Triple

T1944185
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William S. Paley E42025 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object William Samuel Paley
William Samuel Paley was an American broadcasting executive who built CBS into one of the dominant radio and television networks of the 20th century.
E219662 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: William Samuel Paley | Statement: [William S. Paley, fullName, William Samuel Paley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Samuel Paley
Context triple: [William S. Paley, fullName, William Samuel Paley]
  • A. Richard Bentley
    Richard Bentley was a prominent 19th-century British publisher and bookseller known for issuing major literary works by authors such as Charles Dickens and Herman Melville.
  • B. Richard Bentley
    Richard Bentley was an 18th-century English designer and illustrator closely associated with Horace Walpole, known for helping develop the early Gothic Revival style seen at Strawberry Hill.
  • C. David Hartley
    David Hartley was an 18th-century English philosopher and physician best known for developing the psychological theory of associationism, which significantly shaped later thinkers such as Joseph Priestley.
  • D. David Hartley
    David Hartley was an 18th-century British politician and diplomat best known for representing Britain in negotiating and signing the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolutionary War.
  • E. Samuel Clarke
    Samuel Clarke was an 18th-century English philosopher and Anglican clergyman known for his influential works on natural religion, metaphysics, and Newtonian theology.
  • 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: William Samuel Paley
Triple: [William S. Paley, fullName, William Samuel Paley]
Generated description
William Samuel Paley was an American broadcasting executive who built CBS into one of the dominant radio and television networks of the 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Samuel Paley
Target entity description: William Samuel Paley was an American broadcasting executive who built CBS into one of the dominant radio and television networks of the 20th century.
  • A. Richard Bentley
    Richard Bentley was a prominent 19th-century British publisher and bookseller known for issuing major literary works by authors such as Charles Dickens and Herman Melville.
  • B. Richard Bentley
    Richard Bentley was an 18th-century English designer and illustrator closely associated with Horace Walpole, known for helping develop the early Gothic Revival style seen at Strawberry Hill.
  • C. David Hartley
    David Hartley was an 18th-century English philosopher and physician best known for developing the psychological theory of associationism, which significantly shaped later thinkers such as Joseph Priestley.
  • D. David Hartley
    David Hartley was an 18th-century British politician and diplomat best known for representing Britain in negotiating and signing the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolutionary War.
  • E. Samuel Clarke
    Samuel Clarke was an 18th-century English philosopher and Anglican clergyman known for his influential works on natural religion, metaphysics, and Newtonian theology.
  • 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_69a8870e08fc8190a319cbf2600db15f completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb2ff43108190af37ad12d123dcba completed March 7, 2026, 5:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adfbb9b594819096747b580ec18fee completed March 8, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adfc3d37e4819082673b84eb5a19f2 completed March 8, 2026, 10:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adfd7ef5588190ab85f3981466d1e0 completed March 8, 2026, 10:51 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:36 p.m.