Triple

T4043115
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Whittier College E83999 entity
Predicate notableAlumnus P304 FINISHED
Object Tony Strickland
Tony Strickland is an American Republican politician from California who has served in the state legislature and run for several statewide and congressional offices.
 E428160 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: Tony Strickland | Statement: [Whittier College, notableAlumnus, Tony Strickland]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tony Strickland
Context triple: [Whittier College, notableAlumnus, Tony Strickland]
  • A. Ron Strickland
    Ron Strickland is a tough, hot-tempered high school teacher and the central figure in the comedy film "Fist Fight," known for challenging a fellow teacher to an after-school brawl.
  • B. Chris Schenkel
    Chris Schenkel was a prominent American sportscaster known for his long career covering football, bowling, and other major sporting events on national television.
  • C. Don Saleski
    Don Saleski is a former NHL right winger best known for his gritty, physical play with the Philadelphia Flyers during their 1970s "Broad Street Bullies" era.
  • D. Greg Stillson
    Greg Stillson is the ambitious, populist politician and primary antagonist in Stephen King’s novel "The Dead Zone," whose rise to power is foreseen to lead to catastrophic consequences.
  • E. Bob Cmelik
    Bob Cmelik is a computer engineer best known as one of the founders of the innovative microprocessor company Transmeta.
  • 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: Tony Strickland
Triple: [Whittier College, notableAlumnus, Tony Strickland]
Generated description
Tony Strickland is an American Republican politician from California who has served in the state legislature and run for several statewide and congressional offices.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tony Strickland
Target entity description: Tony Strickland is an American Republican politician from California who has served in the state legislature and run for several statewide and congressional offices.
  • A. Ron Strickland
    Ron Strickland is a tough, hot-tempered high school teacher and the central figure in the comedy film "Fist Fight," known for challenging a fellow teacher to an after-school brawl.
  • B. Chris Schenkel
    Chris Schenkel was a prominent American sportscaster known for his long career covering football, bowling, and other major sporting events on national television.
  • C. Don Saleski
    Don Saleski is a former NHL right winger best known for his gritty, physical play with the Philadelphia Flyers during their 1970s "Broad Street Bullies" era.
  • D. Greg Stillson
    Greg Stillson is the ambitious, populist politician and primary antagonist in Stephen King’s novel "The Dead Zone," whose rise to power is foreseen to lead to catastrophic consequences.
  • E. Bob Cmelik
    Bob Cmelik is a computer engineer best known as one of the founders of the innovative microprocessor company Transmeta.
  • 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_69aed930bd5c819083e7dcc14fc44f69 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aefb5b65c08190ba3f340ed18737f8 completed March 9, 2026, 4:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5c6f3796c8190bac5529032419ecc completed March 14, 2026, 8:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5c79491a48190865aaa674baebd9b completed March 14, 2026, 8:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5c80ecc7481908deb061969a82c59 completed March 14, 2026, 8:41 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:37 p.m.