Triple

T4384701
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tracy Kidder E99213 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object John Tracy Kidder
John Tracy Kidder is an American author and Pulitzer Prize–winning literary journalist best known for his deeply reported nonfiction works such as "The Soul of a New Machine" and "Mountains Beyond Mountains."
E436512 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: John Tracy Kidder | Statement: [Tracy Kidder, birthName, John Tracy Kidder]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Tracy Kidder
Context triple: [Tracy Kidder, birthName, John Tracy Kidder]
  • A. John A. Griswold
    John A. Griswold was a 19th-century American industrialist, U.S. Congressman from New York, and prominent figure in Troy’s iron and steel industry.
  • B. Sol Hurok
    Sol Hurok was a renowned 20th-century impresario and arts promoter best known for bringing world-class musicians, dancers, and performing artists to American audiences.
  • C. Andreas Whittam Smith
    Andreas Whittam Smith is a British journalist and newspaper editor best known as the founding editor of the UK national newspaper The Independent.
  • D. George Pardee
    George Pardee was an American physician and Progressive-era politician who served as the 21st governor of California from 1903 to 1907.
  • E. John Ketcham
    John Ketcham is a film producer best known for his work on the biographical sports drama "The Hurricane."
  • 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: John Tracy Kidder
Triple: [Tracy Kidder, birthName, John Tracy Kidder]
Generated description
John Tracy Kidder is an American author and Pulitzer Prize–winning literary journalist best known for his deeply reported nonfiction works such as "The Soul of a New Machine" and "Mountains Beyond Mountains."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Tracy Kidder
Target entity description: John Tracy Kidder is an American author and Pulitzer Prize–winning literary journalist best known for his deeply reported nonfiction works such as "The Soul of a New Machine" and "Mountains Beyond Mountains."
  • A. John A. Griswold
    John A. Griswold was a 19th-century American industrialist, U.S. Congressman from New York, and prominent figure in Troy’s iron and steel industry.
  • B. Sol Hurok
    Sol Hurok was a renowned 20th-century impresario and arts promoter best known for bringing world-class musicians, dancers, and performing artists to American audiences.
  • C. Andreas Whittam Smith
    Andreas Whittam Smith is a British journalist and newspaper editor best known as the founding editor of the UK national newspaper The Independent.
  • D. George Pardee
    George Pardee was an American physician and Progressive-era politician who served as the 21st governor of California from 1903 to 1907.
  • E. John Ketcham
    John Ketcham is a film producer best known for his work on the biographical sports drama "The Hurricane."
  • 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_69b3454f739481909ff6c28331f0c0b9 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b35263970c8190904ee20d81715833 completed March 12, 2026, 11:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5e523cc5c8190b9884f83d433982c completed March 14, 2026, 10:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5eeaf35348190a1611f5b04baed1f completed March 14, 2026, 11:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5ef5c7e0c819080b0e8914dcd6568 completed March 14, 2026, 11:29 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:19 p.m.