Triple
T9747722
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Samuel Sagan |
E236357
|
entity |
| Predicate | relative |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Nicholas Sagan |
E44835
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Nicholas Sagan | Statement: [Samuel Sagan, relative, Nicholas Sagan]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicholas Sagan Context triple: [Samuel Sagan, relative, Nicholas Sagan]
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A.
Nicholas Sagan
chosen
Nicholas Sagan is the son of science communicator Ann Druyan and famed astronomer Carl Sagan.
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B.
Samuel Sagan
Samuel Sagan is an individual known primarily in relation to his brother, Nicholas Sagan.
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C.
Dorion Sagan
Dorion Sagan is an American science writer and essayist known for his works on evolution, ecology, and complexity, and for coauthoring influential books with his mother, biologist Lynn Margulis.
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D.
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
Malcolm Scott Carpenter was an American astronaut, aquanaut, and test pilot best known as one of NASA’s original Mercury Seven astronauts and the second American to orbit the Earth.
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E.
Alan H. Nichols
Alan H. Nichols is an American legal figure best known for his role as a named party in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Lau v. Nichols concerning the rights of non-English-speaking students in public schools.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca84d3e24481908a476e2231123cf9 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cd9f677830819096d388b9c798ecd5 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 10:42 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d1bcd2e08c8190808b58fdabe0c9d3 |
completed | April 5, 2026, 1:37 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:23 p.m.