Triple

T21095874
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Frederick August Kittel E519762 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Frederick August Kittel Sr.
Frederick August Kittel Sr. was the father of the acclaimed American playwright August Wilson (born Frederick August Kittel).
E1466676 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: Frederick August Kittel Sr. | Statement: [Frederick August Kittel, father, Frederick August Kittel Sr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederick August Kittel Sr.
Context triple: [Frederick August Kittel, father, Frederick August Kittel Sr.]
  • A. Frederick August Kittel
    Frederick August Kittel, better known as August Wilson, was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American playwright renowned for his cycle of plays depicting African American life in the 20th century.
  • B. Frederick Schley
    Frederick Schley was a 19th-century American politician and jurist from Maryland who served in the state legislature and held various public offices.
  • C. Frederick Mellinger
    Frederick Mellinger was an American entrepreneur best known for creating the iconic lingerie brand Frederick's of Hollywood, which popularized glamorous and risqué intimate apparel in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Karl Hettinger
    Karl Hettinger was a Los Angeles police officer whose traumatic experience as a kidnapped cop and witness to his partner’s murder in the 1963 “Onion Field” case became the basis for Joseph Wambaugh’s true-crime book and its film adaptation.
  • E. William Wiegand
    William Wiegand was an American writer and critic known for his contributions to mid-20th-century literary culture.
  • 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: Frederick August Kittel Sr.
Triple: [Frederick August Kittel, father, Frederick August Kittel Sr.]
Generated description
Frederick August Kittel Sr. was the father of the acclaimed American playwright August Wilson (born Frederick August Kittel).
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederick August Kittel Sr.
Target entity description: Frederick August Kittel Sr. was the father of the acclaimed American playwright August Wilson (born Frederick August Kittel).
  • A. Frederick August Kittel
    Frederick August Kittel, better known as August Wilson, was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American playwright renowned for his cycle of plays depicting African American life in the 20th century.
  • B. Frederick Schley
    Frederick Schley was a 19th-century American politician and jurist from Maryland who served in the state legislature and held various public offices.
  • C. Frederick Mellinger
    Frederick Mellinger was an American entrepreneur best known for creating the iconic lingerie brand Frederick's of Hollywood, which popularized glamorous and risqué intimate apparel in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Karl Hettinger
    Karl Hettinger was a Los Angeles police officer whose traumatic experience as a kidnapped cop and witness to his partner’s murder in the 1963 “Onion Field” case became the basis for Joseph Wambaugh’s true-crime book and its film adaptation.
  • E. William Wiegand
    William Wiegand was an American writer and critic known for his contributions to mid-20th-century literary culture.
  • 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_69e0b508d8dc81909be940dafe36c8f7 completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e71b5845f88190a16f3df157f0906c completed April 21, 2026, 6:38 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a095a5e7f048190b485f392105666d2 completed May 17, 2026, 6:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a095b6d25f8819097334c13ef37003e completed May 17, 2026, 6:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a095c7c8840819087c9860a75314b83 completed May 17, 2026, 6:13 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:52 p.m.