Triple
T56069
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Contact |
E1108
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableCharacter |
P1481
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
S. R. Hadden
S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
|
E51621
|
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: S. R. Hadden | Statement: [Contact, notableCharacter, S. R. Hadden]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: S. R. Hadden Context triple: [Contact, notableCharacter, S. R. Hadden]
-
A.
H. G. Balcom
H. G. Balcom was a structural engineer best known for his role in designing and overseeing the framework of major skyscrapers in the early 20th century, including the Empire State Building.
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B.
A. H. Johnson
A. H. Johnson was one of the climbers credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States.
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C.
C. S. Van Winkle
C. S. Van Winkle was an early 19th-century American publisher and printer known for issuing works such as Washington Irving’s "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
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D.
Sidney Verba
Sidney Verba was a prominent American political scientist renowned for his pioneering work on political participation, comparative politics, and civic culture.
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E.
Sidney Darlington
Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
- 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: S. R. Hadden Triple: [Contact, notableCharacter, S. R. Hadden]
Generated description
S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: S. R. Hadden Target entity description: S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
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A.
H. G. Balcom
H. G. Balcom was a structural engineer best known for his role in designing and overseeing the framework of major skyscrapers in the early 20th century, including the Empire State Building.
-
B.
A. H. Johnson
A. H. Johnson was one of the climbers credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States.
-
C.
C. S. Van Winkle
C. S. Van Winkle was an early 19th-century American publisher and printer known for issuing works such as Washington Irving’s "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
-
D.
Sidney Verba
Sidney Verba was a prominent American political scientist renowned for his pioneering work on political participation, comparative politics, and civic culture.
-
E.
Sidney Darlington
Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
- 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_69a248adc5b48190aa8db9fb092fb28a |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:45 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a24b07f4a881909e32115e84da02a3 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:55 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a4176e25408190a99d70dec4919f39 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:39 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a41806e42081909226426d4099b733 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:42 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a418217d588190987a65d2da329b87 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:42 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:50 a.m.