Triple

T11979752
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tierney E285126 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object John Tierney
John Tierney is an American journalist and author best known for his work as a columnist for The New York Times, where he often writes on science, politics, and urban policy.
E958054 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 Tierney | Statement: [Tierney, hasNotableBearer, John Tierney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Tierney
Context triple: [Tierney, hasNotableBearer, John Tierney]
  • A. Stephen Oremus
    Stephen Oremus is a Tony Award–winning American music director, arranger, and orchestrator known for his work on major Broadway musicals such as Kinky Boots, The Book of Mormon, and Wicked.
  • B. Jeffrey Kluger
    Jeffrey Kluger is an American science and technology journalist and author best known for co-writing the book about the Apollo 13 mission that inspired the film adaptation.
  • C. Dennis Overbye
    Dennis Overbye is an American science writer and journalist best known for his work at The New York Times explaining cosmology, astrophysics, and fundamental physics to general audiences.
  • D. Michael Talbott
    Michael Talbott is an American actor best known for his role as Detective Stanley Switek on the 1980s television series "Miami Vice."
  • E. John Easterling
    John Easterling is an American businessman and environmental entrepreneur best known as the husband of singer and actress Olivia Newton-John and as the founder of the Amazon Herb Company.
  • 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 Tierney
Triple: [Tierney, hasNotableBearer, John Tierney]
Generated description
John Tierney is an American journalist and author best known for his work as a columnist for The New York Times, where he often writes on science, politics, and urban policy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Tierney
Target entity description: John Tierney is an American journalist and author best known for his work as a columnist for The New York Times, where he often writes on science, politics, and urban policy.
  • A. Stephen Oremus
    Stephen Oremus is a Tony Award–winning American music director, arranger, and orchestrator known for his work on major Broadway musicals such as Kinky Boots, The Book of Mormon, and Wicked.
  • B. Jeffrey Kluger
    Jeffrey Kluger is an American science and technology journalist and author best known for co-writing the book about the Apollo 13 mission that inspired the film adaptation.
  • C. Dennis Overbye
    Dennis Overbye is an American science writer and journalist best known for his work at The New York Times explaining cosmology, astrophysics, and fundamental physics to general audiences.
  • D. Michael Talbott
    Michael Talbott is an American actor best known for his role as Detective Stanley Switek on the 1980s television series "Miami Vice."
  • E. John Easterling
    John Easterling is an American businessman and environmental entrepreneur best known as the husband of singer and actress Olivia Newton-John and as the founder of the Amazon Herb Company.
  • 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_69d6ab2eaeb881909f7914758f859413 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d90393cfb08190b5b45d3e5e32fad3 completed April 10, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f47209bd088190bf4c7687c0a5eed6 completed May 1, 2026, 9:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f47b7ac4048190ae09f18f1a90338f completed May 1, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f47db91f38819092b7b5c5e2bb489b completed May 1, 2026, 10:17 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:46 p.m.