Triple

T11827665
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The New York Review of Books E281297 entity
Predicate notableContributor P304 FINISHED
Object Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma is a Dutch writer, journalist, and scholar known for his works on Asian culture, politics, and Western perceptions of the East.
E949740 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: Ian Buruma | Statement: [The New York Review of Books, notableContributor, Ian Buruma]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ian Buruma
Context triple: [The New York Review of Books, notableContributor, Ian Buruma]
  • A. Hendrik Hertzberg
    Hendrik Hertzberg is an American journalist and longtime New Yorker staff writer and editor known for his incisive political commentary and essays.
  • B. Norman Finkelstein
    Norman Finkelstein is an American political scientist, author, and commentator known for his controversial critiques of Israeli policy and the politics surrounding the Holocaust.
  • C. Anne Applebaum
    Anne Applebaum is an American historian, journalist, and author renowned for her works on Soviet and Eastern European history, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Gulag: A History."
  • D. Timothy Snyder
    Timothy Snyder is an American historian and Yale professor renowned for his works on Eastern Europe, the Holocaust, and the political uses of history.
  • E. David Berenbaum
    David Berenbaum is an American screenwriter best known for writing the popular Christmas comedy film "Elf."
  • 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: Ian Buruma
Triple: [The New York Review of Books, notableContributor, Ian Buruma]
Generated description
Ian Buruma is a Dutch writer, journalist, and scholar known for his works on Asian culture, politics, and Western perceptions of the East.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ian Buruma
Target entity description: Ian Buruma is a Dutch writer, journalist, and scholar known for his works on Asian culture, politics, and Western perceptions of the East.
  • A. Hendrik Hertzberg
    Hendrik Hertzberg is an American journalist and longtime New Yorker staff writer and editor known for his incisive political commentary and essays.
  • B. Norman Finkelstein
    Norman Finkelstein is an American political scientist, author, and commentator known for his controversial critiques of Israeli policy and the politics surrounding the Holocaust.
  • C. Anne Applebaum
    Anne Applebaum is an American historian, journalist, and author renowned for her works on Soviet and Eastern European history, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Gulag: A History."
  • D. Timothy Snyder
    Timothy Snyder is an American historian and Yale professor renowned for his works on Eastern Europe, the Holocaust, and the political uses of history.
  • E. David Berenbaum
    David Berenbaum is an American screenwriter best known for writing the popular Christmas comedy film "Elf."
  • 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_69d6ab276f8c8190b1966a0ef11349ac completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a5ec3a148190bb184ba0d481b16a completed April 10, 2026, 7:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f1671989f88190b8c1fb520435a25e completed April 29, 2026, 2:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f16e31ebfc81908255e24b96bf9a99 completed April 29, 2026, 2:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f1a09eae7481908200709ae9721d53 completed April 29, 2026, 6:09 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:43 p.m.