Triple

T10595348
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Hot Zone E250097 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object Richard Preston
Richard Preston is an American journalist and author best known for his nonfiction books about infectious diseases and biological threats, including the bestseller "The Hot Zone."
E873504 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: Richard Preston | Statement: [The Hot Zone, author, Richard Preston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Preston
Context triple: [The Hot Zone, author, Richard Preston]
  • A. Peter S. Seaman
    Peter S. Seaman is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing major Hollywood films such as "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and "Shrek the Third."
  • B. Richard Q. Twiss
    Richard Q. Twiss was a British physicist best known for co-discovering the Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect, which laid foundational work for modern quantum optics and intensity interferometry.
  • C. Peter H. Dominick
    Peter H. Dominick was a Republican U.S. Senator from Colorado who served in the 1960s and early 1970s before being unseated by Democrat Gary Hart.
  • D. Douglas J. Foskett
    Douglas J. Foskett was a British librarian and information scientist known for his influential work in library classification and information retrieval.
  • E. James R. Margulis
    James R. Margulis is the husband of author and journalist Jennifer Margulis.
  • 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: Richard Preston
Triple: [The Hot Zone, author, Richard Preston]
Generated description
Richard Preston is an American journalist and author best known for his nonfiction books about infectious diseases and biological threats, including the bestseller "The Hot Zone."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Preston
Target entity description: Richard Preston is an American journalist and author best known for his nonfiction books about infectious diseases and biological threats, including the bestseller "The Hot Zone."
  • A. Peter S. Seaman
    Peter S. Seaman is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing major Hollywood films such as "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and "Shrek the Third."
  • B. Richard Q. Twiss
    Richard Q. Twiss was a British physicist best known for co-discovering the Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect, which laid foundational work for modern quantum optics and intensity interferometry.
  • C. Peter H. Dominick
    Peter H. Dominick was a Republican U.S. Senator from Colorado who served in the 1960s and early 1970s before being unseated by Democrat Gary Hart.
  • D. Douglas J. Foskett
    Douglas J. Foskett was a British librarian and information scientist known for his influential work in library classification and information retrieval.
  • E. James R. Margulis
    James R. Margulis is the husband of author and journalist Jennifer Margulis.
  • 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_69d381c9d3d48190a29ee491e1696a0e completed April 6, 2026, 9:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d5278cbf9081909ef419b0144d5019 completed April 7, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d95e8de2e88190835954abb2ac2ece completed April 10, 2026, 8:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d95f80d0c48190b88e3a4b3e42279c completed April 10, 2026, 8:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d9602a1d688190ad0f3014d69049cc completed April 10, 2026, 8:40 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:41 p.m.