Triple

T3820139
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Genius (TV series) E84351 entity
Predicate basedOnAuthor P2806 FINISHED
Object Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson is an American biographer, journalist, and professor best known for his bestselling biographies of figures such as Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, and Leonardo da Vinci.
E391817 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: Walter Isaacson | Statement: [Genius (TV series), basedOnAuthor, Walter Isaacson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Isaacson
Context triple: [Genius (TV series), basedOnAuthor, Walter Isaacson]
  • A. Kai Bird
    Kai Bird is an American historian, biographer, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for co-writing the J. Robert Oppenheimer biography "American Prometheus."
  • B. Ron Chernow
    Ron Chernow is an American biographer and historian renowned for his meticulously researched works on figures such as Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and Ulysses S. Grant.
  • C. David McCullough
    David McCullough was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American historian and author renowned for his richly detailed biographies of U.S. presidents and major works of narrative history.
  • D. Michael Lewis
    Michael Lewis is an American musician best known as a multi-instrumentalist and saxophonist active in indie rock and jazz-influenced projects.
  • E. Alec Ross
    Alec Ross was a British actor and the first husband of actress Sheila Hancock, known for his work on stage and screen before his early death from esophageal cancer.
  • 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: Walter Isaacson
Triple: [Genius (TV series), basedOnAuthor, Walter Isaacson]
Generated description
Walter Isaacson is an American biographer, journalist, and professor best known for his bestselling biographies of figures such as Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, and Leonardo da Vinci.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Isaacson
Target entity description: Walter Isaacson is an American biographer, journalist, and professor best known for his bestselling biographies of figures such as Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, and Leonardo da Vinci.
  • A. Kai Bird
    Kai Bird is an American historian, biographer, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for co-writing the J. Robert Oppenheimer biography "American Prometheus."
  • B. Ron Chernow
    Ron Chernow is an American biographer and historian renowned for his meticulously researched works on figures such as Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and Ulysses S. Grant.
  • C. David McCullough
    David McCullough was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American historian and author renowned for his richly detailed biographies of U.S. presidents and major works of narrative history.
  • D. Michael Lewis
    Michael Lewis is an American musician best known as a multi-instrumentalist and saxophonist active in indie rock and jazz-influenced projects.
  • E. Alec Ross
    Alec Ross was a British actor and the first husband of actress Sheila Hancock, known for his work on stage and screen before his early death from esophageal cancer.
  • 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_69aed931f5908190be2c07af66d4df25 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeea61a63c819086e16b89d2ea2157 completed March 9, 2026, 3:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4fb4998248190b4174dd80a8e790c completed March 14, 2026, 6:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4ffcf7e24819098cf2e46b92bed4a completed March 14, 2026, 6:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b500596e308190a31e44c24de3f31d completed March 14, 2026, 6:29 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:17 p.m.