Triple

T8435978
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Night Trap E199223 entity
Predicate writer P1360 FINISHED
Object Terry McDonell
Terry McDonell is an American editor and writer best known for his leadership roles at magazines such as Sports Illustrated, Esquire, and Outside, as well as for his memoir "The Accidental Life."
E748055 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: Terry McDonell | Statement: [Night Trap, writer, Terry McDonell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Terry McDonell
Context triple: [Night Trap, writer, Terry McDonell]
  • A. Terry Moran
    Terry Moran is an American journalist and television correspondent best known for his work with ABC News, including roles as a White House correspondent and co-anchor of "Nightline."
  • B. Terry McAulay
    Terry McAulay is a former National Football League official who served as a referee in multiple Super Bowls and later became a rules analyst for television broadcasts.
  • C. Terry Tumey
    Terry Tumey is an American college athletics administrator and former UCLA football player and NFL defensive lineman who serves as the athletic director at Fresno State.
  • D. Terry Cummings
    Terry Cummings is a former American professional basketball player, primarily a high-scoring power forward in the NBA during the 1980s and early 1990s.
  • E. Bobby McDermott
    Bobby McDermott was an American professional basketball guard widely regarded as one of the greatest players of the pre-NBA era, known for his prolific scoring and multiple championships in the 1930s and 1940s.
  • 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: Terry McDonell
Triple: [Night Trap, writer, Terry McDonell]
Generated description
Terry McDonell is an American editor and writer best known for his leadership roles at magazines such as Sports Illustrated, Esquire, and Outside, as well as for his memoir "The Accidental Life."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Terry McDonell
Target entity description: Terry McDonell is an American editor and writer best known for his leadership roles at magazines such as Sports Illustrated, Esquire, and Outside, as well as for his memoir "The Accidental Life."
  • A. Terry Moran
    Terry Moran is an American journalist and television correspondent best known for his work with ABC News, including roles as a White House correspondent and co-anchor of "Nightline."
  • B. Terry McAulay
    Terry McAulay is a former National Football League official who served as a referee in multiple Super Bowls and later became a rules analyst for television broadcasts.
  • C. Terry Tumey
    Terry Tumey is an American college athletics administrator and former UCLA football player and NFL defensive lineman who serves as the athletic director at Fresno State.
  • D. Terry Cummings
    Terry Cummings is a former American professional basketball player, primarily a high-scoring power forward in the NBA during the 1980s and early 1990s.
  • E. Bobby McDermott
    Bobby McDermott was an American professional basketball guard widely regarded as one of the greatest players of the pre-NBA era, known for his prolific scoring and multiple championships in the 1930s and 1940s.
  • 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_69ca8314cd6c8190a6b8c2a1096e18f3 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe132a6f881908f990089792fccc4 completed March 31, 2026, 2:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cebb52978481909c60e43abd496746 completed April 2, 2026, 6:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cebc9d4ca88190942c333806181b55 completed April 2, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cec0a9c39c8190a7bcecc6927b98f0 completed April 2, 2026, 7:16 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:08 p.m.