Triple

T911360
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sterling Memorial Library E19664 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object John W. Sterling
John W. Sterling was a prominent Yale-educated lawyer and philanthropist whose substantial bequest to Yale University funded major campus buildings, including the Sterling Memorial Library.
 E107525 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: John W. Sterling | Statement: [Sterling Memorial Library, namedAfter, John W. Sterling]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John W. Sterling
Context triple: [Sterling Memorial Library, namedAfter, John W. Sterling]
  • A. Lorne David Michaels
    Lorne David Michaels is a Canadian-American television producer, writer, and comedian best known as the creator and longtime executive producer of the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live.
  • B. Jack Buck
    Jack Buck was a renowned American sportscaster best known for his long tenure as the voice of the St. Louis Cardinals and his iconic calls in Major League Baseball.
  • C. Mike Gartner
    Mike Gartner is a Canadian Hall of Fame right winger renowned as one of the NHL’s most prolific goal scorers, surpassing 700 career goals over a 19-season career.
  • D. Curt Gowdy
    Curt Gowdy was a prominent American sportscaster renowned for his play-by-play coverage of major events across multiple sports on network television from the 1950s through the 1970s.
  • E. Mike Emrick
    Mike "Doc" Emrick is a renowned American sportscaster best known as the longtime play-by-play voice of National Hockey League broadcasts on U.S. television.
  • 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: John W. Sterling
Triple: [Sterling Memorial Library, namedAfter, John W. Sterling]
Generated description
John W. Sterling was a prominent Yale-educated lawyer and philanthropist whose substantial bequest to Yale University funded major campus buildings, including the Sterling Memorial Library.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John W. Sterling
Target entity description: John W. Sterling was a prominent Yale-educated lawyer and philanthropist whose substantial bequest to Yale University funded major campus buildings, including the Sterling Memorial Library.
  • A. Lorne David Michaels
    Lorne David Michaels is a Canadian-American television producer, writer, and comedian best known as the creator and longtime executive producer of the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live.
  • B. Jack Buck
    Jack Buck was a renowned American sportscaster best known for his long tenure as the voice of the St. Louis Cardinals and his iconic calls in Major League Baseball.
  • C. Mike Gartner
    Mike Gartner is a Canadian Hall of Fame right winger renowned as one of the NHL’s most prolific goal scorers, surpassing 700 career goals over a 19-season career.
  • D. Curt Gowdy
    Curt Gowdy was a prominent American sportscaster renowned for his play-by-play coverage of major events across multiple sports on network television from the 1950s through the 1970s.
  • E. Mike Emrick
    Mike "Doc" Emrick is a renowned American sportscaster best known as the longtime play-by-play voice of National Hockey League broadcasts on U.S. television.
  • 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_69a4939f91a08190ba68c2c81eab90fe completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b2de5b008190851852331db41324 completed March 1, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7c73d5bdc8190828cdf9f54e33a46 completed March 4, 2026, 5:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7c8c148708190bfdee5a55ab6d149 completed March 4, 2026, 5:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7ca1e37f4819086cda13a446642e2 completed March 4, 2026, 5:58 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.