Triple
T866057
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | DC Comics |
E18704
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedBy |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson was an American pulp writer and comic book pioneer who created the company that would evolve into DC Comics, helping to launch the modern comic book industry.
|
E105600
|
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: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson | Statement: [DC Comics, foundedBy, Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson Context triple: [DC Comics, foundedBy, Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson]
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A.
George Merrill
George Merrill is an American songwriter best known for co-writing Whitney Houston’s hit songs “How Will I Know” and “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me).”
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B.
Maxwell Perkins
Maxwell Perkins was a legendary American book editor renowned for discovering and nurturing major 20th-century authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe.
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C.
S. R. Hadden
S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
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D.
Bennett Cerf
Bennett Cerf was an American publisher, humorist, and co-founder of the publishing house Random House, known for popularizing many major 20th-century authors.
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E.
Herbert W. Kalmbach
Herbert W. Kalmbach was an American lawyer best known for his role as a fundraiser and legal counsel in Richard Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign and his subsequent involvement in the Watergate scandal.
- 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: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson Triple: [DC Comics, foundedBy, Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson]
Generated description
Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson was an American pulp writer and comic book pioneer who created the company that would evolve into DC Comics, helping to launch the modern comic book industry.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson Target entity description: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson was an American pulp writer and comic book pioneer who created the company that would evolve into DC Comics, helping to launch the modern comic book industry.
-
A.
George Merrill
George Merrill is an American songwriter best known for co-writing Whitney Houston’s hit songs “How Will I Know” and “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me).”
-
B.
Maxwell Perkins
Maxwell Perkins was a legendary American book editor renowned for discovering and nurturing major 20th-century authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe.
-
C.
S. R. Hadden
S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
-
D.
Bennett Cerf
Bennett Cerf was an American publisher, humorist, and co-founder of the publishing house Random House, known for popularizing many major 20th-century authors.
-
E.
Herbert W. Kalmbach
Herbert W. Kalmbach was an American lawyer best known for his role as a fundraiser and legal counsel in Richard Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign and his subsequent involvement in the Watergate scandal.
- 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_69a4ac7cb1888190a46c16b30256451b |
completed | March 1, 2026, 9:15 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a7c018d28881909a3f032e1435970a |
completed | March 4, 2026, 5:16 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a7c21c20688190b7cc593aeb232683 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 5:24 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a7c28c20888190a4d81b45477086bc |
completed | March 4, 2026, 5:26 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.