Triple

T3495423
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Cairo Gang E73838 entity
Predicate hasLeader P981 FINISHED
Object Emmett Kelly
Emmett Kelly was an American circus performer best known for creating and portraying the iconic sad-faced clown character "Weary Willie."
E362388 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: Emmett Kelly | Statement: [The Cairo Gang, hasLeader, Emmett Kelly]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Emmett Kelly
Context triple: [The Cairo Gang, hasLeader, Emmett Kelly]
  • A. Nat Hickey
    Nat Hickey was an early professional basketball player and coach best known for briefly appearing in an NBA game at age 45, making him the oldest player in league history.
  • B. Tom Canty
    Tom Canty is the impoverished London boy who swaps identities with Prince Edward in Mark Twain’s novel "The Prince and the Pauper," highlighting themes of class and social injustice.
  • C. Frank Heart
    Frank Heart was an American computer engineer best known for leading the team that built the first Interface Message Processors, the packet-switching nodes that formed the backbone of the early ARPANET and laid groundwork for the modern internet.
  • D. Mae Costello
    Mae Costello was an American silent film actress active in the early 20th century and the mother of actress Helene Costello.
  • E. Dean O’Banion
    Dean O’Banion was a prominent Irish-American mobster and leader of Chicago’s North Side Gang during the Prohibition 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: Emmett Kelly
Triple: [The Cairo Gang, hasLeader, Emmett Kelly]
Generated description
Emmett Kelly was an American circus performer best known for creating and portraying the iconic sad-faced clown character "Weary Willie."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Emmett Kelly
Target entity description: Emmett Kelly was an American circus performer best known for creating and portraying the iconic sad-faced clown character "Weary Willie."
  • A. Nat Hickey
    Nat Hickey was an early professional basketball player and coach best known for briefly appearing in an NBA game at age 45, making him the oldest player in league history.
  • B. Tom Canty
    Tom Canty is the impoverished London boy who swaps identities with Prince Edward in Mark Twain’s novel "The Prince and the Pauper," highlighting themes of class and social injustice.
  • C. Frank Heart
    Frank Heart was an American computer engineer best known for leading the team that built the first Interface Message Processors, the packet-switching nodes that formed the backbone of the early ARPANET and laid groundwork for the modern internet.
  • D. Mae Costello
    Mae Costello was an American silent film actress active in the early 20th century and the mother of actress Helene Costello.
  • E. Dean O’Banion
    Dean O’Banion was a prominent Irish-American mobster and leader of Chicago’s North Side Gang during the Prohibition 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_69ad85cdb6e48190a335d412b9194ed8 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbbb06fd08190b6c1fadfce4148f0 completed March 8, 2026, 6:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b373c5e1248190a4c42805fb9363f0 completed March 13, 2026, 2:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b37442228c8190bc45782becd0642c completed March 13, 2026, 2:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b374bd5cdc81908a924a9f8b641a8d completed March 13, 2026, 2:21 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:18 p.m.