Triple
T9698540
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Long Beach State Beach men's volleyball team |
E234714
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableAlumnus |
P304
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Paul Lotman
Paul Lotman is an American former professional volleyball player and Olympic athlete known for his successful international club career and contributions to the U.S. men's national team.
|
E814525
|
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: Paul Lotman | Statement: [Long Beach State Beach men's volleyball team, notableAlumnus, Paul Lotman]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Lotman Context triple: [Long Beach State Beach men's volleyball team, notableAlumnus, Paul Lotman]
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A.
Yuri Lotman
Yuri Lotman was a prominent Russian-Estonian literary scholar and semiotician, best known as a founder of the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School and for his influential work on the semiotics of culture and literature.
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B.
Paul Körner
Paul Körner was a high-ranking Nazi official and close associate of Hermann Göring who played a key role in the economic and industrial mobilization of the Third Reich.
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C.
Jean Starobinski
Jean Starobinski was a prominent Swiss literary critic, historian of ideas, and physician known for his influential studies of Enlightenment thought and the history of melancholy.
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D.
Paul Kosok
Paul Kosok was an American historian and archaeologist best known for pioneering the study of Peru’s Nazca Lines through early aerial surveys in the 1930s.
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E.
Lev Shestov
Lev Shestov was a Russian existentialist philosopher known for his critiques of rationalism and his emphasis on faith, freedom, and the absurd in human existence.
- 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: Paul Lotman Triple: [Long Beach State Beach men's volleyball team, notableAlumnus, Paul Lotman]
Generated description
Paul Lotman is an American former professional volleyball player and Olympic athlete known for his successful international club career and contributions to the U.S. men's national team.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Lotman Target entity description: Paul Lotman is an American former professional volleyball player and Olympic athlete known for his successful international club career and contributions to the U.S. men's national team.
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A.
Yuri Lotman
Yuri Lotman was a prominent Russian-Estonian literary scholar and semiotician, best known as a founder of the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School and for his influential work on the semiotics of culture and literature.
-
B.
Paul Körner
Paul Körner was a high-ranking Nazi official and close associate of Hermann Göring who played a key role in the economic and industrial mobilization of the Third Reich.
-
C.
Jean Starobinski
Jean Starobinski was a prominent Swiss literary critic, historian of ideas, and physician known for his influential studies of Enlightenment thought and the history of melancholy.
-
D.
Paul Kosok
Paul Kosok was an American historian and archaeologist best known for pioneering the study of Peru’s Nazca Lines through early aerial surveys in the 1930s.
-
E.
Lev Shestov
Lev Shestov was a Russian existentialist philosopher known for his critiques of rationalism and his emphasis on faith, freedom, and the absurd in human existence.
- 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_69ca84cb580c8190a7e5f4b3bcdaf2a4 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cd9d3d425c8190b652d84186b5ce9f |
completed | April 1, 2026, 10:33 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d19125d3cc819082b3736d1b4ba802 |
completed | April 4, 2026, 10:31 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69d192f37e54819099d316ce44de2c81 |
completed | April 4, 2026, 10:38 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69d1933ffc3481909395c9efb63875bb |
completed | April 4, 2026, 10:40 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:18 p.m.