Triple

T5731249
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject New York Herald Tribune E126387 entity
Predicate notableColumnist P26052 FINISHED
Object Red Smith
Red Smith was a renowned American sportswriter celebrated for his witty, literate columns and long career at major newspapers in the mid-20th century.
E539460 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: Red Smith | Statement: [New York Herald Tribune, notableColumnist, Red Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Red Smith
Context triple: [New York Herald Tribune, notableColumnist, Red Smith]
  • A. Babe Siebert
    Babe Siebert was a Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player known as a rugged, versatile star of the NHL in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • B. George Plimpton
    George Plimpton was an American journalist, writer, and editor best known for pioneering participatory sports journalism and co-founding The Paris Review.
  • C. Heywood Broun
    Heywood Broun was an influential American journalist, columnist, and social critic of the early 20th century, known for his progressive views and advocacy for labor and civil liberties.
  • D. Greg Gumbel
    Greg Gumbel is an American sportscaster best known for his long tenure with CBS Sports, where he has called NFL, NCAA basketball, and other major sporting events.
  • E. Arthur Kallet
    Arthur Kallet was an American engineer, consumer advocate, and co-founder of the influential product-testing magazine Consumer Reports.
  • 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: Red Smith
Triple: [New York Herald Tribune, notableColumnist, Red Smith]
Generated description
Red Smith was a renowned American sportswriter celebrated for his witty, literate columns and long career at major newspapers in the mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Red Smith
Target entity description: Red Smith was a renowned American sportswriter celebrated for his witty, literate columns and long career at major newspapers in the mid-20th century.
  • A. Babe Siebert
    Babe Siebert was a Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player known as a rugged, versatile star of the NHL in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • B. George Plimpton
    George Plimpton was an American journalist, writer, and editor best known for pioneering participatory sports journalism and co-founding The Paris Review.
  • C. Heywood Broun
    Heywood Broun was an influential American journalist, columnist, and social critic of the early 20th century, known for his progressive views and advocacy for labor and civil liberties.
  • D. Greg Gumbel
    Greg Gumbel is an American sportscaster best known for his long tenure with CBS Sports, where he has called NFL, NCAA basketball, and other major sporting events.
  • E. Arthur Kallet
    Arthur Kallet was an American engineer, consumer advocate, and co-founder of the influential product-testing magazine Consumer Reports.
  • 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_69c0083082288190b7478cead6b5430a completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0335f23c081909b35020801e3ef12 completed March 22, 2026, 6:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c05a906e008190bd2b9a3481733f14 completed March 22, 2026, 9:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c05cabceac819095c4a114220efb1a completed March 22, 2026, 9:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c05d30463481909876ca02516d31cc completed March 22, 2026, 9:20 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:47 p.m.