Triple

T20075045
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Davys E499838 entity
Predicate alternateSpellingOf P457 FINISHED
Object John Davis
John Davis is a person whose name is alternatively spelled as John Davys, indicating variant historical or textual usages of the same individual’s name.
E116688 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: John Davis | Statement: [John Davys, alternateSpellingOf, John Davis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Davis
Context triple: [John Davys, alternateSpellingOf, John Davis]
  • A. John Davis
    John Davis is a prominent American film and television producer known for founding Davis Entertainment and producing numerous major studio movies and series.
  • B. John Davis
    John Davis was a British special operations officer who served with the World War II clandestine unit Force 136, conducting covert missions in Japanese-occupied territories in Southeast Asia.
  • C. John Davis
    John Davis is an Australian climber best known for leading the first successful ascent of the remote sea stack Ball's Pyramid in 1965.
  • D. John Davis
    John Davis was an American statesman who represented South Carolina as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary era.
  • E. John Davis
    John Davis was the husband of Sarah Breedlove, better known as Madam C. J. Walker, the pioneering African American entrepreneur and philanthropist.
  • 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: John Davis
Triple: [John Davys, alternateSpellingOf, John Davis]
Generated description
John Davis is a person whose name is alternatively spelled as John Davys, indicating variant historical or textual usages of the same individual’s name.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Davis
Target entity description: John Davis is a person whose name is alternatively spelled as John Davys, indicating variant historical or textual usages of the same individual’s name.
  • A. John Davis
    John Davis is a prominent American film and television producer known for founding Davis Entertainment and producing numerous major studio movies and series.
  • B. John Davis
    John Davis was an American statesman who represented South Carolina as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary era.
  • C. John Davis
    John Davis was a British special operations officer who served with the World War II clandestine unit Force 136, conducting covert missions in Japanese-occupied territories in Southeast Asia.
  • D. John Davis chosen
    John Davis was a 16th-century English navigator and explorer best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
  • E. John Davis
    John Davis was the husband of Sarah Breedlove, better known as Madam C. J. Walker, the pioneering African American entrepreneur and philanthropist.
  • F. None of above.

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_69da627770948190997f486f9a2e370f completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6643ab0448190ab18d013b72aaf32 completed April 20, 2026, 5:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a082dcad498819086d99167561d89ec completed May 16, 2026, 8:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a082ea54a3c8190bfe6b4b7124f6d3e completed May 16, 2026, 8:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a082faf0ca48190a498079bda6fb96f completed May 16, 2026, 8:49 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 3:40 p.m.