Triple

T384611
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rod Langway E8752 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Roderick Thomas Langway
Roderick Thomas Langway is a Hall of Fame American ice hockey defenseman best known for captaining the Washington Capitals and winning two Norris Trophies in the 1980s.
E145447 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: Roderick Thomas Langway | Statement: [Rod Langway, fullName, Roderick Thomas Langway]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roderick Thomas Langway
Context triple: [Rod Langway, fullName, Roderick Thomas Langway]
  • A. John L. Lumley
    John L. Lumley was a prominent American fluid dynamicist known for his pioneering contributions to the understanding and modeling of turbulence.
  • B. Rudulph Evans
    Rudulph Evans was an American sculptor best known for creating the statue of Thomas Jefferson housed in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • C. Harold Briggs
    Harold Briggs was a British Army officer best known for devising and implementing the Briggs Plan to combat communist insurgency during the Malayan Emergency.
  • D. John William Wallace
    John William Wallace was a 19th-century American lawyer and court reporter best known for serving as the Reporter of Decisions for the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • E. Arthur Whitten Brown
    Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • 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: Roderick Thomas Langway
Triple: [Rod Langway, fullName, Roderick Thomas Langway]
Generated description
Roderick Thomas Langway is a Hall of Fame American ice hockey defenseman best known for captaining the Washington Capitals and winning two Norris Trophies in the 1980s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roderick Thomas Langway
Target entity description: Roderick Thomas Langway is a Hall of Fame American ice hockey defenseman best known for captaining the Washington Capitals and winning two Norris Trophies in the 1980s.
  • A. John L. Lumley
    John L. Lumley was a prominent American fluid dynamicist known for his pioneering contributions to the understanding and modeling of turbulence.
  • B. Rudulph Evans
    Rudulph Evans was an American sculptor best known for creating the statue of Thomas Jefferson housed in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • C. Harold Briggs
    Harold Briggs was a British Army officer best known for devising and implementing the Briggs Plan to combat communist insurgency during the Malayan Emergency.
  • D. John William Wallace
    John William Wallace was a 19th-century American lawyer and court reporter best known for serving as the Reporter of Decisions for the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • E. Arthur Whitten Brown
    Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • 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_69a2e7f47dd08190a4e294ccbbe46cd4 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ec422b808190b6ddf747ef939151 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac995e2f808190a324f2da7a79b836 completed March 7, 2026, 9:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac99e2ba3481908c4f89f653521fb5 completed March 7, 2026, 9:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac9a52005881908182d1c78381f17f completed March 7, 2026, 9:36 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.