Triple
T23539805
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Howard McNear |
E577708
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entity |
| Predicate | name |
P16
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FINISHED |
| Object | Howard McNear |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Howard McNear | Statement: [Howard McNear, name, Howard McNear]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard McNear Context triple: [Howard McNear, name, Howard McNear]
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A.
Howard McNear
chosen
Howard McNear was an American character actor best known for playing the genial barber Floyd Lawson on the classic television series "The Andy Griffith Show."
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B.
Howard Crosby
Howard Crosby was a 19th-century American Presbyterian minister, educator, and chancellor of New York University known for his religious leadership and scholarly work.
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C.
Fred McCall
Fred McCall was a notable Canadian First World War flying ace and aviation pioneer after whom McCall Field was named.
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D.
Fred Maynard
Fred Maynard was an early 20th-century Aboriginal Australian activist and leader who championed Indigenous rights, land justice, and self-determination.
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E.
Bob Wells
Bob Wells is a real-life van-dwelling nomad, YouTube personality, and advocate for alternative, minimalist living who appears as himself in the film "Nomadland."
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69e245f9d5d08190a4a20004e1784e20 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f1ae1a66b88190811b38523ea606fe |
completed | April 29, 2026, 7:07 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 6:10 p.m.