Triple

T864390
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cause Célèbre E18668 entity
Predicate firstPublisher P7323 FINISHED
Object Samuel French
Samuel French is a prominent theatrical publishing and licensing company known for distributing plays and performance rights to theaters worldwide.
E101236 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: Samuel French | Statement: [Cause Célèbre, firstPublisher, Samuel French]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel French
Context triple: [Cause Célèbre, firstPublisher, Samuel French]
  • A. Thomas McCarter
    Thomas McCarter was an American businessman and utility executive best known as the founder of the energy company Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG).
  • B. Albert Hackett
    Albert Hackett was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for co-writing classic films such as "The Thin Man" and "It's a Wonderful Life," often in collaboration with his wife Frances Goodrich.
  • C. George Weil
    George Weil was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and is noted for being the operator who withdrew the control rod to initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1.
  • D. John McShain
    John McShain was an American building contractor known for constructing major U.S. landmarks, including the Pentagon and significant parts of Washington, D.C.'s federal architecture.
  • E. Moss Hart
    Moss Hart was a prominent American playwright and director best known for his Broadway collaborations with George S. Kaufman and his influential contributions to mid-20th-century theater and film.
  • 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: Samuel French
Triple: [Cause Célèbre, firstPublisher, Samuel French]
Generated description
Samuel French is a prominent theatrical publishing and licensing company known for distributing plays and performance rights to theaters worldwide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel French
Target entity description: Samuel French is a prominent theatrical publishing and licensing company known for distributing plays and performance rights to theaters worldwide.
  • A. Thomas McCarter
    Thomas McCarter was an American businessman and utility executive best known as the founder of the energy company Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG).
  • B. Albert Hackett
    Albert Hackett was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for co-writing classic films such as "The Thin Man" and "It's a Wonderful Life," often in collaboration with his wife Frances Goodrich.
  • C. George Weil
    George Weil was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and is noted for being the operator who withdrew the control rod to initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1.
  • D. John McShain
    John McShain was an American building contractor known for constructing major U.S. landmarks, including the Pentagon and significant parts of Washington, D.C.'s federal architecture.
  • E. Moss Hart
    Moss Hart was a prominent American playwright and director best known for his Broadway collaborations with George S. Kaufman and his influential contributions to mid-20th-century theater and film.
  • 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_69a4938ce8688190a24bdfef82ba7d21 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ac6956488190a5644cdd5b55684f completed March 1, 2026, 9:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7a3c7999c81908b2f27610c263b7f completed March 4, 2026, 3:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7a5a452f88190ad560d33ab42d71f completed March 4, 2026, 3:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7a63398f081908b63b4f79aa81f85 completed March 4, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.