Triple

T5600896
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Billy Budd E147115 entity
Predicate posthumouslyEditedBy P64983 FINISHED
Object F. Barron Freeman
F. Barron Freeman was a scholar and editor known for preparing posthumous editions of literary works, including Herman Melville’s "Billy Budd."
E536866 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: F. Barron Freeman | Statement: [Billy Budd, posthumouslyEditedBy, F. Barron Freeman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: F. Barron Freeman
Context triple: [Billy Budd, posthumouslyEditedBy, F. Barron Freeman]
  • A. J. E. Freeman
    J. E. Freeman was an American character actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in films such as *Alien: Resurrection* and *Miller’s Crossing*.
  • B. William Edmund Barrett
    William Edmund Barrett was an American novelist best known for writing the inspirational novel "Lilies of the Field," which was later adapted into an Academy Award–winning film.
  • C. Francis Newton Gifford
    Francis Newton Gifford was a prominent American football player and Hall of Famer who became widely known as a longtime sportscaster on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
  • D. Charles R. Fenwick
    Charles R. Fenwick was a Virginia lawyer and long-serving state legislator known for his influence on transportation policy, for whom the Charles R. Fenwick Bridge is named.
  • E. Charles D. Norton
    Charles D. Norton was an American figure notable for helping establish the American Cancer Society, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to cancer research and patient support.
  • 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: F. Barron Freeman
Triple: [Billy Budd, posthumouslyEditedBy, F. Barron Freeman]
Generated description
F. Barron Freeman was a scholar and editor known for preparing posthumous editions of literary works, including Herman Melville’s "Billy Budd."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: F. Barron Freeman
Target entity description: F. Barron Freeman was a scholar and editor known for preparing posthumous editions of literary works, including Herman Melville’s "Billy Budd."
  • A. J. E. Freeman
    J. E. Freeman was an American character actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in films such as *Alien: Resurrection* and *Miller’s Crossing*.
  • B. William Edmund Barrett
    William Edmund Barrett was an American novelist best known for writing the inspirational novel "Lilies of the Field," which was later adapted into an Academy Award–winning film.
  • C. Francis Newton Gifford
    Francis Newton Gifford was a prominent American football player and Hall of Famer who became widely known as a longtime sportscaster on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
  • D. Charles R. Fenwick
    Charles R. Fenwick was a Virginia lawyer and long-serving state legislator known for his influence on transportation policy, for whom the Charles R. Fenwick Bridge is named.
  • E. Charles D. Norton
    Charles D. Norton was an American figure notable for helping establish the American Cancer Society, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to cancer research and patient support.
  • 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_69c009043d648190a7af89698ccf1e3e completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c021d8d600819097df4e265e262d90 completed March 22, 2026, 5:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c04d40049881908bf32e4932094c52 completed March 22, 2026, 8:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c04e88680c8190845723f52c060fb7 completed March 22, 2026, 8:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c04f7856848190a835c3ee0a32f649 completed March 22, 2026, 8:22 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:38 p.m.