Triple

T8493869
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject C. L. Moore E201045 entity
Predicate notableCharacterCreated P9708 FINISHED
Object Northwest Smith
Northwest Smith is a classic pulp science fiction antihero, a hard-bitten spacefaring outlaw featured in C. L. Moore’s influential 1930s stories.
 E737185 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: Northwest Smith | Statement: [C. L. Moore, notableCharacterCreated, Northwest Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Northwest Smith
Context triple: [C. L. Moore, notableCharacterCreated, Northwest Smith]
  • A. Tilghman
    Tilghman is a masculine given name of English origin that has been borne by various notable American figures, including politicians and military officers.
  • B. Brooks West
    Brooks West was an American actor and producer best known for his work in film and radio and for being married to actress Eve Arden.
  • C. Ebersole
    Ebersole is a surname most notably associated with American actress and singer Christine Ebersole.
  • D. Knowland
    Knowland is a surname most notably associated with William F. Knowland, a prominent mid-20th-century American politician and newspaper publisher.
  • E. Ogden Rood
    Ogden Rood was a 19th-century American physicist and color theorist whose work on color perception and optical mixing significantly shaped modern art movements.
  • 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: Northwest Smith
Triple: [C. L. Moore, notableCharacterCreated, Northwest Smith]
Generated description
Northwest Smith is a classic pulp science fiction antihero, a hard-bitten spacefaring outlaw featured in C. L. Moore’s influential 1930s stories.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Northwest Smith
Target entity description: Northwest Smith is a classic pulp science fiction antihero, a hard-bitten spacefaring outlaw featured in C. L. Moore’s influential 1930s stories.
  • A. Tilghman
    Tilghman is a masculine given name of English origin that has been borne by various notable American figures, including politicians and military officers.
  • B. Brooks West
    Brooks West was an American actor and producer best known for his work in film and radio and for being married to actress Eve Arden.
  • C. Ebersole
    Ebersole is a surname most notably associated with American actress and singer Christine Ebersole.
  • D. Knowland
    Knowland is a surname most notably associated with William F. Knowland, a prominent mid-20th-century American politician and newspaper publisher.
  • E. Ogden Rood
    Ogden Rood was a 19th-century American physicist and color theorist whose work on color perception and optical mixing significantly shaped modern art movements.
  • 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_69ca831ee390819095fae73400bbfafc completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe579b7088190b297b04527e36a2b completed March 31, 2026, 3:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce3a5c260c8190bc7012a04363d260 completed April 2, 2026, 9:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce3ca3be5c8190844e54805e9acaeb completed April 2, 2026, 9:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce3d4e92e88190a90ba1567c569b00 completed April 2, 2026, 9:56 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:13 p.m.