Triple

T232086
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Crimean War E4430 entity
Predicate involvedPerson P1256 FINISHED
Object William Howard Russell
William Howard Russell was a pioneering Irish war correspondent for The Times, best known for his influential frontline reporting during the Crimean War.
E29455 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: William Howard Russell | Statement: [Crimean War, involvedPerson, William Howard Russell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Howard Russell
Context triple: [Crimean War, involvedPerson, William Howard Russell]
  • A. Joe Rosenthal
    Joe Rosenthal was an American photojournalist best known for his iconic World War II photograph of U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima.
  • B. John Pilger
    John Pilger was an Australian journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker renowned for his investigative reporting and outspoken criticism of Western foreign policy and media.
  • C. Joseph Pulitzer
    Joseph Pulitzer was a Hungarian-American newspaper publisher and journalist whose innovations in mass media and commitment to public service journalism led to the establishment of the prestigious Pulitzer Prizes.
  • D. Walter Lippmann
    Walter Lippmann was an influential American writer, political commentator, and public intellectual whose work on public opinion and democracy shaped 20th-century political thought and journalism.
  • E. Jon Postel
    Jon Postel was an American computer scientist and early Internet pioneer best known for overseeing key Internet protocols and numbering systems, helping shape the modern Internet’s technical foundations.
  • 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: William Howard Russell
Triple: [Crimean War, involvedPerson, William Howard Russell]
Generated description
William Howard Russell was a pioneering Irish war correspondent for The Times, best known for his influential frontline reporting during the Crimean War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Howard Russell
Target entity description: William Howard Russell was a pioneering Irish war correspondent for The Times, best known for his influential frontline reporting during the Crimean War.
  • A. Joe Rosenthal
    Joe Rosenthal was an American photojournalist best known for his iconic World War II photograph of U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima.
  • B. John Pilger
    John Pilger was an Australian journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker renowned for his investigative reporting and outspoken criticism of Western foreign policy and media.
  • C. Joseph Pulitzer
    Joseph Pulitzer was a Hungarian-American newspaper publisher and journalist whose innovations in mass media and commitment to public service journalism led to the establishment of the prestigious Pulitzer Prizes.
  • D. Walter Lippmann
    Walter Lippmann was an influential American writer, political commentator, and public intellectual whose work on public opinion and democracy shaped 20th-century political thought and journalism.
  • E. Jon Postel
    Jon Postel was an American computer scientist and early Internet pioneer best known for overseeing key Internet protocols and numbering systems, helping shape the modern Internet’s technical foundations.
  • 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_69a257363ffc81909757bde7ab3404da completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25caf59948190bacac41a6ed84cb6 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a35ea461288190bf60a31e8e8ba976 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a35ef7d9148190a0fad8f4bf0de77f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a35f55ced08190ae7c6fce098602be completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:34 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:53 a.m.