Triple

T6691776
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject St. Louis Browns E152643 entity
Predicate notablePlayer P304 FINISHED
Object Vern Stephens
Vern Stephens was a power-hitting All-Star shortstop in Major League Baseball during the 1940s and early 1950s, known especially for his run production and slugging from a traditionally defensive position.
E614258 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: Vern Stephens | Statement: [St. Louis Browns, notablePlayer, Vern Stephens]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vern Stephens
Context triple: [St. Louis Browns, notablePlayer, Vern Stephens]
  • A. Harvey Stephens
    Harvey Stephens is a British actor best known for his chilling portrayal of the demonic child Damien in the 1976 horror film "The Omen."
  • B. Clifton McNeely
    Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach known for being the first overall pick in the inaugural 1947 BAA (now NBA) draft.
  • C. Dorris Bowdon
    Dorris Bowdon was an American film actress best known for her role in the classic 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck’s "The Grapes of Wrath."
  • D. Charles Neblett
    Charles Neblett is an American civil rights activist and singer best known as a founding member of the SNCC Freedom Singers, who used music to support and advance the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
  • E. Vernard Eller
    Vernard Eller was an American theologian, author, and Church of the Brethren minister known for his influential writings on radical discipleship, simplicity, and the church’s relationship to power.
  • 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: Vern Stephens
Triple: [St. Louis Browns, notablePlayer, Vern Stephens]
Generated description
Vern Stephens was a power-hitting All-Star shortstop in Major League Baseball during the 1940s and early 1950s, known especially for his run production and slugging from a traditionally defensive position.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vern Stephens
Target entity description: Vern Stephens was a power-hitting All-Star shortstop in Major League Baseball during the 1940s and early 1950s, known especially for his run production and slugging from a traditionally defensive position.
  • A. Harvey Stephens
    Harvey Stephens is a British actor best known for his chilling portrayal of the demonic child Damien in the 1976 horror film "The Omen."
  • B. Clifton McNeely
    Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach known for being the first overall pick in the inaugural 1947 BAA (now NBA) draft.
  • C. Dorris Bowdon
    Dorris Bowdon was an American film actress best known for her role in the classic 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck’s "The Grapes of Wrath."
  • D. Charles Neblett
    Charles Neblett is an American civil rights activist and singer best known as a founding member of the SNCC Freedom Singers, who used music to support and advance the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
  • E. Vernard Eller
    Vernard Eller was an American theologian, author, and Church of the Brethren minister known for his influential writings on radical discipleship, simplicity, and the church’s relationship to power.
  • 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_69c6880687b08190805278b504d1c92c completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6b193a8c08190a99152a8eca018e6 completed March 27, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7007d2cb881909cebe2ab0d55ce3d completed March 27, 2026, 10:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7054749ac8190b0d8153dcf9fd8a0 completed March 27, 2026, 10:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c705db3098819083ce9a93e429b758 completed March 27, 2026, 10:34 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:05 p.m.