Triple

T845904
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Phillips Collection E18273 entity
Predicate hasWorkBy P12366 FINISHED
Object Paul McCarthy
Paul McCarthy is an American contemporary artist known for his provocative, often grotesque performance, video, and installation works that critique consumerism, popular culture, and the art world.
E111913 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 McCarthy | Statement: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Paul McCarthy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul McCarthy
Context triple: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Paul McCarthy]
  • A. Mike Kelley
    Mike Kelley was an influential American contemporary artist known for his provocative multimedia works that explored memory, popular culture, and the darker undercurrents of American society.
  • B. Tavares Strachan
    Tavares Strachan is a Bahamian-born conceptual artist known for his ambitious, research-driven projects that explore themes of identity, history, and the politics of visibility.
  • C. Bruce Nauman
    Bruce Nauman is an American contemporary artist known for his pioneering and often provocative work in sculpture, video, performance, and conceptual art.
  • D. Sean Scully
    Sean Scully is an Irish-born American painter renowned for his large-scale abstract works featuring bold, layered stripes and blocks of color.
  • E. Mark Bradford
    Mark Bradford is an American contemporary artist renowned for his large-scale abstract mixed-media collages and installations that explore race, class, and urban experience.
  • 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 McCarthy
Triple: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Paul McCarthy]
Generated description
Paul McCarthy is an American contemporary artist known for his provocative, often grotesque performance, video, and installation works that critique consumerism, popular culture, and the art world.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul McCarthy
Target entity description: Paul McCarthy is an American contemporary artist known for his provocative, often grotesque performance, video, and installation works that critique consumerism, popular culture, and the art world.
  • A. Mike Kelley
    Mike Kelley was an influential American contemporary artist known for his provocative multimedia works that explored memory, popular culture, and the darker undercurrents of American society.
  • B. Tavares Strachan
    Tavares Strachan is a Bahamian-born conceptual artist known for his ambitious, research-driven projects that explore themes of identity, history, and the politics of visibility.
  • C. Bruce Nauman
    Bruce Nauman is an American contemporary artist known for his pioneering and often provocative work in sculpture, video, performance, and conceptual art.
  • D. Sean Scully
    Sean Scully is an Irish-born American painter renowned for his large-scale abstract works featuring bold, layered stripes and blocks of color.
  • E. Mark Bradford
    Mark Bradford is an American contemporary artist renowned for his large-scale abstract mixed-media collages and installations that explore race, class, and urban experience.
  • 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_69a4938b04208190b82e1df6b572c548 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ac0a91e48190b4349ae8bb67fd90 completed March 1, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a93398a6948190981e932178aee6b9 completed March 5, 2026, 7:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a93d2162ac81908830459d0c937093 completed March 5, 2026, 8:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a95d2e3d908190afa636dcde6db627 completed March 5, 2026, 10:38 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.