Triple

T6000447
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bill James (pitcher, born 1892) E133580 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object William Lawrence James
William Lawrence James was an early 20th-century American Major League Baseball pitcher, commonly known as Bill James.
E560591 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: William Lawrence James | Statement: [Bill James (pitcher, born 1892), alsoKnownAs, William Lawrence James]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Lawrence James
Context triple: [Bill James (pitcher, born 1892), alsoKnownAs, William Lawrence James]
  • A. William James
    William James was an American philosopher and psychologist, a leading figure in pragmatism and functional psychology, and one of the most influential thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. William James Stillman
    William James Stillman was an American journalist, photographer, diplomat, and art critic known for his work as a war correspondent and for his influential writings on art and politics in the 19th century.
  • C. Stanley Hall
    Stanley Hall is a major research and academic building at the University of California, Berkeley, primarily housing programs in bioengineering and related scientific fields.
  • D. Edward Bradford Titchener
    Edward Bradford Titchener was a British-born psychologist who became a leading figure in early experimental psychology and is best known for developing the school of structuralism in the United States.
  • E. George Herbert Mead
    George Herbert Mead was an American philosopher and social psychologist whose work on symbolic interactionism and the social formation of the self profoundly shaped 20th-century social theory.
  • 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: William Lawrence James
Triple: [Bill James (pitcher, born 1892), alsoKnownAs, William Lawrence James]
Generated description
William Lawrence James was an early 20th-century American Major League Baseball pitcher, commonly known as Bill James.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Lawrence James
Target entity description: William Lawrence James was an early 20th-century American Major League Baseball pitcher, commonly known as Bill James.
  • A. William James
    William James was an American philosopher and psychologist, a leading figure in pragmatism and functional psychology, and one of the most influential thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. William James Stillman
    William James Stillman was an American journalist, photographer, diplomat, and art critic known for his work as a war correspondent and for his influential writings on art and politics in the 19th century.
  • C. Stanley Hall
    Stanley Hall is a major research and academic building at the University of California, Berkeley, primarily housing programs in bioengineering and related scientific fields.
  • D. Edward Bradford Titchener
    Edward Bradford Titchener was a British-born psychologist who became a leading figure in early experimental psychology and is best known for developing the school of structuralism in the United States.
  • E. George Herbert Mead
    George Herbert Mead was an American philosopher and social psychologist whose work on symbolic interactionism and the social formation of the self profoundly shaped 20th-century social theory.
  • 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_69c00872444c8190bfaf1739dcec765c completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c04ee5e7bc8190aaa87605fa7b102e completed March 22, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c1088366f08190bd65374d7a44fbc8 completed March 23, 2026, 9:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c1094d6d408190abde0d2e582c15a5 completed March 23, 2026, 9:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c109c333208190b90911e0cab58377 completed March 23, 2026, 9:37 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:05 p.m.