Triple

T11722376
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Dawn Wall E278668 entity
Predicate featuresPerson P2308 FINISHED
Object John Branch
John Branch is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist known for his long-form narrative sports and adventure reporting for The New York Times.
 E955792 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: John Branch | Statement: [The Dawn Wall, featuresPerson, John Branch]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Branch
Context triple: [The Dawn Wall, featuresPerson, John Branch]
  • A. John Brasfield
    John Brasfield is the stepchild of American comedian and actor Jack Carter.
  • B. William Ragsdale
    William Ragsdale is an American actor best known for his lead role in the 1985 horror-comedy film "Fright Night" and its sequel.
  • C. Grady Lee Richmond
    Grady Lee Richmond is an American actor best known for his role on the Netflix comedy series "The Ranch."
  • D. Francis Timothy McCown
    Francis Timothy McCown, better known by his stage name Rory Calhoun, was an American actor and producer prominent in Western films and television from the 1940s through the 1960s.
  • E. Burley Mitchell
    Burley Mitchell is a former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court and a prominent American jurist.
  • 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: John Branch
Triple: [The Dawn Wall, featuresPerson, John Branch]
Generated description
John Branch is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist known for his long-form narrative sports and adventure reporting for The New York Times.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Branch
Target entity description: John Branch is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist known for his long-form narrative sports and adventure reporting for The New York Times.
  • A. John Brasfield
    John Brasfield is the stepchild of American comedian and actor Jack Carter.
  • B. William Ragsdale
    William Ragsdale is an American actor best known for his lead role in the 1985 horror-comedy film "Fright Night" and its sequel.
  • C. Grady Lee Richmond
    Grady Lee Richmond is an American actor best known for his role on the Netflix comedy series "The Ranch."
  • D. Francis Timothy McCown
    Francis Timothy McCown, better known by his stage name Rory Calhoun, was an American actor and producer prominent in Western films and television from the 1940s through the 1960s.
  • E. Burley Mitchell
    Burley Mitchell is a former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court and a prominent American jurist.
  • 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_69d6aaffec6881908bead509e8621742 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a4c373088190bc2ae77a1696d280 completed April 10, 2026, 7:20 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f457f7be0081908f8e1760cc7b8294 completed May 1, 2026, 7:36 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f4645a7038819089d7533715f8a430 completed May 1, 2026, 8:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f4664ff9608190b23e29b3e5c1c326 completed May 1, 2026, 8:37 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:40 p.m.