333a3f9c8d5c completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd84c69780819097a1ea9385e11077 completed March 20, 2026, 5:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf6c3bfdc48190984c8b55ece53fbe completed March 22, 2026, 4:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf6d267e808190b4085e07d31af1b7 completed March 22, 2026, 4:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf6e497dd88190895fe68a7c8f6d65 completed March 22, 2026, 4:21 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:52 p.m.