Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Si Robertson E857344 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Silas Merritt Robertson
Silas Merritt Robertson, better known as "Si" Robertson, is an American television personality, retired U.S. Army soldier, and duck-call maker famous for his comedic role on the reality series "Duck Dynasty."
E2067227 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Silas Merritt Robertson | Statement: [Si Robertson, birthName, Silas Merritt Robertson]
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: Silas Merritt Robertson
Triple: [Si Robertson, birthName, Silas Merritt Robertson]
Generated description
Silas Merritt Robertson, better known as "Si" Robertson, is an American television personality, retired U.S. Army soldier, and duck-call maker famous for his comedic role on the reality series "Duck Dynasty."

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_69f3497472508190b300ebd3fd402367 completed April 30, 2026, 12:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f6e52a6d40819084472f6072c91e9f completed May 3, 2026, 6:03 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a366561dab88190b57e3e1f8bea4535 completed June 20, 2026, 10:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a36660841b8819086965e412110c25f completed June 20, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a3666c5937c8190a41f48157f47f8dc completed June 20, 2026, 10:09 a.m.
Created at: May 1, 2026, 1:38 a.m.