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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.