Triple

T2273303
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bantam Books E50710 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Walter B. Pitkin Jr.
Walter B. Pitkin Jr. was an American publisher and editor best known as a co-founder of the mass-market paperback pioneer Bantam Books.
E260989 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: Walter B. Pitkin Jr. | Statement: [Bantam Books, foundedBy, Walter B. Pitkin Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter B. Pitkin Jr.
Context triple: [Bantam Books, foundedBy, Walter B. Pitkin Jr.]
  • A. William H. Filer
    William H. Filer was an American banker and civic leader best known for his pivotal role in establishing the University of Miami in the 1920s.
  • B. Michael Meany
    Michael Meany was the father of influential American labor leader George Meany and himself a working-class New Yorker involved in the early 20th-century labor milieu.
  • C. Wilson M. Tigard
    Wilson M. Tigard was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the city of Tigard, Oregon, was named.
  • D. William A. Egan
    William A. Egan was an American politician who became the first elected governor of the U.S. state of Alaska after it achieved statehood.
  • E. Cecil D. Andrus
    Cecil D. Andrus was an American politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior under President Jimmy Carter and as a long-time governor of Idaho, known for his work on environmental and public lands issues.
  • 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: Walter B. Pitkin Jr.
Triple: [Bantam Books, foundedBy, Walter B. Pitkin Jr.]
Generated description
Walter B. Pitkin Jr. was an American publisher and editor best known as a co-founder of the mass-market paperback pioneer Bantam Books.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter B. Pitkin Jr.
Target entity description: Walter B. Pitkin Jr. was an American publisher and editor best known as a co-founder of the mass-market paperback pioneer Bantam Books.
  • A. William H. Filer
    William H. Filer was an American banker and civic leader best known for his pivotal role in establishing the University of Miami in the 1920s.
  • B. Michael Meany
    Michael Meany was the father of influential American labor leader George Meany and himself a working-class New Yorker involved in the early 20th-century labor milieu.
  • C. Wilson M. Tigard
    Wilson M. Tigard was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the city of Tigard, Oregon, was named.
  • D. William A. Egan
    William A. Egan was an American politician who became the first elected governor of the U.S. state of Alaska after it achieved statehood.
  • E. Cecil D. Andrus
    Cecil D. Andrus was an American politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior under President Jimmy Carter and as a long-time governor of Idaho, known for his work on environmental and public lands issues.
  • 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_69abc1ea6cc88190982527774223127f completed March 7, 2026, 6:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aea86ab4cc8190ba2203c09f72aaa6 completed March 9, 2026, 11 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aeaa6cb58081909a0897d4cb328063 completed March 9, 2026, 11:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aeabb6d43481908899080f6ca58101 completed March 9, 2026, 11:15 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:48 p.m.