Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Frances de Villers Brokaw E313588 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Brokaw
Brokaw is a surname most prominently associated with American broadcast journalist Tom Brokaw and his family.
 E87148 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: Brokaw | Statement: [Frances de Villers Brokaw, familyName, Brokaw]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Brokaw
Context triple: [Frances de Villers Brokaw, familyName, Brokaw]
  • A. George Tuttle Brokaw
    George Tuttle Brokaw was an American lawyer and wealthy heir to a New York textile fortune, known for his high-society marriages and lifestyle in the early 20th century.
  • B. Tom Brokaw
    Tom Brokaw is an American television journalist and author best known for serving as a longtime anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News.
  • C. David Brinkley
    David Brinkley was a prominent American television newscaster and journalist best known for co-anchoring "The Huntley–Brinkley Report" and later serving as a leading figure in network evening news.
  • D. Peter Jennings
    Peter Jennings was a prominent Canadian-American journalist best known as the longtime anchor of ABC’s flagship evening news program, World News Tonight.
  • E. Jennifer Brokaw
    Jennifer Brokaw is an American physician and patient advocate, best known as the daughter of longtime NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw.
  • 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: Brokaw
Triple: [Frances de Villers Brokaw, familyName, Brokaw]
Generated description
Brokaw is a surname most prominently associated with American broadcast journalist Tom Brokaw and his family.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Brokaw
Target entity description: Brokaw is a surname most prominently associated with American broadcast journalist Tom Brokaw and his family.
  • A. George Tuttle Brokaw
    George Tuttle Brokaw was an American lawyer and wealthy heir to a New York textile fortune, known for his high-society marriages and lifestyle in the early 20th century.
  • B. Tom Brokaw chosen
    Tom Brokaw is an American television journalist and author best known for serving as a longtime anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News.
  • C. David Brinkley
    David Brinkley was a prominent American television newscaster and journalist best known for co-anchoring "The Huntley–Brinkley Report" and later serving as a leading figure in network evening news.
  • D. Peter Jennings
    Peter Jennings was a prominent Canadian-American journalist best known as the longtime anchor of ABC’s flagship evening news program, World News Tonight.
  • E. Jennifer Brokaw
    Jennifer Brokaw is an American physician and patient advocate, best known as the daughter of longtime NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d806ad0c44819088833ae1ec9e9690 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbaed304ac8190a8021f749de8164c completed April 12, 2026, 2:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7398b828c8190a029a5862ae1fded completed May 3, 2026, 12:03 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f73b065818819095d26633fc682546 completed May 3, 2026, 12:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f73b8635888190b31035bc72676b9d completed May 3, 2026, 12:11 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:40 p.m.