Triple

T7985999
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Google File System E185682 entity
Predicate paperAuthors P2002 FINISHED
Object Howard Gobioff
Howard Gobioff was a computer scientist and early Google engineer best known as a co-author of the influential Google File System paper that helped shape modern distributed storage systems.
 E729146 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: Howard Gobioff | Statement: [Google File System, paperAuthors, Howard Gobioff]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Howard Gobioff
Context triple: [Google File System, paperAuthors, Howard Gobioff]
  • A. Thomas Blatt
    Thomas Blatt was a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, writer, and speaker best known for his escape from the Sobibor extermination camp and his later efforts to document its history.
  • B. Howard Rosenman
    Howard Rosenman is an American film producer known for his work on popular Hollywood movies and for helping bring LGBTQ themes into mainstream cinema.
  • C. Hal Bidlack
    Hal Bidlack is an American political science professor, retired U.S. Air Force officer, and public speaker known for his work in skepticism and secular humanism.
  • D. Charles Guggenheim
    Charles Guggenheim was an American documentary filmmaker renowned for his politically engaged and historically focused films, earning multiple Academy Awards over his career.
  • E. Glenn Fleshler
    Glenn Fleshler is an American character actor known for his intense and often menacing roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "True Detective," "Billions," and "Joker."
  • 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: Howard Gobioff
Triple: [Google File System, paperAuthors, Howard Gobioff]
Generated description
Howard Gobioff was a computer scientist and early Google engineer best known as a co-author of the influential Google File System paper that helped shape modern distributed storage systems.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Howard Gobioff
Target entity description: Howard Gobioff was a computer scientist and early Google engineer best known as a co-author of the influential Google File System paper that helped shape modern distributed storage systems.
  • A. Thomas Blatt
    Thomas Blatt was a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, writer, and speaker best known for his escape from the Sobibor extermination camp and his later efforts to document its history.
  • B. Howard Rosenman
    Howard Rosenman is an American film producer known for his work on popular Hollywood movies and for helping bring LGBTQ themes into mainstream cinema.
  • C. Hal Bidlack
    Hal Bidlack is an American political science professor, retired U.S. Air Force officer, and public speaker known for his work in skepticism and secular humanism.
  • D. Charles Guggenheim
    Charles Guggenheim was an American documentary filmmaker renowned for his politically engaged and historically focused films, earning multiple Academy Awards over his career.
  • E. Glenn Fleshler
    Glenn Fleshler is an American character actor known for his intense and often menacing roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "True Detective," "Billions," and "Joker."
  • 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_69ca829a2cfc819083d591d58ec04075 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb3c4b87e48190a797f5363c8f0a04 completed March 31, 2026, 3:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cde6c762848190b987cf25fa4e73a3 completed April 2, 2026, 3:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cdeb1fa7308190810b1fcc2184374a completed April 2, 2026, 4:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cdec3081d88190ad0699f9072d3fc7 completed April 2, 2026, 4:10 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:15 p.m.