Triple

T8547091
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Verso Books E202354 entity
Predicate notableAuthorPublished P7039 FINISHED
Object Mike Davis
Mike Davis was an American Marxist urban theorist, historian, and writer best known for his incisive analyses of cities, capitalism, and environmental catastrophe.
E742210 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: Mike Davis | Statement: [Verso Books, notableAuthorPublished, Mike Davis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mike Davis
Context triple: [Verso Books, notableAuthorPublished, Mike Davis]
  • A. Mike Davis
    Mike Davis is an American college basketball coach best known for succeeding Bob Knight at Indiana University and leading the Hoosiers to the 2002 NCAA championship game.
  • B. Michael Baca
    Michael Baca is an American presidential elector known for his role in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Colorado Department of State v. Baca, which addressed whether states can penalize or replace “faithless electors” in the Electoral College.
  • C. Mark di Suvero
    Mark di Suvero is an American abstract sculptor renowned for his monumental, industrial steel constructions installed in prominent outdoor sculpture parks and public spaces worldwide.
  • D. Philip Cook
    Philip Cook was a 19th-century American politician and Confederate officer from Georgia who served in the U.S. Congress and later as Georgia’s Secretary of State.
  • E. Howard Shoup
    Howard Shoup was an American costume designer known for his prolific work in Hollywood films from the 1940s through the 1960s and for receiving multiple Academy Award nominations.
  • 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: Mike Davis
Triple: [Verso Books, notableAuthorPublished, Mike Davis]
Generated description
Mike Davis was an American Marxist urban theorist, historian, and writer best known for his incisive analyses of cities, capitalism, and environmental catastrophe.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mike Davis
Target entity description: Mike Davis was an American Marxist urban theorist, historian, and writer best known for his incisive analyses of cities, capitalism, and environmental catastrophe.
  • A. Mike Davis
    Mike Davis is an American college basketball coach best known for succeeding Bob Knight at Indiana University and leading the Hoosiers to the 2002 NCAA championship game.
  • B. Michael Baca
    Michael Baca is an American presidential elector known for his role in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Colorado Department of State v. Baca, which addressed whether states can penalize or replace “faithless electors” in the Electoral College.
  • C. Mark di Suvero
    Mark di Suvero is an American abstract sculptor renowned for his monumental, industrial steel constructions installed in prominent outdoor sculpture parks and public spaces worldwide.
  • D. Philip Cook
    Philip Cook was a 19th-century American politician and Confederate officer from Georgia who served in the U.S. Congress and later as Georgia’s Secretary of State.
  • E. Howard Shoup
    Howard Shoup was an American costume designer known for his prolific work in Hollywood films from the 1940s through the 1960s and for receiving multiple Academy Award nominations.
  • 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_69ca832461e88190a654c5e44e233aa8 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe7511f8c819083d69fb6a0b55801 completed March 31, 2026, 3:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce6dbbb12c819085d1abe289fd1f22 completed April 2, 2026, 1:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce71d9eac481908610589efa9f9ddd completed April 2, 2026, 1:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce75b832248190b7273605cf5ff67a completed April 2, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:19 p.m.