Triple

T537981
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Smoky Joe Wood E12368 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Howard Ellsworth Wood
Howard Ellsworth "Smoky Joe" Wood was an American Major League Baseball pitcher and later outfielder, famed for his dominant fastball and standout seasons with the Boston Red Sox in the early 20th century.
E214890 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: Howard Ellsworth Wood | Statement: [Smoky Joe Wood, fullName, Howard Ellsworth Wood]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Ellsworth Wood
Context triple: [Smoky Joe Wood, fullName, Howard Ellsworth Wood]
  • A. Howard Vollum
    Howard Vollum was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Tektronix, a pioneering company in oscilloscopes and electronic test equipment.
  • B. John Joseph Woods
    John Joseph Woods was a New Zealand schoolteacher and musician best known for composing the music to the national anthem "God Defend New Zealand."
  • C. Hamilton Luske
    Hamilton Luske was an American animator and film director best known for his work on classic Walt Disney animated features.
  • D. Milton Van Dyke
    Milton Van Dyke was an influential American fluid dynamicist and author known for his classic works on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, including the widely used reference "An Album of Fluid Motion."
  • E. Andrew Heiskell
    Andrew Heiskell was an American publishing executive and philanthropist best known as a longtime leader of Time Inc. and a prominent figure in New York’s cultural and civic life.
  • 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: Howard Ellsworth Wood
Triple: [Smoky Joe Wood, fullName, Howard Ellsworth Wood]
Generated description
Howard Ellsworth "Smoky Joe" Wood was an American Major League Baseball pitcher and later outfielder, famed for his dominant fastball and standout seasons with the Boston Red Sox in the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Ellsworth Wood
Target entity description: Howard Ellsworth "Smoky Joe" Wood was an American Major League Baseball pitcher and later outfielder, famed for his dominant fastball and standout seasons with the Boston Red Sox in the early 20th century.
  • A. Howard Vollum
    Howard Vollum was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Tektronix, a pioneering company in oscilloscopes and electronic test equipment.
  • B. John Joseph Woods
    John Joseph Woods was a New Zealand schoolteacher and musician best known for composing the music to the national anthem "God Defend New Zealand."
  • C. Hamilton Luske
    Hamilton Luske was an American animator and film director best known for his work on classic Walt Disney animated features.
  • D. Milton Van Dyke
    Milton Van Dyke was an influential American fluid dynamicist and author known for his classic works on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, including the widely used reference "An Album of Fluid Motion."
  • E. Andrew Heiskell
    Andrew Heiskell was an American publishing executive and philanthropist best known as a longtime leader of Time Inc. and a prominent figure in New York’s cultural and civic life.
  • 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_69a4933208e88190891f5debab1b776d completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a496dc0aac8190afb75ec6c47a1d2d completed March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adf39f5694819086fcdbd27fa2ea4b completed March 8, 2026, 10:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adf471909881909de20d9d1fa0b372 completed March 8, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adf50b17a081909b93ad3e08c71772 completed March 8, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.