Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nichols E172500 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Herbert Nichols
Herbert Nichols was an American psychologist and academic known for his early work in experimental psychology and contributions to the development of psychological laboratories in the United States.
E680866 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: Herbert Nichols | Statement: [Nichols, hasNotableBearer, Herbert Nichols]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herbert Nichols
Context triple: [Nichols, hasNotableBearer, Herbert Nichols]
  • A. George Nichols
    George Nichols was an American actor and film director active during the silent film era.
  • B. George Nichols
    George Nichols was a 19th-century American publisher known for issuing notable literary works, including influential satirical and poetic writings.
  • C. Herbert Horne
    Herbert Horne was a British designer, typographer, art historian, and key figure in the Arts and Crafts movement who helped shape late 19th-century artistic and craft reform in England.
  • D. Granville Hicks
    Granville Hicks was an American literary critic, novelist, and educator known for his Marxist-influenced criticism and his role in mid-20th-century American literary and political debates.
  • E. Charles A. Nichols
    Charles A. Nichols was an American animator and film director best known for his work at Disney and for directing the animated adaptation of "Charlotte's Web."
  • 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: Herbert Nichols
Triple: [Nichols, hasNotableBearer, Herbert Nichols]
Generated description
Herbert Nichols was an American psychologist and academic known for his early work in experimental psychology and contributions to the development of psychological laboratories in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herbert Nichols
Target entity description: Herbert Nichols was an American psychologist and academic known for his early work in experimental psychology and contributions to the development of psychological laboratories in the United States.
  • A. George Nichols
    George Nichols was a 19th-century American publisher known for issuing notable literary works, including influential satirical and poetic writings.
  • B. George Nichols
    George Nichols was an American actor and film director active during the silent film era.
  • C. Herbert Horne
    Herbert Horne was a British designer, typographer, art historian, and key figure in the Arts and Crafts movement who helped shape late 19th-century artistic and craft reform in England.
  • D. Granville Hicks
    Granville Hicks was an American literary critic, novelist, and educator known for his Marxist-influenced criticism and his role in mid-20th-century American literary and political debates.
  • E. Charles A. Nichols
    Charles A. Nichols was an American animator and film director best known for his work at Disney and for directing the animated adaptation of "Charlotte's Web."
  • 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_69c699506b308190826894dab1d9ea86 completed March 27, 2026, 2:50 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6fa62870c8190b17f44eb7a3ff2ad completed March 27, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8a212d0888190a40cdf32ef53d993 completed March 29, 2026, 3:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8a30d3fac8190bec7e2748bc8f17e completed March 29, 2026, 3:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8a3d2e660819099f90a9e43310381 completed March 29, 2026, 4 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:56 p.m.