Triple

T9751965
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wallace Shawn E236461 entity
Predicate parent P120 FINISHED
Object William Shawn
William Shawn was a highly influential American editor best known for his long tenure leading The New Yorker magazine in the mid-20th century.
E818112 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: William Shawn | Statement: [Wallace Shawn, parent, William Shawn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Shawn
Context triple: [Wallace Shawn, parent, William Shawn]
  • A. William Barrett
    William Barrett is a name shared by several notable individuals, including an American philosopher known for his work on existentialism and a British politician who served as a Member of Parliament.
  • B. Murray Kempton
    Murray Kempton was an American journalist, columnist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer known for his incisive political commentary and elegant prose.
  • C. Mortimer Adler
    Mortimer Adler was an American philosopher, educator, and popularizer of the Great Books movement, known for his work on liberal education and efforts to make philosophy accessible to the general public.
  • D. Harvey Mansfield
    Harvey Mansfield is an American political philosopher and Harvard professor known for his work on classical political thought, Machiavelli, and the theory of executive power.
  • E. Joe Franklin
    Joe Franklin was an American radio and television host famed as a pioneer of the talk show format and for his long-running New York City program.
  • 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: William Shawn
Triple: [Wallace Shawn, parent, William Shawn]
Generated description
William Shawn was a highly influential American editor best known for his long tenure leading The New Yorker magazine in the mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Shawn
Target entity description: William Shawn was a highly influential American editor best known for his long tenure leading The New Yorker magazine in the mid-20th century.
  • A. William Barrett
    William Barrett is a name shared by several notable individuals, including an American philosopher known for his work on existentialism and a British politician who served as a Member of Parliament.
  • B. Murray Kempton
    Murray Kempton was an American journalist, columnist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer known for his incisive political commentary and elegant prose.
  • C. Mortimer Adler
    Mortimer Adler was an American philosopher, educator, and popularizer of the Great Books movement, known for his work on liberal education and efforts to make philosophy accessible to the general public.
  • D. Harvey Mansfield
    Harvey Mansfield is an American political philosopher and Harvard professor known for his work on classical political thought, Machiavelli, and the theory of executive power.
  • E. Joe Franklin
    Joe Franklin was an American radio and television host famed as a pioneer of the talk show format and for his long-running New York City program.
  • 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_69ca84d4eddc8190996fec1417d2bae8 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9facd5b881909f0569b23f308815 completed April 1, 2026, 10:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1b020829481908456e7977c5f9adb completed April 5, 2026, 12:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1b0dde93881908fcec28de9cfa99d completed April 5, 2026, 12:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1b1bbe6108190af17b75f79c0f465 completed April 5, 2026, 12:50 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:24 p.m.