Triple

T6031322
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pickering E134308 entity
Predicate hasNotableSurnameBearer P30307 FINISHED
Object David Pickering
David Pickering is a British reference book editor and author known for his works on dictionaries, encyclopedias, and guides to literature, theatre, and the arts.
 E564025 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: David Pickering | Statement: [Pickering, hasNotableSurnameBearer, David Pickering]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David Pickering
Context triple: [Pickering, hasNotableSurnameBearer, David Pickering]
  • A. Dan Burton
    Dan Burton is an American Republican politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Indiana and was known for his strong anti-Castro stance and conservative positions.
  • B. Carl Levin
    Carl Levin was a long-serving U.S. Senator from Michigan known for his leadership on national security and defense oversight, including as chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
  • C. T. T. Waterman
    T. T. Waterman was an American anthropologist and ethnographer known for his work documenting Native Californian cultures in the early 20th century.
  • D. Jim Leach
    Jim Leach is an American Republican politician and former U.S. Representative from Iowa known for his work on financial services legislation and government ethics.
  • E. Jim Wright
    Jim Wright was an American Democratic politician from Texas who served as a powerful congressional leader and later Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1980s.
  • 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: David Pickering
Triple: [Pickering, hasNotableSurnameBearer, David Pickering]
Generated description
David Pickering is a British reference book editor and author known for his works on dictionaries, encyclopedias, and guides to literature, theatre, and the arts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David Pickering
Target entity description: David Pickering is a British reference book editor and author known for his works on dictionaries, encyclopedias, and guides to literature, theatre, and the arts.
  • A. Dan Burton
    Dan Burton is an American Republican politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Indiana and was known for his strong anti-Castro stance and conservative positions.
  • B. Carl Levin
    Carl Levin was a long-serving U.S. Senator from Michigan known for his leadership on national security and defense oversight, including as chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
  • C. T. T. Waterman
    T. T. Waterman was an American anthropologist and ethnographer known for his work documenting Native Californian cultures in the early 20th century.
  • D. Jim Leach
    Jim Leach is an American Republican politician and former U.S. Representative from Iowa known for his work on financial services legislation and government ethics.
  • E. Jim Wright
    Jim Wright was an American Democratic politician from Texas who served as a powerful congressional leader and later Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1980s.
  • 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_69c0087515148190a97475d412563865 completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c056af89e881909652957f94317684 completed March 22, 2026, 8:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c113855ad08190b9ff826a2f39c356 completed March 23, 2026, 10:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c114ec9d0c819092de76a6712c482d completed March 23, 2026, 10:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c115552c188190b500d96e86410180 completed March 23, 2026, 10:26 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:08 p.m.