Triple

T138266
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Coit Tower E2794 entity
Predicate hasArtist P5936 FINISHED
Object John Langley Howard
John Langley Howard was an American painter and muralist associated with the Social Realist movement, known for his New Deal–era public artworks in San Francisco.
E80090 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 Langley Howard | Statement: [Coit Tower, hasArtist, John Langley Howard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Langley Howard
Context triple: [Coit Tower, hasArtist, John Langley Howard]
  • A. Ronald William Howard
    Ronald William Howard is an American filmmaker and former child actor best known for starring in "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Happy Days" and directing acclaimed films such as "Apollo 13" and "A Beautiful Mind."
  • B. Sidney Darlington
    Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
  • C. John L. Lumley
    John L. Lumley was a prominent American fluid dynamicist known for his pioneering contributions to the understanding and modeling of turbulence.
  • D. John Gilroy
    John Gilroy is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction monster film "Pacific Rim."
  • E. James Honaker
    James Honaker is a political scientist and statistician known for his work on methods for handling missing data and for coauthoring influential research with Gary King.
  • 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 Langley Howard
Triple: [Coit Tower, hasArtist, John Langley Howard]
Generated description
John Langley Howard was an American painter and muralist associated with the Social Realist movement, known for his New Deal–era public artworks in San Francisco.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Langley Howard
Target entity description: John Langley Howard was an American painter and muralist associated with the Social Realist movement, known for his New Deal–era public artworks in San Francisco.
  • A. Ronald William Howard
    Ronald William Howard is an American filmmaker and former child actor best known for starring in "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Happy Days" and directing acclaimed films such as "Apollo 13" and "A Beautiful Mind."
  • B. Sidney Darlington
    Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
  • C. John L. Lumley
    John L. Lumley was a prominent American fluid dynamicist known for his pioneering contributions to the understanding and modeling of turbulence.
  • D. John Gilroy
    John Gilroy is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction monster film "Pacific Rim."
  • E. James Honaker
    James Honaker is a political scientist and statistician known for his work on methods for handling missing data and for coauthoring influential research with Gary King.
  • 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_69a2521e35c08190b28e5c9f1e3c9b59 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25b82ef94819083488d3d93fdfe6f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a573ff0574819083e39dc93de4311f completed March 2, 2026, 11:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a574cd4970819085e97d86e47d2e7b completed March 2, 2026, 11:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a57686f7dc8190a94e0f36cc47fa3a completed March 2, 2026, 11:37 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:31 a.m.