Triple

T2214148
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Durant E50984 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Will Durant
Will Durant was an American historian and philosopher best known for co-authoring the multi-volume work "The Story of Civilization" with his wife, Ariel Durant.
E248230 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: Will Durant | Statement: [Durant, hasNotableBearer, Will Durant]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Will Durant
Context triple: [Durant, hasNotableBearer, Will Durant]
  • A. Mortimer Adler
    Mortimer Adler was an American philosopher, educator, and popularizer of the Great Books movement, known for his work on liberal education and efforts to make philosophy accessible to the general public.
  • B. Ariel Durant
    Ariel Durant was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American historian and co-author, with her husband Will Durant, of the influential multi-volume series "The Story of Civilization."
  • C. Arnold Toynbee
    Arnold Toynbee was a prominent British historian and philosopher of history best known for his multi-volume work "A Study of History," which analyzed the rise and fall of civilizations.
  • D. Michael H. Hart
    Michael H. Hart is an American astrophysicist and author best known for his work on the Fermi paradox and his controversial book "The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History."
  • E. I. Bernard Cohen
    I. Bernard Cohen was a prominent American historian of science best known for his influential scholarship on Isaac Newton and the Scientific Revolution.
  • 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: Will Durant
Triple: [Durant, hasNotableBearer, Will Durant]
Generated description
Will Durant was an American historian and philosopher best known for co-authoring the multi-volume work "The Story of Civilization" with his wife, Ariel Durant.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Will Durant
Target entity description: Will Durant was an American historian and philosopher best known for co-authoring the multi-volume work "The Story of Civilization" with his wife, Ariel Durant.
  • A. Mortimer Adler
    Mortimer Adler was an American philosopher, educator, and popularizer of the Great Books movement, known for his work on liberal education and efforts to make philosophy accessible to the general public.
  • B. Ariel Durant
    Ariel Durant was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American historian and co-author, with her husband Will Durant, of the influential multi-volume series "The Story of Civilization."
  • C. Arnold Toynbee
    Arnold Toynbee was a prominent British historian and philosopher of history best known for his multi-volume work "A Study of History," which analyzed the rise and fall of civilizations.
  • D. Michael H. Hart
    Michael H. Hart is an American astrophysicist and author best known for his work on the Fermi paradox and his controversial book "The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History."
  • E. I. Bernard Cohen
    I. Bernard Cohen was a prominent American historian of science best known for his influential scholarship on Isaac Newton and the Scientific Revolution.
  • 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_69a88b06709c8190978fb2418470d1b6 completed March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbfef875c8190b642736b4cc11d4c completed March 7, 2026, 6:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae6afa4f4481908cd1559624805559 completed March 9, 2026, 6:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae6bbba3908190b24b6e29175cc449 completed March 9, 2026, 6:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae6c5f6364819085aed383ab0ff8c5 completed March 9, 2026, 6:44 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:46 p.m.