Triple

T9303553
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Emmanuel Saez E223825 entity
Predicate doctoralAdvisor P167 FINISHED
Object James Poterba
James Poterba is an American economist known for his work on public finance, taxation, and retirement saving, and for serving as president of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
E790053 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 Poterba | Statement: [Emmanuel Saez, doctoralAdvisor, James Poterba]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Poterba
Context triple: [Emmanuel Saez, doctoralAdvisor, James Poterba]
  • A. James Honaker
    James Honaker is a political scientist and statistician known for his work on methods for handling missing data and for coauthoring influential research with Gary King.
  • B. Thomas J. Greytak
    Thomas J. Greytak is an American physicist known for his work in low-temperature physics and his long association with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • C. Neil Buchanan
    Neil Buchanan is a British television presenter, artist, and musician best known for hosting the children's art show "Art Attack."
  • D. Paul N. McCloskey Jr.
    Paul N. “Pete” McCloskey Jr. is a former Republican U.S. Congressman from California known for his outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War and his role as a reform-minded critic of executive power and intelligence abuses.
  • E. Douglas Davenport
    Douglas Davenport is a brilliant but morally ambiguous scientist and the primary antagonist-turned-ally in the Disney XD series "Lab Rats."
  • 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 Poterba
Triple: [Emmanuel Saez, doctoralAdvisor, James Poterba]
Generated description
James Poterba is an American economist known for his work on public finance, taxation, and retirement saving, and for serving as president of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Poterba
Target entity description: James Poterba is an American economist known for his work on public finance, taxation, and retirement saving, and for serving as president of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
  • A. James Honaker
    James Honaker is a political scientist and statistician known for his work on methods for handling missing data and for coauthoring influential research with Gary King.
  • B. Thomas J. Greytak
    Thomas J. Greytak is an American physicist known for his work in low-temperature physics and his long association with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • C. Neil Buchanan
    Neil Buchanan is a British television presenter, artist, and musician best known for hosting the children's art show "Art Attack."
  • D. Paul N. McCloskey Jr.
    Paul N. “Pete” McCloskey Jr. is a former Republican U.S. Congressman from California known for his outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War and his role as a reform-minded critic of executive power and intelligence abuses.
  • E. Douglas Davenport
    Douglas Davenport is a brilliant but morally ambiguous scientist and the primary antagonist-turned-ally in the Disney XD series "Lab Rats."
  • 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_69ca8424d0f08190831e2e93c6533aeb completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd08d4c5e48190aa8c744a158e5fbb completed April 1, 2026, noon
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d0b26ae3c881909e88f0253e73f0ea completed April 4, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d0b3ba0bd88190873816ec7e7929a7 completed April 4, 2026, 6:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d0b49ec4c88190a48909e7022d7e60 completed April 4, 2026, 6:50 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:36 p.m.