Triple

T8085455
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alex Cross series E188719 entity
Predicate notableCharacter P1481 FINISHED
Object John Sampson
John Sampson is a tough, loyal Washington, D.C. detective and Alex Cross’s longtime best friend and partner in James Patterson’s crime thriller series.
 E714400 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 Sampson | Statement: [Alex Cross series, notableCharacter, John Sampson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Sampson
Context triple: [Alex Cross series, notableCharacter, John Sampson]
  • A. John Sampson
    John Sampson was a colonial-era North Carolina official and landowner after whom Sampson County was named.
  • B. George Shively
    George Shively was an early 20th-century Negro league outfielder known for his speed, strong defense, and key role on several prominent Black baseball teams.
  • C. Roger Morris
    Roger Morris was an 18th-century English architect associated with the Palladian style, known for designing notable country houses and villas.
  • D. Jack B. Sowards
    Jack B. Sowards was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
  • E. John Sommers
    John Sommers is a central character in Isabel Allende’s novel "Daughter of Fortune," an English physician whose complex relationship with the heroine, Eliza Sommers, shapes much of the story’s emotional and moral landscape.
  • 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 Sampson
Triple: [Alex Cross series, notableCharacter, John Sampson]
Generated description
John Sampson is a tough, loyal Washington, D.C. detective and Alex Cross’s longtime best friend and partner in James Patterson’s crime thriller series.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Sampson
Target entity description: John Sampson is a tough, loyal Washington, D.C. detective and Alex Cross’s longtime best friend and partner in James Patterson’s crime thriller series.
  • A. John Sampson
    John Sampson was a colonial-era North Carolina official and landowner after whom Sampson County was named.
  • B. George Shively
    George Shively was an early 20th-century Negro league outfielder known for his speed, strong defense, and key role on several prominent Black baseball teams.
  • C. Roger Morris
    Roger Morris was an 18th-century English architect associated with the Palladian style, known for designing notable country houses and villas.
  • D. Jack B. Sowards
    Jack B. Sowards was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
  • E. John Sommers
    John Sommers is a central character in Isabel Allende’s novel "Daughter of Fortune," an English physician whose complex relationship with the heroine, Eliza Sommers, shapes much of the story’s emotional and moral landscape.
  • 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_69ca82b662e88190b9323daab8c28a21 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb415f73808190b69db386b447062e completed March 31, 2026, 3:37 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cc93f6eb9c8190b33210621d215d56 completed April 1, 2026, 3:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cc96f2220881909d752d4088bd375a completed April 1, 2026, 3:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cca843fbc0819098d1841fcef25eaa completed April 1, 2026, 5:08 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:29 p.m.