Triple

T2474874
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Howard Ashman E55063 entity
Predicate coFounded P104 FINISHED
Object Off-Off-Broadway company WPA Theatre
The Off-Off-Broadway company WPA Theatre was an influential New York nonprofit theater known for developing innovative new works and launching the careers of prominent artists, including co-founder Howard Ashman.
 E270872 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: Off-Off-Broadway company WPA Theatre | Statement: [Howard Ashman, coFounded, Off-Off-Broadway company WPA Theatre]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Off-Off-Broadway company WPA Theatre
Context triple: [Howard Ashman, coFounded, Off-Off-Broadway company WPA Theatre]
  • A. Off-Off-Broadway
    Off-Off-Broadway refers to New York City’s small, often experimental and low-budget theater productions staged in intimate venues outside the traditional Broadway and Off-Broadway circuits.
  • B. Lookingglass Theatre Company
    Lookingglass Theatre Company is a Chicago-based ensemble theater known for its visually inventive, physically dynamic productions and bold adaptations of classic and contemporary works.
  • C. LAByrinth Theater Company
    LAByrinth Theater Company is a New York City–based ensemble theater group known for developing and producing bold, collaborative new works, often involving prominent actors like Philip Seymour Hoffman.
  • D. Atlantic Theater Company
    Atlantic Theater Company is an Off-Broadway theater company in New York City known for producing innovative new plays and fostering contemporary American playwrights.
  • E. La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
    La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club is a pioneering off-off-Broadway theater in New York City renowned for nurturing experimental and avant-garde performance and launching the careers of numerous influential playwrights and artists.
  • 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: Off-Off-Broadway company WPA Theatre
Triple: [Howard Ashman, coFounded, Off-Off-Broadway company WPA Theatre]
Generated description
The Off-Off-Broadway company WPA Theatre was an influential New York nonprofit theater known for developing innovative new works and launching the careers of prominent artists, including co-founder Howard Ashman.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Off-Off-Broadway company WPA Theatre
Target entity description: The Off-Off-Broadway company WPA Theatre was an influential New York nonprofit theater known for developing innovative new works and launching the careers of prominent artists, including co-founder Howard Ashman.
  • A. Off-Off-Broadway
    Off-Off-Broadway refers to New York City’s small, often experimental and low-budget theater productions staged in intimate venues outside the traditional Broadway and Off-Broadway circuits.
  • B. Lookingglass Theatre Company
    Lookingglass Theatre Company is a Chicago-based ensemble theater known for its visually inventive, physically dynamic productions and bold adaptations of classic and contemporary works.
  • C. LAByrinth Theater Company
    LAByrinth Theater Company is a New York City–based ensemble theater group known for developing and producing bold, collaborative new works, often involving prominent actors like Philip Seymour Hoffman.
  • D. Atlantic Theater Company
    Atlantic Theater Company is an Off-Broadway theater company in New York City known for producing innovative new plays and fostering contemporary American playwrights.
  • E. La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
    La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club is a pioneering off-off-Broadway theater in New York City renowned for nurturing experimental and avant-garde performance and launching the careers of numerous influential playwrights and artists.
  • 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_69ab49e279e88190ab10d7248aea9d11 completed March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd14b725c81908256c4d3bb6c5173 completed March 7, 2026, 7:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af17a8d87c819084637958a5dc4028 completed March 9, 2026, 6:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af1b3bb8908190a48c6190f9f9a488 completed March 9, 2026, 7:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af1c404d248190b4444eaed46e63da completed March 9, 2026, 7:15 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:45 p.m.