Triple

T2772502
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Niven E61489 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Niven
Niven is a Scottish-origin surname most famously associated with the English actor David Niven.
 E297279 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: Niven | Statement: [David Niven, familyName, Niven]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Niven
Context triple: [David Niven, familyName, Niven]
  • A. Sagan
    Sagan is a town in present-day Żagań, Poland, historically known as a center where the astronomer Johannes Kepler conducted part of his scientific work.
  • B. Infeld
    Infeld is the surname of Leopold Infeld, a notable Polish theoretical physicist who collaborated with Albert Einstein on the theory of relativity.
  • C. Haldemann
    Haldemann is a surname, likely of Germanic origin, that serves as a variant spelling of the name Haldeman.
  • D. Bardeen
    Bardeen is a surname most notably associated with John Bardeen, the American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
  • E. Guth
    Guth is the surname of Alan Guth, an American theoretical physicist best known for proposing the theory of cosmic inflation in the early universe.
  • 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: Niven
Triple: [David Niven, familyName, Niven]
Generated description
Niven is a Scottish-origin surname most famously associated with the English actor David Niven.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Niven
Target entity description: Niven is a Scottish-origin surname most famously associated with the English actor David Niven.
  • A. Sagan
    Sagan is a town in present-day Żagań, Poland, historically known as a center where the astronomer Johannes Kepler conducted part of his scientific work.
  • B. Infeld
    Infeld is the surname of Leopold Infeld, a notable Polish theoretical physicist who collaborated with Albert Einstein on the theory of relativity.
  • C. Haldemann
    Haldemann is a surname, likely of Germanic origin, that serves as a variant spelling of the name Haldeman.
  • D. Bardeen
    Bardeen is a surname most notably associated with John Bardeen, the American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
  • E. Guth
    Guth is the surname of Alan Guth, an American theoretical physicist best known for proposing the theory of cosmic inflation in the early universe.
  • 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_69ab4b7cd13481909174bca9809ed259 completed March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdd6b9cc48190bd9f7d8d33fe1ec1 completed March 7, 2026, 8:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afc0528304819081ad54a945acd77a completed March 10, 2026, 6:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afc1317a648190b8c7fb834a952a95 completed March 10, 2026, 6:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afc1a64e608190baadbf499e35e73e completed March 10, 2026, 7 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:57 p.m.