Triple

T16780980
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harold Finch E407855 entity
Predicate hasAlias P455 FINISHED
Object Harold Whistler
Harold Whistler is an alias used by Harold Finch, the reclusive billionaire tech genius from the television series "Person of Interest."
E1234104 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: Harold Whistler | Statement: [Harold Finch, hasAlias, Harold Whistler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harold Whistler
Context triple: [Harold Finch, hasAlias, Harold Whistler]
  • A. William Walters
    William Walters is a fictional character appearing in Daniel Defoe’s adventure novel "Captain Singleton."
  • B. William Walters
    William Walters was a prominent 19th-century American businessman and art collector from Baltimore, Maryland.
  • C. George Bridgman
    George Bridgman was a renowned Canadian-American artist and influential art instructor best known for his foundational books and teachings on figure drawing and anatomy.
  • D. Thomas Hollis Smith
    Thomas Hollis Smith was the son of Nabby Adams, the daughter of U.S. President John Adams and Abigail Adams, and thus a member of the prominent Adams family.
  • E. George Washington Whistler
    George Washington Whistler was a prominent 19th-century American civil engineer and railroad designer known for his influential work on railways in the United States and Russia.
  • 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: Harold Whistler
Triple: [Harold Finch, hasAlias, Harold Whistler]
Generated description
Harold Whistler is an alias used by Harold Finch, the reclusive billionaire tech genius from the television series "Person of Interest."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harold Whistler
Target entity description: Harold Whistler is an alias used by Harold Finch, the reclusive billionaire tech genius from the television series "Person of Interest."
  • A. William Walters
    William Walters is a fictional character appearing in Daniel Defoe’s adventure novel "Captain Singleton."
  • B. William Walters
    William Walters was a prominent 19th-century American businessman and art collector from Baltimore, Maryland.
  • C. George Bridgman
    George Bridgman was a renowned Canadian-American artist and influential art instructor best known for his foundational books and teachings on figure drawing and anatomy.
  • D. Thomas Hollis Smith
    Thomas Hollis Smith was the son of Nabby Adams, the daughter of U.S. President John Adams and Abigail Adams, and thus a member of the prominent Adams family.
  • E. George Washington Whistler
    George Washington Whistler was a prominent 19th-century American civil engineer and railroad designer known for his influential work on railways in the United States and Russia.
  • 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_69d8839270588190886720d9519bbf8f completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3b216726881908ddc9cdc772cd5e4 completed April 18, 2026, 4:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00ab0300e48190ad088cd11098ca34 completed May 10, 2026, 3:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00aba5fb388190ab98a0c8ee50340b completed May 10, 2026, 4 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00ac54a11c81909afe9244e9fe0656 completed May 10, 2026, 4:03 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:22 a.m.