Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Grand Admiral Thrawn E425091 entity
Predicate creator P184 FINISHED
Object Timothy Zahn
Timothy Zahn is an American science fiction author best known for his influential Star Wars novels, particularly those introducing the character Grand Admiral Thrawn.
E1270626 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: Timothy Zahn | Statement: [Grand Admiral Thrawn, creator, Timothy Zahn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Timothy Zahn
Context triple: [Grand Admiral Thrawn, creator, Timothy Zahn]
  • A. Lazlo Biggs
    Lazlo Biggs is the child of American actor Jason Biggs.
  • B. Rick Jaffa
    Rick Jaffa is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing major science fiction and adventure films such as the rebooted Planet of the Apes series and Jurassic World.
  • C. Alan Ford
    Alan Ford is a British character actor best known for his tough-guy and gangster roles in films by director Guy Ritchie.
  • D. Andor Jaross
    Andor Jaross was a Hungarian politician and Interior Ministry official who played a leading role in organizing and overseeing the deportation of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.
  • E. Tharon Musser
    Tharon Musser was a pioneering American lighting designer renowned for revolutionizing Broadway lighting with her innovative use of computerized systems on landmark productions.
  • 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: Timothy Zahn
Triple: [Grand Admiral Thrawn, creator, Timothy Zahn]
Generated description
Timothy Zahn is an American science fiction author best known for his influential Star Wars novels, particularly those introducing the character Grand Admiral Thrawn.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Timothy Zahn
Target entity description: Timothy Zahn is an American science fiction author best known for his influential Star Wars novels, particularly those introducing the character Grand Admiral Thrawn.
  • A. Lazlo Biggs
    Lazlo Biggs is the child of American actor Jason Biggs.
  • B. Rick Jaffa
    Rick Jaffa is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing major science fiction and adventure films such as the rebooted Planet of the Apes series and Jurassic World.
  • C. Alan Ford
    Alan Ford is a British character actor best known for his tough-guy and gangster roles in films by director Guy Ritchie.
  • D. Andor Jaross
    Andor Jaross was a Hungarian politician and Interior Ministry official who played a leading role in organizing and overseeing the deportation of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.
  • E. Tharon Musser
    Tharon Musser was a pioneering American lighting designer renowned for revolutionizing Broadway lighting with her innovative use of computerized systems on landmark productions.
  • 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_69d889db0ba481908402409af3b37917 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4514385e48190b97a257bb3d07d2d completed April 19, 2026, 3:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01b820024c8190bd8f083b426f82f5 completed May 11, 2026, 11:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01b90e68d08190be86aee8d6692ce1 completed May 11, 2026, 11:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01b993324081908b561700bbeac11c completed May 11, 2026, 11:12 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:47 a.m.