Triple
T3277186
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Frank Norris |
E68785
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entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
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FINISHED |
| Object |
Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr.
Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr. was an American novelist and journalist associated with the naturalist movement, best known for works like "McTeague" and "The Octopus."
|
E345393
|
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: Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr. | Statement: [Frank Norris, fullName, Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr. Context triple: [Frank Norris, fullName, Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr.]
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A.
Benjamin Earl Nelson
Benjamin Earl Nelson, better known as Ben E. King, was an American soul and R&B singer famed for his classic hit "Stand by Me."
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B.
John Randolph Tucker
John Randolph Tucker was a 19th-century American lawyer, law professor, and Democratic politician who served as Attorney General of Virginia and later as a U.S. Representative.
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C.
Benjamin Cleveland
Benjamin Cleveland was an American frontiersman and militia colonel best known for his leadership in the Patriot victory at the Battle of Kings Mountain during the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
William Preston Lane Jr.
William Preston Lane Jr. was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as Maryland’s governor from 1947 to 1951 and oversaw the construction of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
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E.
Francis Newton Gifford
Francis Newton Gifford was a prominent American football player and Hall of Famer who became widely known as a longtime sportscaster on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
- 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: Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr. Triple: [Frank Norris, fullName, Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr.]
Generated description
Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr. was an American novelist and journalist associated with the naturalist movement, best known for works like "McTeague" and "The Octopus."
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr. Target entity description: Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr. was an American novelist and journalist associated with the naturalist movement, best known for works like "McTeague" and "The Octopus."
-
A.
Benjamin Earl Nelson
Benjamin Earl Nelson, better known as Ben E. King, was an American soul and R&B singer famed for his classic hit "Stand by Me."
-
B.
John Randolph Tucker
John Randolph Tucker was a 19th-century American lawyer, law professor, and Democratic politician who served as Attorney General of Virginia and later as a U.S. Representative.
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C.
Benjamin Cleveland
Benjamin Cleveland was an American frontiersman and militia colonel best known for his leadership in the Patriot victory at the Battle of Kings Mountain during the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
William Preston Lane Jr.
William Preston Lane Jr. was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as Maryland’s governor from 1947 to 1951 and oversaw the construction of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
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E.
Francis Newton Gifford
Francis Newton Gifford was a prominent American football player and Hall of Famer who became widely known as a longtime sportscaster on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
- 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_69ad859b54f881909bf530d549caf2fd |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adb0128f08819084644f3c8fda2596 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 5:21 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b2e84a3c2c8190908152fc042fcad1 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 4:22 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b2e939460481909743b49e274b693e |
completed | March 12, 2026, 4:26 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b2ecfd3c20819089bc0b2141aee8eb |
completed | March 12, 2026, 4:42 p.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:10 p.m.