Triple

T4396148
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Stephen Jay Gould E99492 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Stephen
Stephen is the given name of Stephen Jay Gould, the influential American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and science writer.
 E436720 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: Stephen | Statement: [Stephen Jay Gould, givenName, Stephen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Stephen
Context triple: [Stephen Jay Gould, givenName, Stephen]
  • A. Stephen
    Stephen is the formal given name of Steve Wozniak, the American computer engineer and co-founder of Apple Inc.
  • B. Stephen
    Stephen is the middle name of Harold Stephen Black, an American electrical engineer known for inventing the negative feedback amplifier.
  • C. Stephen
    Stephen is the full given name of former Scottish footballer and manager Steve Nicol, best known for his successful career with Liverpool FC in the 1980s and early 1990s.
  • D. Stephen
    Stephen is the given first name of English actor, comedian, and writer Steve Coogan.
  • E. Stephen
    Stephen is the first name of Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th president of the United States.
  • 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: Stephen
Triple: [Stephen Jay Gould, givenName, Stephen]
Generated description
Stephen is the given name of Stephen Jay Gould, the influential American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and science writer.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Stephen
Target entity description: Stephen is the given name of Stephen Jay Gould, the influential American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and science writer.
  • A. Stephen
    Stephen is the given first name of Steve Case, the American entrepreneur and co-founder of AOL.
  • B. Stephen
    Stephen is the given name of Stephen G. Breyer, an American jurist and former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • C. Stephen
    Stephen is the given name of Stephen Strasburg, an American professional baseball pitcher known for his career with the Washington Nationals.
  • D. Stephen
    Stephen is the formal given name of Steve Wozniak, the American computer engineer and co-founder of Apple Inc.
  • E. Stephen
    Stephen is the first name of Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th president of the United States.
  • 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_69b345506b408190b0e3dee616738a7d completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b352ab928c81909f4406d5df3e081b completed March 12, 2026, 11:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5e536e1848190a2517ab351adfe48 completed March 14, 2026, 10:46 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, 11:20 p.m.