Triple

T3295036
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jeremy Piven E69193 entity
Predicate characterPlayed P1507 FINISHED
Object Harry Selfridge
Harry Selfridge was an American-born retail magnate who founded the London department store Selfridges and became a pioneering figure in modern shopping and advertising.
E343478 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: Harry Selfridge | Statement: [Jeremy Piven, characterPlayed, Harry Selfridge]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry Selfridge
Context triple: [Jeremy Piven, characterPlayed, Harry Selfridge]
  • A. J. C. Stearns
    J. C. Stearns was one of the contributing authors to the influential Franck Report on the implications of nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project era.
  • B. Ernest Wyman
    Ernest Wyman is a relatively obscure historical figure primarily known for having been married to the American actress Jane Wyman.
  • C. John James Sainsbury
    John James Sainsbury was a British grocer and businessman who founded the Sainsbury's supermarket chain, one of the United Kingdom's largest and oldest food retailers.
  • D. Henry Colburn
    Henry Colburn was a prominent 19th-century British publisher known for issuing influential works of literature, travel, and science, including early publications by Charles Darwin.
  • E. Walter Livingston
    Walter Livingston was an American lawyer, politician, and Continental Congress delegate from New York who played a significant role in the financial administration of the early United States.
  • 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: Harry Selfridge
Triple: [Jeremy Piven, characterPlayed, Harry Selfridge]
Generated description
Harry Selfridge was an American-born retail magnate who founded the London department store Selfridges and became a pioneering figure in modern shopping and advertising.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry Selfridge
Target entity description: Harry Selfridge was an American-born retail magnate who founded the London department store Selfridges and became a pioneering figure in modern shopping and advertising.
  • A. J. C. Stearns
    J. C. Stearns was one of the contributing authors to the influential Franck Report on the implications of nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project era.
  • B. Ernest Wyman
    Ernest Wyman is a relatively obscure historical figure primarily known for having been married to the American actress Jane Wyman.
  • C. John James Sainsbury
    John James Sainsbury was a British grocer and businessman who founded the Sainsbury's supermarket chain, one of the United Kingdom's largest and oldest food retailers.
  • D. Henry Colburn
    Henry Colburn was a prominent 19th-century British publisher known for issuing influential works of literature, travel, and science, including early publications by Charles Darwin.
  • E. Walter Livingston
    Walter Livingston was an American lawyer, politician, and Continental Congress delegate from New York who played a significant role in the financial administration of the early United States.
  • 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_69ad859e529c8190a404273f53cb487d completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb07661748190bf57469e101c5283 completed March 8, 2026, 5:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b2e86b8e04819091f4a4ae6d6a87ad completed March 12, 2026, 4:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b2e8f6a7c48190bc457f348c3a7179 completed March 12, 2026, 4:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b2e98804b8819097ef1fd498f13c9b completed March 12, 2026, 4:27 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:10 p.m.