Triple

T3667345
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject CBS Building E77791 entity
Predicate engineer P184 FINISHED
Object Fred Severud
Fred Severud was a prominent structural engineer known for his innovative designs on major 20th-century buildings in the United States.
 E378104 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: Fred Severud | Statement: [CBS Building, engineer, Fred Severud]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Fred Severud
Context triple: [CBS Building, engineer, Fred Severud]
  • A. Ron Hansen
    Ron Hansen is an American novelist and essayist best known for his historical fiction, including the novel that inspired the film "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford."
  • B. Harry Kurnitz
    Harry Kurnitz was an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter known for his witty crime and mystery scripts in mid-20th-century Hollywood.
  • C. Ed Dorn
    Ed Dorn was an American poet associated with the Black Mountain school, known for his incisive, often politically charged verse and his long poem "Gunslinger."
  • D. Robert Sauer
    Robert Sauer was a German mathematician known for his contributions to geometry and for his academic leadership in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Harold Norse
    Harold Norse was an American Beat-influenced poet known for his innovative, often autobiographical verse and his involvement in mid-20th-century avant-garde literary circles.
  • 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: Fred Severud
Triple: [CBS Building, engineer, Fred Severud]
Generated description
Fred Severud was a prominent structural engineer known for his innovative designs on major 20th-century buildings in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Fred Severud
Target entity description: Fred Severud was a prominent structural engineer known for his innovative designs on major 20th-century buildings in the United States.
  • A. Ron Hansen
    Ron Hansen is an American novelist and essayist best known for his historical fiction, including the novel that inspired the film "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford."
  • B. Harry Kurnitz
    Harry Kurnitz was an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter known for his witty crime and mystery scripts in mid-20th-century Hollywood.
  • C. Ed Dorn
    Ed Dorn was an American poet associated with the Black Mountain school, known for his incisive, often politically charged verse and his long poem "Gunslinger."
  • D. Robert Sauer
    Robert Sauer was a German mathematician known for his contributions to geometry and for his academic leadership in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Harold Norse
    Harold Norse was an American Beat-influenced poet known for his innovative, often autobiographical verse and his involvement in mid-20th-century avant-garde literary circles.
  • 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_69ad85e083008190b2e1b7085fe500bd completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc402f5dc8190bd8d56a3c06e88f3 completed March 8, 2026, 6:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4884e36108190a19887e81921fe32 completed March 13, 2026, 9:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b48aa728fc8190b1a4e4d6d466efb5 completed March 13, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4aefb58448190b7d34343a5dbb0f6 completed March 14, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:25 p.m.