Triple

T5309953
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Howard E118997 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object William Howard
William Howard is a notable individual who shares the Howard surname, which is historically associated with prominent figures in politics, nobility, and public life.
 E510754 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 Howard | Statement: [Howard, hasNotableBearer, William Howard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Howard
Context triple: [Howard, hasNotableBearer, William Howard]
  • A. William Arthur
    William Arthur was an Irish-born Baptist minister best known as the father of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur.
  • B. John Wilson
    John Wilson was a prominent Puritan minister in early colonial Massachusetts, known for his staunch opposition to Anne Hutchinson during the Antinomian Controversy.
  • C. John Wilson
    John Wilson is a film editor best known for his work on the visually striking 1989 British-French crime drama "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover."
  • D. John Maxwell Adams
    John Maxwell Adams was the father of Joan Mondale, who was the wife of former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale.
  • E. Thomas Franklin
    Thomas Franklin was the paternal grandfather of Benjamin Franklin and an English blacksmith from Northamptonshire.
  • 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 Howard
Triple: [Howard, hasNotableBearer, William Howard]
Generated description
William Howard is a notable individual who shares the Howard surname, which is historically associated with prominent figures in politics, nobility, and public life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Howard
Target entity description: William Howard is a notable individual who shares the Howard surname, which is historically associated with prominent figures in politics, nobility, and public life.
  • A. William Arthur
    William Arthur was an Irish-born Baptist minister best known as the father of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur.
  • B. John Wilson
    John Wilson was a prominent Puritan minister in early colonial Massachusetts, known for his staunch opposition to Anne Hutchinson during the Antinomian Controversy.
  • C. John Wilson
    John Wilson is a film editor best known for his work on the visually striking 1989 British-French crime drama "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover."
  • D. John Maxwell Adams
    John Maxwell Adams was the father of Joan Mondale, who was the wife of former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale.
  • E. Thomas Franklin
    Thomas Franklin was the paternal grandfather of Benjamin Franklin and an English blacksmith from Northamptonshire.
  • 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_69bd446b57bc8190a513d2e6c40314f3 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd8532c26c819084f5b8de542cd309 completed March 20, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf10ffb1f08190aba4c1c860085c92 completed March 21, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf14c687908190bafa9f99e10d7698 completed March 21, 2026, 9:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf15675c888190ae8107fdab02aa25 completed March 21, 2026, 10:02 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:53 p.m.