Triple

T952752
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harper & Row E20557 entity
Predicate notableAuthorPublished P7039 FINISHED
Object E. B. White
E. B. White was an American writer and essayist best known for his contributions to The New Yorker and for classic children's books such as "Charlotte's Web" and "Stuart Little."
E113797 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: E. B. White | Statement: [Harper & Row, notableAuthorPublished, E. B. White]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: E. B. White
Context triple: [Harper & Row, notableAuthorPublished, E. B. White]
  • A. Thornton Wilder
    Thornton Wilder was an American playwright and novelist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Our Town" and his exploration of universal human themes.
  • B. J. D. Salinger
    J. D. Salinger was an American author best known for his influential novel "The Catcher in the Rye," which became a defining work of 20th-century literature and adolescent alienation.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Thomas Wolfe
    Thomas Wolfe was a major early 20th-century American novelist best known for his sprawling, autobiographical works such as "Look Homeward, Angel."
  • E. George Herrmann
    George Herrmann was a distinguished engineer and applied mechanician recognized for his influential contributions to the field, as evidenced by his receipt of the prestigious Timoshenko Medal.
  • 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: E. B. White
Triple: [Harper & Row, notableAuthorPublished, E. B. White]
Generated description
E. B. White was an American writer and essayist best known for his contributions to The New Yorker and for classic children's books such as "Charlotte's Web" and "Stuart Little."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: E. B. White
Target entity description: E. B. White was an American writer and essayist best known for his contributions to The New Yorker and for classic children's books such as "Charlotte's Web" and "Stuart Little."
  • A. Thornton Wilder
    Thornton Wilder was an American playwright and novelist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Our Town" and his exploration of universal human themes.
  • B. J. D. Salinger
    J. D. Salinger was an American author best known for his influential novel "The Catcher in the Rye," which became a defining work of 20th-century literature and adolescent alienation.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Thomas Wolfe
    Thomas Wolfe was a major early 20th-century American novelist best known for his sprawling, autobiographical works such as "Look Homeward, Angel."
  • E. George Herrmann
    George Herrmann was a distinguished engineer and applied mechanician recognized for his influential contributions to the field, as evidenced by his receipt of the prestigious Timoshenko Medal.
  • 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_69a493b0f2fc81908cd227480a5356a1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b3d8f2e0819097554a301f8aa70f completed March 1, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac119fd16c81908c43b6d3dc6d53b6 completed March 7, 2026, 11:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac12248f1c81908b9bd511e4363130 completed March 7, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac12c786ac81909938e043a1e2e8b9 completed March 7, 2026, 11:57 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.