Triple

T9923465
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cypress Lawn Memorial Park E187859 entity
Predicate hasNotableBurial P196 FINISHED
Object Herb Caen
Herb Caen was a Pulitzer Prize–winning San Francisco newspaper columnist renowned for his witty, influential daily columns that helped define the city’s cultural identity for decades.
E829533 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: Herb Caen | Statement: [Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, hasNotableBurial, Herb Caen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herb Caen
Context triple: [Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, hasNotableBurial, Herb Caen]
  • A. Bob Fouts
    Bob Fouts was an American sportscaster best known for his long career as a play-by-play announcer for San Francisco Bay Area sports teams.
  • B. Bill Dwyer
    Bill Dwyer was a Prohibition-era bootlegger and sports entrepreneur who became a prominent owner of professional sports teams, including the NFL’s Brooklyn Dodgers.
  • C. Heywood Broun
    Heywood Broun was an influential American journalist, columnist, and social critic of the early 20th century, known for his progressive views and advocacy for labor and civil liberties.
  • D. Don Francis
    Don Francis is an American epidemiologist and public health official known for his early work on HIV/AIDS research and prevention.
  • E. Bill O’Meara
    Bill O’Meara is a technology entrepreneur best known as a founder of the semiconductor company LSI Logic.
  • 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: Herb Caen
Triple: [Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, hasNotableBurial, Herb Caen]
Generated description
Herb Caen was a Pulitzer Prize–winning San Francisco newspaper columnist renowned for his witty, influential daily columns that helped define the city’s cultural identity for decades.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herb Caen
Target entity description: Herb Caen was a Pulitzer Prize–winning San Francisco newspaper columnist renowned for his witty, influential daily columns that helped define the city’s cultural identity for decades.
  • A. Bob Fouts
    Bob Fouts was an American sportscaster best known for his long career as a play-by-play announcer for San Francisco Bay Area sports teams.
  • B. Bill Dwyer
    Bill Dwyer was a Prohibition-era bootlegger and sports entrepreneur who became a prominent owner of professional sports teams, including the NFL’s Brooklyn Dodgers.
  • C. Heywood Broun
    Heywood Broun was an influential American journalist, columnist, and social critic of the early 20th century, known for his progressive views and advocacy for labor and civil liberties.
  • D. Don Francis
    Don Francis is an American epidemiologist and public health official known for his early work on HIV/AIDS research and prevention.
  • E. Bill O’Meara
    Bill O’Meara is a technology entrepreneur best known as a founder of the semiconductor company LSI Logic.
  • 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_69ca82b22a688190b52c75bd48429c10 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb59733188190900426e4e29ae5e3 completed April 2, 2026, 12:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d20e0bdae08190acb94fe7d5471e4b completed April 5, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d20ef343a4819093b915a66c63fbaa completed April 5, 2026, 7:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d212d0ed108190bbde23439734618a completed April 5, 2026, 7:44 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:42 p.m.