Triple

T20033086
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Little Creatures E497188 entity
Predicate coverArtCreator P58280 FINISHED
Object Howard Finster
Howard Finster was an American folk and outsider artist and Baptist minister known for his visionary paintings and elaborate art environment Paradise Garden.
E1407694 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: Howard Finster | Statement: [Little Creatures, coverArtCreator, Howard Finster]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Finster
Context triple: [Little Creatures, coverArtCreator, Howard Finster]
  • A. Ignatz Sonnenschein
    Ignatz Sonnenschein is the central member of a Hungarian Jewish family whose life and identity struggles anchor the multigenerational historical drama in the film "Sunshine."
  • B. Paul Menzel
    Paul Menzel is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability is not clearly established from the given information.
  • C. Julius Garfinkle
    Julius Garfinkle is an individual whose specific public notability or distinguishing achievements are not clearly documented in widely available sources.
  • D. Happy Felsch
    Happy Felsch was an American Major League Baseball outfielder best known as one of the Chicago White Sox players banned for his role in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
  • E. Wil Horneff
    Wil Horneff is an American actor best known for his roles in 1990s film and television, including notable appearances in family and genre 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: Howard Finster
Triple: [Little Creatures, coverArtCreator, Howard Finster]
Generated description
Howard Finster was an American folk and outsider artist and Baptist minister known for his visionary paintings and elaborate art environment Paradise Garden.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Finster
Target entity description: Howard Finster was an American folk and outsider artist and Baptist minister known for his visionary paintings and elaborate art environment Paradise Garden.
  • A. Ignatz Sonnenschein
    Ignatz Sonnenschein is the central member of a Hungarian Jewish family whose life and identity struggles anchor the multigenerational historical drama in the film "Sunshine."
  • B. Paul Menzel
    Paul Menzel is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability is not clearly established from the given information.
  • C. Julius Garfinkle
    Julius Garfinkle is an individual whose specific public notability or distinguishing achievements are not clearly documented in widely available sources.
  • D. Happy Felsch
    Happy Felsch was an American Major League Baseball outfielder best known as one of the Chicago White Sox players banned for his role in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
  • E. Wil Horneff
    Wil Horneff is an American actor best known for his roles in 1990s film and television, including notable appearances in family and genre 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_69da627278c88190babe4297a9df1236 completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e66293e3908190ade07ba9e09da803 completed April 20, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a080e35085881909bdc753f10ab4425 completed May 16, 2026, 6:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a080f393dc0819093fec526d1b51dac completed May 16, 2026, 6:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0810234a788190b329c55e553b365e completed May 16, 2026, 6:35 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 3:36 p.m.