Triple

T6156295
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Andrew Cockburn E137328 entity
Predicate sibling P363 FINISHED
Object Alexander Cockburn
Alexander Cockburn was a British-born Irish-American political journalist and columnist known for his sharp left-wing commentary and co-editing the newsletter CounterPunch.
 E573426 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: Alexander Cockburn | Statement: [Andrew Cockburn, sibling, Alexander Cockburn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alexander Cockburn
Context triple: [Andrew Cockburn, sibling, Alexander Cockburn]
  • A. Andrew Cockburn
    Andrew Cockburn is a British-American journalist and author known for his investigative reporting and books on national security, military affairs, and U.S. foreign policy.
  • B. Matthew Parris
    Matthew Parris is a British political commentator, columnist, and former Conservative MP known for his incisive and often witty analysis of UK politics.
  • C. Stanley Crouch
    Stanley Crouch was an American essayist, cultural critic, and jazz historian known for his outspoken views on jazz, race, and American culture.
  • D. William Burnie
    William Burnie is the person after whom the Australian city of Burnie in Tasmania is named.
  • E. Alexander James Edmund Cockburn
    Alexander James Edmund Cockburn was a prominent 19th-century British lawyer, politician, and Lord Chief Justice of England known for presiding over several high-profile legal cases.
  • 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: Alexander Cockburn
Triple: [Andrew Cockburn, sibling, Alexander Cockburn]
Generated description
Alexander Cockburn was a British-born Irish-American political journalist and columnist known for his sharp left-wing commentary and co-editing the newsletter CounterPunch.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alexander Cockburn
Target entity description: Alexander Cockburn was a British-born Irish-American political journalist and columnist known for his sharp left-wing commentary and co-editing the newsletter CounterPunch.
  • A. Andrew Cockburn
    Andrew Cockburn is a British-American journalist and author known for his investigative reporting and books on national security, military affairs, and U.S. foreign policy.
  • B. Matthew Parris
    Matthew Parris is a British political commentator, columnist, and former Conservative MP known for his incisive and often witty analysis of UK politics.
  • C. Stanley Crouch
    Stanley Crouch was an American essayist, cultural critic, and jazz historian known for his outspoken views on jazz, race, and American culture.
  • D. William Burnie
    William Burnie is the person after whom the Australian city of Burnie in Tasmania is named.
  • E. Alexander James Edmund Cockburn
    Alexander James Edmund Cockburn was a prominent 19th-century British lawyer, politician, and Lord Chief Justice of England known for presiding over several high-profile legal cases.
  • 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_69c008a45d008190832a9e19f5d63406 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c05d0376408190a2233375f478377e completed March 22, 2026, 9:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c141867fac819093a3093aa8251eac completed March 23, 2026, 1:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c14794c3488190874b0a4d2c00514d completed March 23, 2026, 2 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c1480b10f08190891bfc8488bbaf16 completed March 23, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:17 p.m.