Triple

T7904444
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ping-pong diplomacy E183535 entity
Predicate keyFigure P256 FINISHED
Object Glenn Cowan
Glenn Cowan was an American table tennis player best known for his unexpected interaction with Chinese player Zhuang Zedong that helped spark the historic U.S.–China "ping-pong diplomacy" of the early 1970s.
E700618 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: Glenn Cowan | Statement: [Ping-pong diplomacy, keyFigure, Glenn Cowan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Glenn Cowan
Context triple: [Ping-pong diplomacy, keyFigure, Glenn Cowan]
  • A. Alan Cowan
    Alan Cowan is a tense, sharp-tongued New York lawyer and one of the four central parents in Roman Polanski’s film "Carnage," whose escalating argument drives the movie’s darkly comic conflict.
  • B. Steven G. MacLean
    Steven G. MacLean is a Canadian astronaut and physicist who flew on two Space Shuttle missions and later served as president of the Canadian Space Agency.
  • C. Stephen Barncard
    Stephen Barncard is an American record producer and engineer best known for his work on landmark albums by artists such as the Grateful Dead and David Crosby in the early 1970s.
  • D. Peter Rinearson
    Peter Rinearson is an American journalist and author best known for co-authoring Bill Gates’s book "The Road Ahead" and for his Pulitzer Prize–winning feature writing.
  • E. Jeffrey S. Mearns
    Jeffrey S. Mearns is an American academic leader and attorney who serves as the president of Ball State University in Indiana.
  • 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: Glenn Cowan
Triple: [Ping-pong diplomacy, keyFigure, Glenn Cowan]
Generated description
Glenn Cowan was an American table tennis player best known for his unexpected interaction with Chinese player Zhuang Zedong that helped spark the historic U.S.–China "ping-pong diplomacy" of the early 1970s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Glenn Cowan
Target entity description: Glenn Cowan was an American table tennis player best known for his unexpected interaction with Chinese player Zhuang Zedong that helped spark the historic U.S.–China "ping-pong diplomacy" of the early 1970s.
  • A. Alan Cowan
    Alan Cowan is a tense, sharp-tongued New York lawyer and one of the four central parents in Roman Polanski’s film "Carnage," whose escalating argument drives the movie’s darkly comic conflict.
  • B. Steven G. MacLean
    Steven G. MacLean is a Canadian astronaut and physicist who flew on two Space Shuttle missions and later served as president of the Canadian Space Agency.
  • C. Stephen Barncard
    Stephen Barncard is an American record producer and engineer best known for his work on landmark albums by artists such as the Grateful Dead and David Crosby in the early 1970s.
  • D. Peter Rinearson
    Peter Rinearson is an American journalist and author best known for co-authoring Bill Gates’s book "The Road Ahead" and for his Pulitzer Prize–winning feature writing.
  • E. Jeffrey S. Mearns
    Jeffrey S. Mearns is an American academic leader and attorney who serves as the president of Ball State University in Indiana.
  • 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_69ca828d13088190b222be7aa9f9315c completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb3a4331cc8190b50301c78767a850 completed March 31, 2026, 3:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cb5bc35cec8190bda3dfe7d8d4ed18 completed March 31, 2026, 5:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cb7632cbbc819087107c8d2172a038 completed March 31, 2026, 7:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cbb64eee408190a66cbd0cba3054b4 completed March 31, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:02 p.m.