Triple

T4398915
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Erskine E99563 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object John Erskine
John Erskine was an American educator, author, and musician best known for pioneering the Great Books movement and promoting liberal arts education in the early 20th century.
E442889 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 Erskine | Statement: [Erskine, hasNotableBearer, John Erskine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Erskine
Context triple: [Erskine, hasNotableBearer, John Erskine]
  • A. Thomas Urquhart
    Thomas Urquhart was a 17th-century Scottish writer, translator, and eccentric known for his elaborate prose and early English translation of Rabelais.
  • B. George Knox
    George Knox is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Knox.
  • C. William Kirkpatrick
    William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
  • D. Archibald Campbell
    Archibald Campbell was a British general best known for leading British forces in early 19th-century colonial campaigns, particularly in Southeast Asia.
  • E. David Dickson
    David Dickson was a prominent 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister and theologian known for his influential role in the Covenanter movement and his widely read biblical commentaries.
  • 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 Erskine
Triple: [Erskine, hasNotableBearer, John Erskine]
Generated description
John Erskine was an American educator, author, and musician best known for pioneering the Great Books movement and promoting liberal arts education in the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Erskine
Target entity description: John Erskine was an American educator, author, and musician best known for pioneering the Great Books movement and promoting liberal arts education in the early 20th century.
  • A. Thomas Urquhart
    Thomas Urquhart was a 17th-century Scottish writer, translator, and eccentric known for his elaborate prose and early English translation of Rabelais.
  • B. George Knox
    George Knox is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Knox.
  • C. William Kirkpatrick
    William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
  • D. Archibald Campbell
    Archibald Campbell was a British general best known for leading British forces in early 19th-century colonial campaigns, particularly in Southeast Asia.
  • E. David Dickson
    David Dickson was a prominent 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister and theologian known for his influential role in the Covenanter movement and his widely read biblical commentaries.
  • 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_69b352cc4ab081908bc45d2f76cd4da8 completed March 12, 2026, 11:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b627e47ff48190b5aea21e4af773de completed March 15, 2026, 3:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b628fe10908190978dd0361628f54f completed March 15, 2026, 3:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b629ab52c881909f7fbef6f77b5bc4 completed March 15, 2026, 3:38 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:20 p.m.