Triple

T9480275
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kagan E228617 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Donald Kagan
Donald Kagan was a prominent American historian and classicist best known for his influential works on ancient Greek history, particularly the Peloponnesian War.
E802457 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: Donald Kagan | Statement: [Kagan, hasNotableBearer, Donald Kagan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald Kagan
Context triple: [Kagan, hasNotableBearer, Donald Kagan]
  • A. Kenneth H. Jackson
    Kenneth H. Jackson was a prominent 20th-century British linguist and historian renowned for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Celtic languages.
  • B. Stanley G. Payne
    Stanley G. Payne is an American historian renowned for his influential scholarship on fascism, Spanish history, and European authoritarian regimes in the 20th century.
  • C. Jeremy Iggers
    Jeremy Iggers is an American journalist and food critic known for his work at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis and his influential writing on ethics in restaurant reviewing.
  • D. E. H. Carr
    E. H. Carr was a British historian, diplomat, and international relations theorist best known for his multi-volume history of the Soviet Union and his influential work "The Twenty Years' Crisis."
  • E. David T. Wilentz
    David T. Wilentz was a prominent American lawyer and politician best known as the New Jersey Attorney General who prosecuted the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
  • 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: Donald Kagan
Triple: [Kagan, hasNotableBearer, Donald Kagan]
Generated description
Donald Kagan was a prominent American historian and classicist best known for his influential works on ancient Greek history, particularly the Peloponnesian War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald Kagan
Target entity description: Donald Kagan was a prominent American historian and classicist best known for his influential works on ancient Greek history, particularly the Peloponnesian War.
  • A. Kenneth H. Jackson
    Kenneth H. Jackson was a prominent 20th-century British linguist and historian renowned for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Celtic languages.
  • B. Stanley G. Payne
    Stanley G. Payne is an American historian renowned for his influential scholarship on fascism, Spanish history, and European authoritarian regimes in the 20th century.
  • C. Jeremy Iggers
    Jeremy Iggers is an American journalist and food critic known for his work at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis and his influential writing on ethics in restaurant reviewing.
  • D. E. H. Carr
    E. H. Carr was a British historian, diplomat, and international relations theorist best known for his multi-volume history of the Soviet Union and his influential work "The Twenty Years' Crisis."
  • E. David T. Wilentz
    David T. Wilentz was a prominent American lawyer and politician best known as the New Jersey Attorney General who prosecuted the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
  • 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_69ca84730a5081908de282651019bf2f completed March 30, 2026, 2:10 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd8016813881908dafc026779c89c4 completed April 1, 2026, 8:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d12cf7526c8190b96693bdc13743d5 completed April 4, 2026, 3:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d12ed9240c8190bd206a0d2263e249 completed April 4, 2026, 3:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d12f870d2881909b0b50adfd2ba13b completed April 4, 2026, 3:34 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:54 p.m.