Triple

T821045
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Howard Hawks E17746 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Howard
Howard is the given name of the influential American film director, producer, and screenwriter Howard Hawks.
 E114904 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 | Statement: [Howard Hawks, givenName, Howard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Howard
Context triple: [Howard Hawks, givenName, Howard]
  • A. Howard
    Howard is the middle name of Edwin H. Armstrong, the pioneering American electrical engineer and inventor of FM radio.
  • B. Howard
    Howard is a volume series of early U.S. Supreme Court case reports compiled by Benjamin Chew Howard, later incorporated into the official United States Reports.
  • C. Howard
    Howard is a major Chicago Transit Authority rail station that serves as a key northern terminal and transfer point for multiple 'L' lines.
  • D. Johnson
    Johnson is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across politics, arts, sports, and other fields.
  • E. Williams
    Williams is a common English surname borne by numerous notable figures across sports, politics, arts, and entertainment.
  • 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
Triple: [Howard Hawks, givenName, Howard]
Generated description
Howard is the given name of the influential American film director, producer, and screenwriter Howard Hawks.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Howard
Target entity description: Howard is the given name of the influential American film director, producer, and screenwriter Howard Hawks.
  • A. Howard
    Howard is the middle name of Edwin H. Armstrong, the pioneering American electrical engineer and inventor of FM radio.
  • B. Howard
    Howard is a volume series of early U.S. Supreme Court case reports compiled by Benjamin Chew Howard, later incorporated into the official United States Reports.
  • C. Howard
    Howard is a major Chicago Transit Authority rail station that serves as a key northern terminal and transfer point for multiple 'L' lines.
  • D. Johnson
    Johnson is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across politics, arts, sports, and other fields.
  • E. Williams
    Williams is a common English surname borne by numerous notable figures across sports, politics, arts, and entertainment.
  • 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_69a4937bcaac8190a322524ac6f45a5a completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ab7aea38819092a0860ec6e2a033 completed March 1, 2026, 9:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac16f56bc0819094085d61f1f29f70 completed March 7, 2026, 12:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac1841a6188190bca3ab98eb169d47 completed March 7, 2026, 12:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac18afee148190ac7431327588c31b completed March 7, 2026, 12:23 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.