Triple
T9108535
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Catawba language |
E218536
|
entity |
| Predicate | documentedBy |
P4310
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
James H. Merrell
James H. Merrell is an American historian and ethnohistorian known for his influential scholarship on Native American history and cultures in colonial North America.
|
E778730
|
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: James H. Merrell | Statement: [Catawba language, documentedBy, James H. Merrell]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James H. Merrell Context triple: [Catawba language, documentedBy, James H. Merrell]
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A.
Jeff Pearlman
Jeff Pearlman is an American sportswriter and author best known for his deeply reported, often controversial biographies of major sports figures and teams, including the Los Angeles Lakers dynasty that inspired the series "Winning Time."
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B.
Russell Patterson
Russell Patterson is an American conductor best known for his leadership roles with major U.S. orchestras, including serving as music director of the Kansas City Symphony.
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C.
Stephen F. Hale
Stephen F. Hale was a 19th-century American politician and Confederate officer from Alabama, after whom Hale County is named.
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D.
T. R. Devlin
T. R. Devlin is the U.S. government agent portrayed by Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1946 thriller "Notorious."
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E.
Douglas Roberts
Douglas Roberts is known primarily as one of the sons of American cable television pioneer and Comcast co-founder Ralph J. Roberts.
- 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: James H. Merrell Triple: [Catawba language, documentedBy, James H. Merrell]
Generated description
James H. Merrell is an American historian and ethnohistorian known for his influential scholarship on Native American history and cultures in colonial North America.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James H. Merrell Target entity description: James H. Merrell is an American historian and ethnohistorian known for his influential scholarship on Native American history and cultures in colonial North America.
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A.
Jeff Pearlman
Jeff Pearlman is an American sportswriter and author best known for his deeply reported, often controversial biographies of major sports figures and teams, including the Los Angeles Lakers dynasty that inspired the series "Winning Time."
-
B.
Russell Patterson
Russell Patterson is an American conductor best known for his leadership roles with major U.S. orchestras, including serving as music director of the Kansas City Symphony.
-
C.
Stephen F. Hale
Stephen F. Hale was a 19th-century American politician and Confederate officer from Alabama, after whom Hale County is named.
-
D.
T. R. Devlin
T. R. Devlin is the U.S. government agent portrayed by Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1946 thriller "Notorious."
-
E.
Douglas Roberts
Douglas Roberts is known primarily as one of the sons of American cable television pioneer and Comcast co-founder Ralph J. Roberts.
- 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_69ca83db7448819090d0a5de842ef2ac |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cca57543448190829853c31e05dd8c |
completed | April 1, 2026, 4:56 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d03038dba48190991cb76576349bc3 |
completed | April 3, 2026, 9:25 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69d031a55a88819090cea52b192e9f55 |
completed | April 3, 2026, 9:31 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69d03252748c8190bd362f205a6fc20a |
completed | April 3, 2026, 9:34 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:16 p.m.