Triple

T23290529
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject City of Lies E590014 entity
Predicate hasAuthorProfession P938 FINISHED
Object Alafair Burke is a law professor
Alafair Burke is an American crime novelist and law professor known for her contemporary legal thrillers and mystery series.
E1580203 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: Alafair Burke is a law professor | Statement: [City of Lies, hasAuthorProfession, Alafair Burke is a law professor]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alafair Burke is a law professor
Context triple: [City of Lies, hasAuthorProfession, Alafair Burke is a law professor]
  • A. Rebecca Tushnet
    Rebecca Tushnet is a legal scholar and professor best known for her influential work on copyright, trademark, and fanworks, and for co-founding the Organization for Transformative Works.
  • B. Juliette Lemley
    Juliette Lemley is the daughter of French actress and filmmaker Sophie Marceau.
  • C. Caroline Wiess Law
    Caroline Wiess Law was a prominent Houston philanthropist and art patron whose major bequest significantly supported the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
  • D. Jesselyn Radack
    Jesselyn Radack is an American attorney and whistleblower known for exposing government misconduct related to national security and civil liberties.
  • E. Pamela Samuelson
    Pamela Samuelson is a prominent American legal scholar specializing in intellectual property and information law, particularly in the context of digital technologies and the internet.
  • 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: Alafair Burke is a law professor
Triple: [City of Lies, hasAuthorProfession, Alafair Burke is a law professor]
Generated description
Alafair Burke is an American crime novelist and law professor known for her contemporary legal thrillers and mystery series.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alafair Burke is a law professor
Target entity description: Alafair Burke is an American crime novelist and law professor known for her contemporary legal thrillers and mystery series.
  • A. Rebecca Tushnet
    Rebecca Tushnet is a legal scholar and professor best known for her influential work on copyright, trademark, and fanworks, and for co-founding the Organization for Transformative Works.
  • B. Juliette Lemley
    Juliette Lemley is the daughter of French actress and filmmaker Sophie Marceau.
  • C. Caroline Wiess Law
    Caroline Wiess Law was a prominent Houston philanthropist and art patron whose major bequest significantly supported the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
  • D. Jesselyn Radack
    Jesselyn Radack is an American attorney and whistleblower known for exposing government misconduct related to national security and civil liberties.
  • E. Pamela Samuelson
    Pamela Samuelson is a prominent American legal scholar specializing in intellectual property and information law, particularly in the context of digital technologies and the internet.
  • 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_69e25d1af9d88190a0b9b5e8fa608618 completed April 17, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f196cb3fec8190a95255da97dd984e completed April 29, 2026, 5:27 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c4c8c2f9081908123a02dcc37ea30 completed May 19, 2026, 11:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c4ee292f08190a44326d433f37c65 completed May 19, 2026, 11:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c4f796b688190a8971ebd238e08f2 completed May 19, 2026, 11:54 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 5:01 p.m.