Triple

T988682
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject National Academy of Sciences Public Welfare Medal E21336 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Norman Cousins
Norman Cousins was an American political journalist, peace advocate, and author known for his influential writings on nuclear disarmament and the healing power of positive emotions.
E117568 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: Norman Cousins | Statement: [National Academy of Sciences Public Welfare Medal, notableRecipient, Norman Cousins]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norman Cousins
Context triple: [National Academy of Sciences Public Welfare Medal, notableRecipient, Norman Cousins]
  • A. Abram Hoffer
    Abram Hoffer was a Canadian psychiatrist and researcher known for pioneering orthomolecular psychiatry, particularly the use of high-dose vitamins in the treatment of mental illness such as schizophrenia.
  • B. Andrew Heiskell
    Andrew Heiskell was an American publishing executive and philanthropist best known as a longtime leader of Time Inc. and a prominent figure in New York’s cultural and civic life.
  • C. George Engel
    George Engel was a German-American labor activist and anarchist who was executed following the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago.
  • D. Alfred A. Cohn
    Alfred A. Cohn was an American screenwriter and title writer of the silent and early sound film era, best known for his work on influential films such as The Jazz Singer.
  • E. Jerome Kellogg
    Jerome Kellogg was a physicist known as a notable student of Nobel laureate Isidor Isaac Rabi.
  • 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: Norman Cousins
Triple: [National Academy of Sciences Public Welfare Medal, notableRecipient, Norman Cousins]
Generated description
Norman Cousins was an American political journalist, peace advocate, and author known for his influential writings on nuclear disarmament and the healing power of positive emotions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norman Cousins
Target entity description: Norman Cousins was an American political journalist, peace advocate, and author known for his influential writings on nuclear disarmament and the healing power of positive emotions.
  • A. Abram Hoffer
    Abram Hoffer was a Canadian psychiatrist and researcher known for pioneering orthomolecular psychiatry, particularly the use of high-dose vitamins in the treatment of mental illness such as schizophrenia.
  • B. Andrew Heiskell
    Andrew Heiskell was an American publishing executive and philanthropist best known as a longtime leader of Time Inc. and a prominent figure in New York’s cultural and civic life.
  • C. George Engel
    George Engel was a German-American labor activist and anarchist who was executed following the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago.
  • D. Alfred A. Cohn
    Alfred A. Cohn was an American screenwriter and title writer of the silent and early sound film era, best known for his work on influential films such as The Jazz Singer.
  • E. Jerome Kellogg
    Jerome Kellogg was a physicist known as a notable student of Nobel laureate Isidor Isaac Rabi.
  • 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_69a493c383dc8190a03257f22d4b4183 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b4a89a58819081a24b5b0a12f122 completed March 1, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac258d9f4c8190b285455410b30575 completed March 7, 2026, 1:18 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac267e4fa08190895fa6809d0decb8 completed March 7, 2026, 1:22 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac271c8ad081909c1f1629e0793c40 completed March 7, 2026, 1:24 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:41 p.m.