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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.