Triple

T9892968
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Personal Matter E181498 entity
Predicate EnglishTranslator P2303 FINISHED
Object John Nathan
John Nathan is an American translator and scholar best known for bringing major works of modern Japanese literature, including those of Kenzaburō Ōe, to English-speaking audiences.
 E828504 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: John Nathan | Statement: [A Personal Matter, EnglishTranslator, John Nathan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Nathan
Context triple: [A Personal Matter, EnglishTranslator, John Nathan]
  • A. John Nathan-Turner
    John Nathan-Turner was a British television producer best known as the longest-serving producer of the classic science fiction series Doctor Who during the 1980s.
  • B. Don Peake
    Don Peake is an American composer and session guitarist best known for his film and television scores, including work on horror and genre movies as well as the series "Knight Rider."
  • C. John Cardy
    John Cardy is a British theoretical physicist renowned for his influential work in statistical mechanics and conformal field theory.
  • D. Richard Martin Lloyd Walters
    Richard Martin Lloyd Walters, better known as Slick Rick, is a pioneering British-American rapper famed for his storytelling style and influential role in the golden age of hip hop.
  • E. Michael Marshall
    Michael Marshall is an Anglican clergyman who served as the Bishop of Woolwich in the Church of England.
  • 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: John Nathan
Triple: [A Personal Matter, EnglishTranslator, John Nathan]
Generated description
John Nathan is an American translator and scholar best known for bringing major works of modern Japanese literature, including those of Kenzaburō Ōe, to English-speaking audiences.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Nathan
Target entity description: John Nathan is an American translator and scholar best known for bringing major works of modern Japanese literature, including those of Kenzaburō Ōe, to English-speaking audiences.
  • A. John Nathan-Turner
    John Nathan-Turner was a British television producer best known as the longest-serving producer of the classic science fiction series Doctor Who during the 1980s.
  • B. Don Peake
    Don Peake is an American composer and session guitarist best known for his film and television scores, including work on horror and genre movies as well as the series "Knight Rider."
  • C. John Cardy
    John Cardy is a British theoretical physicist renowned for his influential work in statistical mechanics and conformal field theory.
  • D. Richard Martin Lloyd Walters
    Richard Martin Lloyd Walters, better known as Slick Rick, is a pioneering British-American rapper famed for his storytelling style and influential role in the golden age of hip hop.
  • E. Michael Marshall
    Michael Marshall is an Anglican clergyman who served as the Bishop of Woolwich in the Church of England.
  • 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_69ca8283a6708190801af7a25a7ebb9f completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb4814a3c8190ab1fd7f755a44508 completed April 2, 2026, 12:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1eb0d984c81908408f90f156624e5 completed April 5, 2026, 4:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1edaceb608190a75e738a34c6d16f completed April 5, 2026, 5:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1ee5b837c8190b294a78cebf141ae completed April 5, 2026, 5:08 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:39 p.m.