Triple

T6524810
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dean Koontz E151275 entity
Predicate hasPseudonym P3799 FINISHED
Object David Axton
David Axton is a pseudonym used by bestselling American suspense and horror novelist Dean Koontz for some of his early works.
 E605107 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: David Axton | Statement: [Dean Koontz, hasPseudonym, David Axton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David Axton
Context triple: [Dean Koontz, hasPseudonym, David Axton]
  • A. James Axton
    James Axton is the American academic-turned-intelligence analyst who narrates and anchors Don DeLillo’s novel *The Names*, exploring themes of language, terrorism, and cultural dislocation in the late 20th century.
  • B. Michael Barratt
    Michael Barratt is a Welsh rock and roll singer best known by his stage name Shakin' Stevens, who became one of the UK's most successful chart acts in the 1980s.
  • C. Leon Askin
    Leon Askin was an Austrian-American character actor best known for his role as the stern General Burkhalter on the television series "Hogan's Heroes."
  • D. Luke Murray
    Luke Murray is an American basketball coach known for his assistant coaching roles at several major college programs and as the son of actor Bill Murray.
  • E. Ian Hill
    Ian Hill is an English bassist best known as a founding member of the heavy metal band Judas Priest.
  • 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: David Axton
Triple: [Dean Koontz, hasPseudonym, David Axton]
Generated description
David Axton is a pseudonym used by bestselling American suspense and horror novelist Dean Koontz for some of his early works.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David Axton
Target entity description: David Axton is a pseudonym used by bestselling American suspense and horror novelist Dean Koontz for some of his early works.
  • A. James Axton
    James Axton is the American academic-turned-intelligence analyst who narrates and anchors Don DeLillo’s novel *The Names*, exploring themes of language, terrorism, and cultural dislocation in the late 20th century.
  • B. Michael Barratt
    Michael Barratt is a Welsh rock and roll singer best known by his stage name Shakin' Stevens, who became one of the UK's most successful chart acts in the 1980s.
  • C. Leon Askin
    Leon Askin was an Austrian-American character actor best known for his role as the stern General Burkhalter on the television series "Hogan's Heroes."
  • D. Luke Murray
    Luke Murray is an American basketball coach known for his assistant coaching roles at several major college programs and as the son of actor Bill Murray.
  • E. Ian Hill
    Ian Hill is an English bassist best known as a founding member of the heavy metal band Judas Priest.
  • 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_69c687f522748190b3058405553cdabd completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6ad9831f88190a2b64cf6bc8c9a11 completed March 27, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6d52372d08190a98c611dabc27c85 completed March 27, 2026, 7:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6d6d9af148190ad9cd2cc31a70bb7 completed March 27, 2026, 7:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6d98506b88190aae3b4d887744648 completed March 27, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:45 p.m.