Triple

T5407758
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hugh Wheeler E120934 entity
Predicate name P16 FINISHED
Object Hugh Wheeler
Hugh Wheeler was a British-born American librettist, playwright, and screenwriter best known for his work on Stephen Sondheim’s musicals such as "A Little Night Music" and "Sweeney Todd."
E520955 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: Hugh Wheeler | Statement: [Hugh Wheeler, name, Hugh Wheeler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hugh Wheeler
Context triple: [Hugh Wheeler, name, Hugh Wheeler]
  • A. Hugh Wheeler
    Hugh Wheeler was a British Army officer best known for his controversial leadership and death during the 1857 Indian Rebellion at Cawnpore.
  • B. Hugh McDowell
    Hugh McDowell was an English cellist best known for his dynamic performances and recordings with the rock band Electric Light Orchestra during the 1970s.
  • C. Richard Dobbs Spaight
    Richard Dobbs Spaight was an American Founding Father from North Carolina who signed the U.S. Constitution and later served as the state's governor and a member of Congress.
  • D. Hugh Clifford
    Hugh Clifford was a British colonial administrator and writer who served as governor in several territories of the British Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Charles P. Cabell
    Charles P. Cabell was a U.S. Air Force general who served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency during the early Cold War era.
  • 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: Hugh Wheeler
Triple: [Hugh Wheeler, name, Hugh Wheeler]
Generated description
Hugh Wheeler was a British-born American librettist, playwright, and screenwriter best known for his work on Stephen Sondheim’s musicals such as "A Little Night Music" and "Sweeney Todd."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hugh Wheeler
Target entity description: Hugh Wheeler was a British-born American librettist, playwright, and screenwriter best known for his work on Stephen Sondheim’s musicals such as "A Little Night Music" and "Sweeney Todd."
  • A. Hugh Wheeler
    Hugh Wheeler was a British Army officer best known for his controversial leadership and death during the 1857 Indian Rebellion at Cawnpore.
  • B. Hugh McDowell
    Hugh McDowell was an English cellist best known for his dynamic performances and recordings with the rock band Electric Light Orchestra during the 1970s.
  • C. Richard Dobbs Spaight
    Richard Dobbs Spaight was an American Founding Father from North Carolina who signed the U.S. Constitution and later served as the state's governor and a member of Congress.
  • D. Hugh Clifford
    Hugh Clifford was a British colonial administrator and writer who served as governor in several territories of the British Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Charles P. Cabell
    Charles P. Cabell was a U.S. Air Force general who served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency during the early Cold War era.
  • 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_69bd46391c0c81909fa484446732b6a3 completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd8793ab3c81909992b257d462a554 completed March 20, 2026, 5:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf411f8f3c81908ca8578a388261c6 completed March 22, 2026, 1:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf42ef2484819088905be590e0399a completed March 22, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf43732118819099eee5dcae3715dc completed March 22, 2026, 1:18 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:05 p.m.