Triple

T8072888
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Big Bay, Michigan E188417 entity
Predicate associatedWithAuthor P2830 FINISHED
Object John D. Voelker
John D. Voelker was an American author and Michigan Supreme Court justice best known for his novel "Anatomy of a Murder," written under the pen name Robert Traver.
E783216 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: John D. Voelker | Statement: [Big Bay, Michigan, associatedWithAuthor, John D. Voelker]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John D. Voelker
Context triple: [Big Bay, Michigan, associatedWithAuthor, John D. Voelker]
  • A. James S. Voss
    James S. Voss is a retired U.S. Army officer and NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and spent over five months aboard the International Space Station.
  • B. Timothy L. Pflueger
    Timothy L. Pflueger was a prominent American architect known for his influential Art Deco and Moderne designs in the San Francisco Bay Area, including major theaters, skyscrapers, and civic projects.
  • C. Martin J. Hillenbrand
    Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
  • D. Brian L. Hinman
    Brian L. Hinman is an American technology entrepreneur and executive best known for co-founding multiple communications companies, including Polycom, and pioneering advances in voice and video conferencing.
  • E. John Boettiger
    John Boettiger was an American journalist and newspaper publisher best known as the second husband of Anna Roosevelt, daughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • 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: John D. Voelker
Triple: [Big Bay, Michigan, associatedWithAuthor, John D. Voelker]
Generated description
John D. Voelker was an American author and Michigan Supreme Court justice best known for his novel "Anatomy of a Murder," written under the pen name Robert Traver.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John D. Voelker
Target entity description: John D. Voelker was an American author and Michigan Supreme Court justice best known for his novel "Anatomy of a Murder," written under the pen name Robert Traver.
  • A. James S. Voss
    James S. Voss is a retired U.S. Army officer and NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and spent over five months aboard the International Space Station.
  • B. Timothy L. Pflueger
    Timothy L. Pflueger was a prominent American architect known for his influential Art Deco and Moderne designs in the San Francisco Bay Area, including major theaters, skyscrapers, and civic projects.
  • C. Martin J. Hillenbrand
    Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
  • D. Brian L. Hinman
    Brian L. Hinman is an American technology entrepreneur and executive best known for co-founding multiple communications companies, including Polycom, and pioneering advances in voice and video conferencing.
  • E. John Boettiger
    John Boettiger was an American journalist and newspaper publisher best known as the second husband of Anna Roosevelt, daughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • 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_69ca82b50c708190863f661d438e68df completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb40482200819086c639f64c01fbb5 completed March 31, 2026, 3:32 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d05bd623b88190aeecaa70f92e5c3c completed April 4, 2026, 12:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d05d2e27a081909497f48f3b93b1fe completed April 4, 2026, 12:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d05df1a0888190a2bdc48a159b865e completed April 4, 2026, 12:40 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:27 p.m.