Triple
T11078983
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs |
E261938
|
entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Walter Isaacson |
E391817
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Walter Isaacson | Statement: [Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, author, Walter Isaacson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Isaacson Context triple: [Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, author, Walter Isaacson]
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A.
Walter Isaacson
chosen
Walter Isaacson is an American biographer, journalist, and professor best known for his bestselling biographies of figures such as Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, and Leonardo da Vinci.
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B.
Kai Bird
Kai Bird is an American historian, biographer, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for co-writing the J. Robert Oppenheimer biography "American Prometheus."
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C.
Ron Chernow
Ron Chernow is an American biographer and historian renowned for his meticulously researched works on figures such as Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and Ulysses S. Grant.
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D.
David McCullough
David McCullough was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American historian and author renowned for his richly detailed biographies of U.S. presidents and major works of narrative history.
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E.
Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis is an American musician best known as a multi-instrumentalist and saxophonist active in indie rock and jazz-influenced projects.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d6aa9983c08190b0ef61603b69feac |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d799953d58819096b645a1377e70f2 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 12:20 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69e3c8d4f22881909fa3d094a19b0a14 |
completed | April 18, 2026, 6:09 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:27 p.m.