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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.