Triple

T3121848
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cooke E65201 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Alistair Cooke
Alistair Cooke was a British-American journalist and broadcaster best known for presenting the BBC radio series "Letter from America" and hosting the television program "Masterpiece Theatre."
E329100 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: Alistair Cooke | Statement: [Cooke, hasNotableBearer, Alistair Cooke]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alistair Cooke
Context triple: [Cooke, hasNotableBearer, Alistair Cooke]
  • A. Douglas Clifton Brown
    Douglas Clifton Brown was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during the Second World War and the early postwar period.
  • B. Douglas Edwards
    Douglas Edwards was an American broadcast journalist best known as the first network television news anchor in the United States, leading CBS’s flagship evening newscast in the early years of TV news.
  • C. J. R. Ackerley
    J. R. Ackerley was a British writer and editor best known for his candid memoirs and for serving as the longtime literary editor of The Listener.
  • D. Mel Goodes
    Mel Goodes is a Canadian business executive and philanthropist best known for his leadership in the pharmaceutical industry and his significant support of Queen’s University.
  • E. Hugh Johnson
    Hugh Johnson was an American soldier, lawyer, and government official best known for directing the National Recovery Administration during the New Deal era.
  • 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: Alistair Cooke
Triple: [Cooke, hasNotableBearer, Alistair Cooke]
Generated description
Alistair Cooke was a British-American journalist and broadcaster best known for presenting the BBC radio series "Letter from America" and hosting the television program "Masterpiece Theatre."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alistair Cooke
Target entity description: Alistair Cooke was a British-American journalist and broadcaster best known for presenting the BBC radio series "Letter from America" and hosting the television program "Masterpiece Theatre."
  • A. Douglas Clifton Brown
    Douglas Clifton Brown was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during the Second World War and the early postwar period.
  • B. Douglas Edwards
    Douglas Edwards was an American broadcast journalist best known as the first network television news anchor in the United States, leading CBS’s flagship evening newscast in the early years of TV news.
  • C. J. R. Ackerley
    J. R. Ackerley was a British writer and editor best known for his candid memoirs and for serving as the longtime literary editor of The Listener.
  • D. Mel Goodes
    Mel Goodes is a Canadian business executive and philanthropist best known for his leadership in the pharmaceutical industry and his significant support of Queen’s University.
  • E. Hugh Johnson
    Hugh Johnson was an American soldier, lawyer, and government official best known for directing the National Recovery Administration during the New Deal era.
  • 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_69ad8580c72481909672d37acf647893 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada52ab05c819088204bbb608c837c completed March 8, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b20f6f57fc8190a5f50028792ac394 completed March 12, 2026, 12:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b211397cec8190a4545db3747486b7 completed March 12, 2026, 1:04 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b211a9fcd0819088a11c41280c7668 completed March 12, 2026, 1:06 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:04 p.m.