Triple

T2271495
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject San Francisco Ballet E50668 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Willam Christensen
Willam Christensen was an influential American ballet dancer, choreographer, and director best known for helping establish professional ballet in the United States, including shaping the early artistic direction of the San Francisco Ballet.
 E252570 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: Willam Christensen | Statement: [San Francisco Ballet, founder, Willam Christensen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Willam Christensen
Context triple: [San Francisco Ballet, founder, Willam Christensen]
  • A. Ron Jensen
    Ron Jensen is an American politician who has served as the mayor of Grand Prairie, Texas.
  • B. Hans Dreier
    Hans Dreier was a prominent German-born art director in Hollywood’s Golden Age, best known for his influential visual design work on numerous Paramount Pictures films.
  • C. Carl Erickson
    Carl Erickson was an American screenwriter active in early 20th-century Hollywood, known for his work on several studio films during the 1930s.
  • D. Ole Hanson
    Ole Hanson was an American real estate developer and former mayor of Seattle best known for envisioning and developing the master-planned coastal community of San Clemente, California.
  • E. Martin Lindauer
    Martin Lindauer was a German behavioral biologist and prominent honeybee researcher known for his pioneering work on insect communication and social organization.
  • 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: Willam Christensen
Triple: [San Francisco Ballet, founder, Willam Christensen]
Generated description
Willam Christensen was an influential American ballet dancer, choreographer, and director best known for helping establish professional ballet in the United States, including shaping the early artistic direction of the San Francisco Ballet.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Willam Christensen
Target entity description: Willam Christensen was an influential American ballet dancer, choreographer, and director best known for helping establish professional ballet in the United States, including shaping the early artistic direction of the San Francisco Ballet.
  • A. Ron Jensen
    Ron Jensen is an American politician who has served as the mayor of Grand Prairie, Texas.
  • B. Hans Dreier
    Hans Dreier was a prominent German-born art director in Hollywood’s Golden Age, best known for his influential visual design work on numerous Paramount Pictures films.
  • C. Carl Erickson
    Carl Erickson was an American screenwriter active in early 20th-century Hollywood, known for his work on several studio films during the 1930s.
  • D. Ole Hanson
    Ole Hanson was an American real estate developer and former mayor of Seattle best known for envisioning and developing the master-planned coastal community of San Clemente, California.
  • E. Martin Lindauer
    Martin Lindauer was a German behavioral biologist and prominent honeybee researcher known for his pioneering work on insect communication and social organization.
  • 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_69a88b05910c8190a9a2b1ff230c85f9 completed March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc1c0de488190876b644cdaa41637 completed March 7, 2026, 6:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae7f0ed1b881909ba3c7f9fea50267 completed March 9, 2026, 8:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae7fee12ac8190bb9924f7467434a6 completed March 9, 2026, 8:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae8061cd348190b0b0b65dcf730f99 completed March 9, 2026, 8:10 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:48 p.m.