Triple
T5379913
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Sloane Coffin |
E113054
|
entity |
| Predicate | parent |
P120
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
William Sloane Coffin Sr.
William Sloane Coffin Sr. was an American businessman and publisher, best known as the longtime president of the prominent New York publishing house W. W. Norton & Company.
|
E517703
|
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 Sloane Coffin Sr. | Statement: [William Sloane Coffin, parent, William Sloane Coffin Sr.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Sloane Coffin Sr. Context triple: [William Sloane Coffin, parent, William Sloane Coffin Sr.]
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A.
William Sloane Coffin
William Sloane Coffin was an influential American Christian clergyman and social activist best known for his leadership in the civil rights and anti–Vietnam War movements.
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B.
Harvey Cox
Harvey Cox is an American Baptist theologian and Harvard Divinity School professor emeritus best known for his influential works on secularization, urban theology, and the role of religion in contemporary society, including the landmark book "The Secular City."
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C.
Timothy C. May
Timothy C. May was an American technical and political writer, former Intel engineer, and co-founder of the cypherpunk movement known for his influential essays on cryptography, digital privacy, and crypto-anarchism.
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D.
Henry Sloane Coffin
Henry Sloane Coffin was an influential American Presbyterian minister, theologian, and president of Union Theological Seminary in New York City in the early 20th century.
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E.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Harry Emerson Fosdick was an influential early 20th-century American liberal Protestant minister and theologian known for his progressive views and widely heard radio sermons.
- 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 Sloane Coffin Sr. Triple: [William Sloane Coffin, parent, William Sloane Coffin Sr.]
Generated description
William Sloane Coffin Sr. was an American businessman and publisher, best known as the longtime president of the prominent New York publishing house W. W. Norton & Company.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Sloane Coffin Sr. Target entity description: William Sloane Coffin Sr. was an American businessman and publisher, best known as the longtime president of the prominent New York publishing house W. W. Norton & Company.
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A.
William Sloane Coffin
William Sloane Coffin was an influential American Christian clergyman and social activist best known for his leadership in the civil rights and anti–Vietnam War movements.
-
B.
Harvey Cox
Harvey Cox is an American Baptist theologian and Harvard Divinity School professor emeritus best known for his influential works on secularization, urban theology, and the role of religion in contemporary society, including the landmark book "The Secular City."
-
C.
Timothy C. May
Timothy C. May was an American technical and political writer, former Intel engineer, and co-founder of the cypherpunk movement known for his influential essays on cryptography, digital privacy, and crypto-anarchism.
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D.
Henry Sloane Coffin
Henry Sloane Coffin was an influential American Presbyterian minister, theologian, and president of Union Theological Seminary in New York City in the early 20th century.
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E.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Harry Emerson Fosdick was an influential early 20th-century American liberal Protestant minister and theologian known for his progressive views and widely heard radio sermons.
- 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_69bd4436a1988190af18dcff7fd306b4 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd86ce56c88190a66b3852416edccb |
completed | March 20, 2026, 5:41 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69bf335661c8819091058a5275b95284 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 12:09 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69bf3497be98819085a7c33ee69064c1 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 12:15 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69bf35570404819090e553b7921c4cb8 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 12:18 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:03 p.m.