Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rodney the Ram E305836 entity
Predicate shortName P43 FINISHED
Object Rodney
Rodney is the costumed ram mascot representing Virginia Commonwealth University’s athletic teams and school spirit.
E1003163 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: Rodney | Statement: [Rodney the Ram, shortName, Rodney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rodney
Context triple: [Rodney the Ram, shortName, Rodney]
  • A. Rodney
    Rodney is the middle name of James R. Schlesinger, a prominent American economist and government official who served as U.S. Secretary of Defense and the first Secretary of Energy.
  • B. Rodney
    Rodney is the given first name of Rod Thorn, an American former professional basketball player and longtime NBA executive.
  • C. Rodney
    Rodney is a surname most notably associated with George Brydges Rodney, an 18th-century British naval officer and admiral.
  • D. Rodrick
    Rodrick is a masculine given name, typically considered a spelling variant of Roderic or Roderick, used in English-speaking contexts.
  • E. Rodney Liber
    Rodney Liber is a film producer best known for his work on movies such as the erotic thriller "Wild Things."
  • 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: Rodney
Triple: [Rodney the Ram, shortName, Rodney]
Generated description
Rodney is the costumed ram mascot representing Virginia Commonwealth University’s athletic teams and school spirit.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rodney
Target entity description: Rodney is the costumed ram mascot representing Virginia Commonwealth University’s athletic teams and school spirit.
  • A. Rodney
    Rodney is the middle name of James R. Schlesinger, a prominent American economist and government official who served as U.S. Secretary of Defense and the first Secretary of Energy.
  • B. Rodney
    Rodney is the given first name of Rod Thorn, an American former professional basketball player and longtime NBA executive.
  • C. Rodney
    Rodney is a surname most notably associated with George Brydges Rodney, an 18th-century British naval officer and admiral.
  • D. Rodrick
    Rodrick is a masculine given name, typically considered a spelling variant of Roderic or Roderick, used in English-speaking contexts.
  • E. Rodney Liber
    Rodney Liber is a film producer best known for his work on movies such as the erotic thriller "Wild Things."
  • 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_69d7bdf366888190a8cccb982606889c completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96e6ca0288190aba01735b71a01da completed April 10, 2026, 9:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6850ac1808190a9b547d934252d10 completed May 2, 2026, 11:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f689733f748190bca592ab30b4437c completed May 2, 2026, 11:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f68a4cb2c4819083def0a43452470f completed May 2, 2026, 11:35 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:30 p.m.