Triple

T275285
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Vanderbilt University E5232 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumni P51 FINISHED
Object James Patterson
James Patterson is a prolific American author best known for his numerous bestselling thriller and mystery novels, including the Alex Cross and Women's Murder Club series.
E35903 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: James Patterson | Statement: [Vanderbilt University, hasNotableAlumni, James Patterson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Patterson
Context triple: [Vanderbilt University, hasNotableAlumni, James Patterson]
  • A. Mary Higgins Clark
    Mary Higgins Clark was a bestselling American author renowned for her suspenseful mystery and thriller novels, often featuring strong female protagonists.
  • B. Stephen King
    Stephen King is a prolific American author renowned for his horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, and fantasy novels, many of which have been adapted into successful films and television series.
  • C. James Howe Jr.
    James Howe Jr. was a 17th-century New England colonist known primarily as the husband of Elizabeth Howe, one of the women executed during the Salem witch trials.
  • D. David Home
    David Home is the original birth name of the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume, renowned for his influential works on empiricism, skepticism, and moral philosophy.
  • E. Valeria Wasserman
    Valeria Wasserman is a Brazilian linguist and translator best known as the wife of renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky.
  • 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: James Patterson
Triple: [Vanderbilt University, hasNotableAlumni, James Patterson]
Generated description
James Patterson is a prolific American author best known for his numerous bestselling thriller and mystery novels, including the Alex Cross and Women's Murder Club series.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Patterson
Target entity description: James Patterson is a prolific American author best known for his numerous bestselling thriller and mystery novels, including the Alex Cross and Women's Murder Club series.
  • A. Mary Higgins Clark
    Mary Higgins Clark was a bestselling American author renowned for her suspenseful mystery and thriller novels, often featuring strong female protagonists.
  • B. Stephen King
    Stephen King is a prolific American author renowned for his horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, and fantasy novels, many of which have been adapted into successful films and television series.
  • C. James Howe Jr.
    James Howe Jr. was a 17th-century New England colonist known primarily as the husband of Elizabeth Howe, one of the women executed during the Salem witch trials.
  • D. David Home
    David Home is the original birth name of the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume, renowned for his influential works on empiricism, skepticism, and moral philosophy.
  • E. Valeria Wasserman
    Valeria Wasserman is a Brazilian linguist and translator best known as the wife of renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky.
  • 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_69a257e6c8788190987dfe705ca2912a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25dd1cdf881909c2c9b77b7f88684 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a391506e2881909fa399aab00d3ac9 completed March 1, 2026, 1:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a391bb35bc8190b0c84968c156439b completed March 1, 2026, 1:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a39217ae2c819082fef73a105edf7d completed March 1, 2026, 1:10 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:59 a.m.