Triple

T352505
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Columbia Law School E7471 entity
Predicate notableAlumni P51 FINISHED
Object Michael I. Sovern
Michael I. Sovern was an influential American legal scholar and academic leader who served as president of Columbia University and was known for his work on labor law and higher education policy.
E108473 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: Michael I. Sovern | Statement: [Columbia Law School, notableAlumni, Michael I. Sovern]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael I. Sovern
Context triple: [Columbia Law School, notableAlumni, Michael I. Sovern]
  • A. Thomas Blatt
    Thomas Blatt was a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, writer, and speaker best known for his escape from the Sobibor extermination camp and his later efforts to document its history.
  • B. Joseph J. Katz
    Joseph J. Katz was an American chemist known for his work on nuclear chemistry and his contributions to the Manhattan Project and later research at Argonne National Laboratory.
  • C. Bernard M. Gordon
    Bernard M. Gordon is an American engineer, inventor, and philanthropist known for pioneering work in high-speed analog-to-digital conversion and for major contributions to engineering education.
  • D. Daniel H. Weiss
    Daniel H. Weiss is an American art historian and academic leader who served as president and CEO of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • E. David B. Cornstein
    David B. Cornstein is an American businessman and Republican political appointee who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary under President Donald Trump.
  • 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: Michael I. Sovern
Triple: [Columbia Law School, notableAlumni, Michael I. Sovern]
Generated description
Michael I. Sovern was an influential American legal scholar and academic leader who served as president of Columbia University and was known for his work on labor law and higher education policy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael I. Sovern
Target entity description: Michael I. Sovern was an influential American legal scholar and academic leader who served as president of Columbia University and was known for his work on labor law and higher education policy.
  • A. Thomas Blatt
    Thomas Blatt was a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, writer, and speaker best known for his escape from the Sobibor extermination camp and his later efforts to document its history.
  • B. Joseph J. Katz
    Joseph J. Katz was an American chemist known for his work on nuclear chemistry and his contributions to the Manhattan Project and later research at Argonne National Laboratory.
  • C. Bernard M. Gordon
    Bernard M. Gordon is an American engineer, inventor, and philanthropist known for pioneering work in high-speed analog-to-digital conversion and for major contributions to engineering education.
  • D. Daniel H. Weiss
    Daniel H. Weiss is an American art historian and academic leader who served as president and CEO of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • E. David B. Cornstein
    David B. Cornstein is an American businessman and Republican political appointee who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary under President Donald Trump.
  • 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_69a2e7e696948190bebc966535995e45 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2eb7f1be88190964ddcbb6a05f021 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7cf473e48819095390a5904429a9c completed March 4, 2026, 6:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7d063fe8c81909a32afaf2798297f completed March 4, 2026, 6:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7d0c6a14c81909d98c648aef4e87b completed March 4, 2026, 6:27 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.