Triple

T15757378
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Yiddish Policemen's Union E382000 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Berko Shemets
Berko Shemets is a half-Tlingit, half-Jewish police detective in Michael Chabon’s novel *The Yiddish Policemen’s Union*, known for his complex identity and partnership with protagonist Meyer Landsman.
E1180215 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: Berko Shemets | Statement: [The Yiddish Policemen's Union, character, Berko Shemets]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Berko Shemets
Context triple: [The Yiddish Policemen's Union, character, Berko Shemets]
  • A. Alon Shvut
    Alon Shvut is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank known for its religious Zionist community and proximity to Jerusalem.
  • B. Uri Zelcha
    Uri Zelcha is an Israeli musician best known as the bassist of the world-fusion band Bustan Abraham and for his work in contemporary Middle Eastern and jazz ensembles.
  • C. Shimon Lankri
    Shimon Lankri is an Israeli politician who has served as the long-time mayor of the coastal city of Akko (Acre).
  • D. Moti Safra
    Moti Safra is a theoretical computer scientist recognized for his influential contributions to complexity theory and automata, honored with the prestigious EATCS Award.
  • E. Nimrod Klein
    Nimrod Klein is a central fictional character in the Israeli television drama "Prisoners of War," portrayed as a former soldier returning home after years of captivity and struggling to reintegrate into family and society.
  • 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: Berko Shemets
Triple: [The Yiddish Policemen's Union, character, Berko Shemets]
Generated description
Berko Shemets is a half-Tlingit, half-Jewish police detective in Michael Chabon’s novel *The Yiddish Policemen’s Union*, known for his complex identity and partnership with protagonist Meyer Landsman.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Berko Shemets
Target entity description: Berko Shemets is a half-Tlingit, half-Jewish police detective in Michael Chabon’s novel *The Yiddish Policemen’s Union*, known for his complex identity and partnership with protagonist Meyer Landsman.
  • A. Alon Shvut
    Alon Shvut is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank known for its religious Zionist community and proximity to Jerusalem.
  • B. Uri Zelcha
    Uri Zelcha is an Israeli musician best known as the bassist of the world-fusion band Bustan Abraham and for his work in contemporary Middle Eastern and jazz ensembles.
  • C. Shimon Lankri
    Shimon Lankri is an Israeli politician who has served as the long-time mayor of the coastal city of Akko (Acre).
  • D. Moti Safra
    Moti Safra is a theoretical computer scientist recognized for his influential contributions to complexity theory and automata, honored with the prestigious EATCS Award.
  • E. Nimrod Klein
    Nimrod Klein is a central fictional character in the Israeli television drama "Prisoners of War," portrayed as a former soldier returning home after years of captivity and struggling to reintegrate into family and society.
  • 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_69d86d9e6b44819085d1f6a969ecb74c completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e050b1ff4881909d5240d1d30f5c8b completed April 16, 2026, 3 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffa129a6448190affdee9d0b1362bc completed May 9, 2026, 9:03 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffa417ee248190808b0fecfb58d705 completed May 9, 2026, 9:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffa5372f248190827cdc4985fee1ef completed May 9, 2026, 9:20 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:47 a.m.