Triple
T7275856
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Martin Balsam |
E163024
|
entity |
| Predicate | role |
P268
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Howard Simons in All the President's Men
Howard Simons in *All the President's Men* is the Washington Post managing editor who helps guide and support reporters Woodward and Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal.
|
E653261
|
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: Howard Simons in All the President's Men | Statement: [Martin Balsam, role, Howard Simons in All the President's Men]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Simons in All the President's Men Context triple: [Martin Balsam, role, Howard Simons in All the President's Men]
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A.
Lou Grant
Lou Grant is a gruff but warm-hearted television news producer, portrayed by Ed Asner, who became one of American TV’s most iconic newsroom bosses and later headlined his own dramatic spin-off series.
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B.
Bob Woodward
Bob Woodward is an American investigative journalist and author best known for his reporting on the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post, which helped lead to President Richard Nixon’s resignation.
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C.
John W. Carlin
John W. Carlin is an American politician and public official who served as Governor of Kansas before later becoming the Archivist of the United States.
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D.
John Birt in Frost/Nixon
John Birt in Frost/Nixon is the dramatized version of the real-life former BBC Director-General who serves as a key advisor and strategist to David Frost during his televised interviews with Richard Nixon.
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E.
Proxmire
Proxmire is the surname of William Proxmire, a prominent 20th-century American politician and long-serving U.S. senator from Wisconsin.
- 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: Howard Simons in All the President's Men Triple: [Martin Balsam, role, Howard Simons in All the President's Men]
Generated description
Howard Simons in *All the President's Men* is the Washington Post managing editor who helps guide and support reporters Woodward and Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Simons in All the President's Men Target entity description: Howard Simons in *All the President's Men* is the Washington Post managing editor who helps guide and support reporters Woodward and Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate scandal.
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A.
Lou Grant
Lou Grant is a gruff but warm-hearted television news producer, portrayed by Ed Asner, who became one of American TV’s most iconic newsroom bosses and later headlined his own dramatic spin-off series.
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B.
Bob Woodward
Bob Woodward is an American investigative journalist and author best known for his reporting on the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post, which helped lead to President Richard Nixon’s resignation.
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C.
John W. Carlin
John W. Carlin is an American politician and public official who served as Governor of Kansas before later becoming the Archivist of the United States.
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D.
John Birt in Frost/Nixon
John Birt in Frost/Nixon is the dramatized version of the real-life former BBC Director-General who serves as a key advisor and strategist to David Frost during his televised interviews with Richard Nixon.
-
E.
Proxmire
Proxmire is the surname of William Proxmire, a prominent 20th-century American politician and long-serving U.S. senator from Wisconsin.
- 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_69c6885c5964819085b209701769877f |
completed | March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6eb0fd8788190aa21d4b2ad773926 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 8:39 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c7db2c76fc81909632c7ee4e54f81c |
completed | March 28, 2026, 1:44 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c7dc1469e08190a0b2b924884885e6 |
completed | March 28, 2026, 1:48 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c7dca05ad081908e2036ba6c909c09 |
completed | March 28, 2026, 1:50 p.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:58 p.m.