Triple

T16835697
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Herman Wouk E409271 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Wouk
Wouk is the surname of Herman Wouk, the Pulitzer Prize–winning American novelist best known for works such as "The Caine Mutiny" and "The Winds of War."
E1237404 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: Wouk | Statement: [Herman Wouk, familyName, Wouk]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wouk
Context triple: [Herman Wouk, familyName, Wouk]
  • A. Oscar Broneer
    Oscar Broneer was a Swedish-American archaeologist best known for his excavations in Greece, particularly at the sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia.
  • B. Seymour Nebenzal
    Seymour Nebenzal was a prominent German-American film producer known for his work in Weimar cinema and later in Hollywood, including influential films such as Fritz Lang’s "M."
  • C. Joseph Goreed
    Joseph Goreed, better known as Joe Williams, was an acclaimed American jazz and blues singer renowned for his rich baritone voice and work with the Count Basie Orchestra.
  • D. Theodore Van Kirk
    Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk was the American navigator of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II.
  • E. Seymour Kaufman
    Seymour Kaufman, better known as Cy Coleman, was an American composer and songwriter celebrated for his work on numerous hit Broadway musicals and popular songs in the mid-20th century.
  • 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: Wouk
Triple: [Herman Wouk, familyName, Wouk]
Generated description
Wouk is the surname of Herman Wouk, the Pulitzer Prize–winning American novelist best known for works such as "The Caine Mutiny" and "The Winds of War."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wouk
Target entity description: Wouk is the surname of Herman Wouk, the Pulitzer Prize–winning American novelist best known for works such as "The Caine Mutiny" and "The Winds of War."
  • A. Oscar Broneer
    Oscar Broneer was a Swedish-American archaeologist best known for his excavations in Greece, particularly at the sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia.
  • B. Seymour Nebenzal
    Seymour Nebenzal was a prominent German-American film producer known for his work in Weimar cinema and later in Hollywood, including influential films such as Fritz Lang’s "M."
  • C. Joseph Goreed
    Joseph Goreed, better known as Joe Williams, was an acclaimed American jazz and blues singer renowned for his rich baritone voice and work with the Count Basie Orchestra.
  • D. Theodore Van Kirk
    Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk was the American navigator of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II.
  • E. Seymour Kaufman
    Seymour Kaufman, better known as Cy Coleman, was an American composer and songwriter celebrated for his work on numerous hit Broadway musicals and popular songs in the mid-20th century.
  • 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_69d883952b048190887740a980b712ed completed April 10, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3b34d49d08190aa62f05d67244584 completed April 18, 2026, 4:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00bb15c9f48190a4d73bb08a15beb4 completed May 10, 2026, 5:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00bc4cdf8481909ad45b9c66234c9b completed May 10, 2026, 5:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00bcfcb434819092b85ce1debb9be8 completed May 10, 2026, 5:14 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:23 a.m.