Triple

T20176688
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harlon Block E492117 entity
Predicate sibling P363 FINISHED
Object Wendell Block
Wendell Block is a member of the Block family, known primarily as a sibling of Harlon Block, one of the U.S. Marines famously photographed raising the flag on Iwo Jima during World War II.
E1416661 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: Wendell Block | Statement: [Harlon Block, sibling, Wendell Block]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wendell Block
Context triple: [Harlon Block, sibling, Wendell Block]
  • A. K. Trevor Wilson
    K. Trevor Wilson is a Canadian stand-up comedian and actor best known for playing the character Squirrely Dan on the television series "Letterkenny."
  • B. John Vinal
    John Vinal was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the town of Vinalhaven, Maine, was named.
  • C. Philip Bruns
    Philip Bruns was an American character actor best known for his television and film roles in the 1970s and 1980s, including his work on the satirical soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
  • D. Robert Hewitt Wolfe
    Robert Hewitt Wolfe is an American television writer and producer best known for his work on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and the science fiction series Andromeda.
  • E. Bud Ruskin
    Bud Ruskin was a television writer and producer best known for creating the late-1960s counterculture crime drama series "The Mod Squad."
  • 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: Wendell Block
Triple: [Harlon Block, sibling, Wendell Block]
Generated description
Wendell Block is a member of the Block family, known primarily as a sibling of Harlon Block, one of the U.S. Marines famously photographed raising the flag on Iwo Jima during World War II.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wendell Block
Target entity description: Wendell Block is a member of the Block family, known primarily as a sibling of Harlon Block, one of the U.S. Marines famously photographed raising the flag on Iwo Jima during World War II.
  • A. K. Trevor Wilson
    K. Trevor Wilson is a Canadian stand-up comedian and actor best known for playing the character Squirrely Dan on the television series "Letterkenny."
  • B. John Vinal
    John Vinal was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the town of Vinalhaven, Maine, was named.
  • C. Philip Bruns
    Philip Bruns was an American character actor best known for his television and film roles in the 1970s and 1980s, including his work on the satirical soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
  • D. Robert Hewitt Wolfe
    Robert Hewitt Wolfe is an American television writer and producer best known for his work on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and the science fiction series Andromeda.
  • E. Bud Ruskin
    Bud Ruskin was a television writer and producer best known for creating the late-1960s counterculture crime drama series "The Mod Squad."
  • 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_69da6266c6888190bc1a3ecf24814d34 completed April 11, 2026, 3:01 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e668eb50a48190af7de53680ca2f5d completed April 20, 2026, 5:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a083c79d2948190a1df0d3bd1f9c6ad completed May 16, 2026, 9:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a083d86085c8190a71d0dce65c659a4 completed May 16, 2026, 9:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a083eb380f48190bda8549d122f830b completed May 16, 2026, 9:53 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:36 p.m.