Triple

T3277186
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Frank Norris E68785 entity
Predicate fullName P16 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.]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.