Triple

T18324073
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bill Tilden E438956 entity
Predicate notableRival P893 FINISHED
Object Bill Johnston — NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Bill Johnston | Statement: [Bill Tilden, notableRival, Bill Johnston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Bill Johnston
Context triple: [Bill Tilden, notableRival, Bill Johnston]
  • A. Don Johnston
    Don Johnston is the jaded, middle-aged former Don Juan portrayed by Bill Murray in Jim Jarmusch’s film "Broken Flowers," who embarks on a reluctant road trip to revisit past lovers after receiving an anonymous letter about a possible son.
  • B. Ed McLaughlin
    Ed McLaughlin is an American college athletics administrator best known as the athletic director at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).
  • C. Ed McCauley
    Ed McCauley is a Canadian academic and research leader who serves as president of the University of Calgary.
  • D. Billy Johnston
    Billy Johnston is a musician best known as a member of the Scottish alternative rock band Beecake.
  • E. Philip Keenan
    Philip Keenan was an American astronomer best known for co-developing the Morgan–Keenan (MK) stellar classification system that remains a standard in astrophysics.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Bill Johnston
Target entity description: Bill Johnston was a prominent American tennis player of the early 20th century, known for his powerful forehand and multiple major titles, and for forming a famous rivalry with Bill Tilden.
  • A. Don Johnston
    Don Johnston is the jaded, middle-aged former Don Juan portrayed by Bill Murray in Jim Jarmusch’s film "Broken Flowers," who embarks on a reluctant road trip to revisit past lovers after receiving an anonymous letter about a possible son.
  • B. Ed McLaughlin
    Ed McLaughlin is an American college athletics administrator best known as the athletic director at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).
  • C. Ed McCauley
    Ed McCauley is a Canadian academic and research leader who serves as president of the University of Calgary.
  • D. Billy Johnston
    Billy Johnston is a musician best known as a member of the Scottish alternative rock band Beecake.
  • E. Philip Keenan
    Philip Keenan was an American astronomer best known for co-developing the Morgan–Keenan (MK) stellar classification system that remains a standard in astrophysics.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 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_69d8b916a2d081909e249e4902f6aad9 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e50aa93fb0819083293b80e8400c4e completed April 19, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:36 a.m.