Triple

T7393706
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Civil Action E170567 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object Jonathan Harr
Jonathan Harr is an American author and journalist best known for his nonfiction legal thriller "A Civil Action," which chronicles a landmark environmental lawsuit.
E662014 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: Jonathan Harr | Statement: [A Civil Action, author, Jonathan Harr]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jonathan Harr
Context triple: [A Civil Action, author, Jonathan Harr]
  • A. Eric Larson
    Eric Larson was a prominent American animator and one of Disney’s legendary “Nine Old Men,” known for his influential work on many classic Disney films.
  • B. Mitchell Zuckoff
    Mitchell Zuckoff is an American journalist, nonfiction author, and Boston University professor known for his narrative histories and investigative works, including the book that inspired the film "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi."
  • C. Kai Bird
    Kai Bird is an American historian, biographer, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for co-writing the J. Robert Oppenheimer biography "American Prometheus."
  • D. David Grann
    David Grann is an American journalist and bestselling author known for his meticulously researched narrative nonfiction works such as "The Lost City of Z" and "Killers of the Flower Moon."
  • E. Ken Follett
    Ken Follett is a bestselling Welsh author renowned for his historical and thriller novels, including "The Pillars of the Earth" and "Eye of the Needle."
  • 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: Jonathan Harr
Triple: [A Civil Action, author, Jonathan Harr]
Generated description
Jonathan Harr is an American author and journalist best known for his nonfiction legal thriller "A Civil Action," which chronicles a landmark environmental lawsuit.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jonathan Harr
Target entity description: Jonathan Harr is an American author and journalist best known for his nonfiction legal thriller "A Civil Action," which chronicles a landmark environmental lawsuit.
  • A. Eric Larson
    Eric Larson was a prominent American animator and one of Disney’s legendary “Nine Old Men,” known for his influential work on many classic Disney films.
  • B. Mitchell Zuckoff
    Mitchell Zuckoff is an American journalist, nonfiction author, and Boston University professor known for his narrative histories and investigative works, including the book that inspired the film "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi."
  • C. Kai Bird
    Kai Bird is an American historian, biographer, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for co-writing the J. Robert Oppenheimer biography "American Prometheus."
  • D. David Grann
    David Grann is an American journalist and bestselling author known for his meticulously researched narrative nonfiction works such as "The Lost City of Z" and "Killers of the Flower Moon."
  • E. Ken Follett
    Ken Follett is a bestselling Welsh author renowned for his historical and thriller novels, including "The Pillars of the Earth" and "Eye of the Needle."
  • 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_69c68a5e2c9081909e713ce866e0060a completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f2263b48819089319a2a2f0d3357 completed March 27, 2026, 9:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c810f82ba08190919924b0994a2eee completed March 28, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c811f1fe3c8190a591186b19044b5f completed March 28, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c812c1e9d08190b0e7f052d87011b9 completed March 28, 2026, 5:41 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:09 p.m.