Triple

T8177317
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shields E190968 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Paul Shields
Paul Shields is a former American football running back who played in the NFL, primarily for the Indianapolis Colts, in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
 E720341 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: Paul Shields | Statement: [Shields, hasNotableBearer, Paul Shields]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Paul Shields
Context triple: [Shields, hasNotableBearer, Paul Shields]
  • A. Sam Shields
    Sam Shields is a former American football cornerback best known for his NFL career with the Green Bay Packers, with whom he won Super Bowl XLV.
  • B. Pat Hughes
    Pat Hughes is a longtime American sportscaster best known as the radio play-by-play voice of Major League Baseball’s Chicago Cubs.
  • C. Ian Shaw
    Ian Shaw is a British actor and writer, known for his stage and screen work and for being the son of acclaimed actor Robert Shaw.
  • D. Paul Qualley
    Paul Qualley is a former American model and rancher best known as the ex-husband of actress Andie MacDowell and the father of actress Margaret Qualley.
  • E. Lee Richards
    Lee Richards is a guitarist best known for being an early member of the American rock band Godsmack.
  • 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: Paul Shields
Triple: [Shields, hasNotableBearer, Paul Shields]
Generated description
Paul Shields is a former American football running back who played in the NFL, primarily for the Indianapolis Colts, in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Paul Shields
Target entity description: Paul Shields is a former American football running back who played in the NFL, primarily for the Indianapolis Colts, in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
  • A. Sam Shields
    Sam Shields is a former American football cornerback best known for his NFL career with the Green Bay Packers, with whom he won Super Bowl XLV.
  • B. Pat Hughes
    Pat Hughes is a longtime American sportscaster best known as the radio play-by-play voice of Major League Baseball’s Chicago Cubs.
  • C. Ian Shaw
    Ian Shaw is a British actor and writer, known for his stage and screen work and for being the son of acclaimed actor Robert Shaw.
  • D. Paul Qualley
    Paul Qualley is a former American model and rancher best known as the ex-husband of actress Andie MacDowell and the father of actress Margaret Qualley.
  • E. Lee Richards
    Lee Richards is a guitarist best known for being an early member of the American rock band Godsmack.
  • 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_69ca82c1c0a08190bf8692b4d91a03ca completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb4aba0dd88190828080d0d89612eb completed March 31, 2026, 4:16 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cd347e2d2c81909b3c8d0f922e7c37 completed April 1, 2026, 3:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cd36ef47e88190ae96ea2459552247 completed April 1, 2026, 3:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cd4e9d362481908283d58b03c7ef9b completed April 1, 2026, 4:58 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:40 p.m.