Triple

T11524097
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Steve Blass E273244 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Blass
Blass is the surname of former Major League Baseball pitcher and longtime Pittsburgh Pirates broadcaster Steve Blass.
 E930135 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: Blass | Statement: [Steve Blass, familyName, Blass]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Blass
Context triple: [Steve Blass, familyName, Blass]
  • A. Blase
    Blase is a given name and surname, typically a variant spelling of Blaise, used in various European and English-speaking contexts.
  • B. Blatch
    Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
  • C. Blau
    The Blau is a small river in the German state of Baden-Württemberg that flows through the city of Blaustein before joining the Danube.
  • D. Blum
    Blum is a surname of German and Jewish origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as mathematics, politics, and the arts.
  • E. Blix
    Blix is a Swedish surname most notably associated with Hans Blix, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and UN weapons inspector.
  • 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: Blass
Triple: [Steve Blass, familyName, Blass]
Generated description
Blass is the surname of former Major League Baseball pitcher and longtime Pittsburgh Pirates broadcaster Steve Blass.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Blass
Target entity description: Blass is the surname of former Major League Baseball pitcher and longtime Pittsburgh Pirates broadcaster Steve Blass.
  • A. Blase
    Blase is a given name and surname, typically a variant spelling of Blaise, used in various European and English-speaking contexts.
  • B. Blatch
    Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
  • C. Blau
    The Blau is a small river in the German state of Baden-Württemberg that flows through the city of Blaustein before joining the Danube.
  • D. Blum
    Blum is a surname of German and Jewish origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as mathematics, politics, and the arts.
  • E. Blix
    Blix is a Swedish surname most notably associated with Hans Blix, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and UN weapons inspector.
  • 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_69d6aae3fbec8190a14632a5df2538b6 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d87fd26648819083de19bcddf8ad69 completed April 10, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e62562efb88190bbf3c7bbec8233aa completed April 20, 2026, 1:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e62cf5b9988190bc1935993f0111f7 completed April 20, 2026, 1:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e66433ddb48190994bb1160b0ff732 completed April 20, 2026, 5:36 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:37 p.m.