Triple

T7497823
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject We Bought a Zoo E177177 entity
Predicate basedOnAuthor P2806 FINISHED
Object Benjamin Mee
Benjamin Mee is a British writer and former journalist best known for his memoir about buying and restoring a dilapidated zoo, which inspired the film "We Bought a Zoo."
 E669050 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: Benjamin Mee | Statement: [We Bought a Zoo, basedOnAuthor, Benjamin Mee]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Benjamin Mee
Context triple: [We Bought a Zoo, basedOnAuthor, Benjamin Mee]
  • A. Piers Torday
    Piers Torday is a British children's author best known for his award-winning fantasy series "The Last Wild."
  • B. Carl Bennett
    Carl Bennett was an American basketball coach and executive best known for his leadership role with the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons franchise in its early professional years.
  • C. Iain Farrington
    Iain Farrington is a British pianist, organist, composer, and arranger known for his versatile work across classical and contemporary music, including high-profile national events.
  • D. Martin Sixsmith
    Martin Sixsmith is a British journalist, author, and former BBC correspondent known for his investigative writing, including the book that inspired the film "Philomena."
  • E. Nicholas Beauman
    Nicholas Beauman is a British editor and publisher known for championing and reissuing neglected literary works, particularly through the imprint Persephone Books.
  • 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: Benjamin Mee
Triple: [We Bought a Zoo, basedOnAuthor, Benjamin Mee]
Generated description
Benjamin Mee is a British writer and former journalist best known for his memoir about buying and restoring a dilapidated zoo, which inspired the film "We Bought a Zoo."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Benjamin Mee
Target entity description: Benjamin Mee is a British writer and former journalist best known for his memoir about buying and restoring a dilapidated zoo, which inspired the film "We Bought a Zoo."
  • A. Piers Torday
    Piers Torday is a British children's author best known for his award-winning fantasy series "The Last Wild."
  • B. Carl Bennett
    Carl Bennett was an American basketball coach and executive best known for his leadership role with the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons franchise in its early professional years.
  • C. Iain Farrington
    Iain Farrington is a British pianist, organist, composer, and arranger known for his versatile work across classical and contemporary music, including high-profile national events.
  • D. Martin Sixsmith
    Martin Sixsmith is a British journalist, author, and former BBC correspondent known for his investigative writing, including the book that inspired the film "Philomena."
  • E. Nicholas Beauman
    Nicholas Beauman is a British editor and publisher known for championing and reissuing neglected literary works, particularly through the imprint Persephone Books.
  • 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_69c69f2696688190915a8458f2398211 completed March 27, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f5963d98819098275b161848d2d4 completed March 27, 2026, 9:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c83c8b28d0819095c7b666d442c7ab completed March 28, 2026, 8:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c83d49547081909028ac0293dae102 completed March 28, 2026, 8:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8410c22bc8190a1f52179bf3c720b completed March 28, 2026, 8:58 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:44 p.m.