Triple

T10234236
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth E243421 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object Leigh Montville
Leigh Montville is an American sportswriter and bestselling biographer known for his vivid, deeply reported books on iconic athletes and sports figures.
 E851470 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: Leigh Montville | Statement: [The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth, author, Leigh Montville]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Leigh Montville
Context triple: [The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth, author, Leigh Montville]
  • A. Guy Maddin
    Guy Maddin is a Canadian filmmaker known for his surreal, visually stylized films that often emulate silent and early sound cinema.
  • B. Nicholas Lea
    Nicholas Lea is a Canadian actor best known for his recurring role as Alex Krycek on the television series "The X-Files."
  • C. David Sillar
    David Sillar was a Scottish poet, close friend, and contemporary of Robert Burns, known for his role in the Ayrshire literary circle of the late 18th century.
  • D. Don Nicholl
    Don Nicholl was a British-born television writer and producer best known for co-creating influential American sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • E. John Neufeld
    John Neufeld is a film music orchestrator known for his work on major Hollywood scores, including Disney’s animated feature "Mulan" (1998).
  • 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: Leigh Montville
Triple: [The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth, author, Leigh Montville]
Generated description
Leigh Montville is an American sportswriter and bestselling biographer known for his vivid, deeply reported books on iconic athletes and sports figures.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Leigh Montville
Target entity description: Leigh Montville is an American sportswriter and bestselling biographer known for his vivid, deeply reported books on iconic athletes and sports figures.
  • A. Guy Maddin
    Guy Maddin is a Canadian filmmaker known for his surreal, visually stylized films that often emulate silent and early sound cinema.
  • B. Nicholas Lea
    Nicholas Lea is a Canadian actor best known for his recurring role as Alex Krycek on the television series "The X-Files."
  • C. David Sillar
    David Sillar was a Scottish poet, close friend, and contemporary of Robert Burns, known for his role in the Ayrshire literary circle of the late 18th century.
  • D. Don Nicholl
    Don Nicholl was a British-born television writer and producer best known for co-creating influential American sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • E. John Neufeld
    John Neufeld is a film music orchestrator known for his work on major Hollywood scores, including Disney’s animated feature "Mulan" (1998).
  • 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_69d381b0f97c819085c9b45799a5fb7c completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4d20cd8708190ba42752597d62008 completed April 7, 2026, 9:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d6f74c66048190a0ba1cba593cccb5 completed April 9, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d6fa2ea97081908395048218c0592b completed April 9, 2026, 1 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d6fcb5dc4c8190944a423a9d16a4b8 completed April 9, 2026, 1:11 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:21 a.m.