Triple
T6042935
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Hal Foster |
E134592
|
entity |
| Predicate | name |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Harold Rudolf Foster
Harold Rudolf Foster was a pioneering Canadian-American comic strip artist best known for creating and illustrating the influential adventure strip "Prince Valiant."
|
E563149
|
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: Harold Rudolf Foster | Statement: [Hal Foster, name, Harold Rudolf Foster]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harold Rudolf Foster Context triple: [Hal Foster, name, Harold Rudolf Foster]
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A.
Gordon Hodgkin
Gordon Hodgkin was a British painter and printmaker renowned for his vibrant, abstract works that often evoked emotional and remembered interiors.
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B.
Douglas Hadow
Douglas Hadow was a young British mountaineer best known for being among the party on the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, during which he died in a famous climbing accident on the descent.
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C.
Frederic C. Williams
Frederic C. Williams was a British engineer and computer pioneer best known for co-inventing the Williams-Kilburn tube, an early form of computer memory used in some of the first stored-program computers.
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D.
Philip Rogers
Philip Rogers was a 19th-century landowner and early settler whose real estate holdings and development efforts on Chicago’s North Side led to the neighborhood of Rogers Park bearing his name.
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E.
Robert Luce
Robert Luce was an American politician and author who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts in the early 20th century.
- 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: Harold Rudolf Foster Triple: [Hal Foster, name, Harold Rudolf Foster]
Generated description
Harold Rudolf Foster was a pioneering Canadian-American comic strip artist best known for creating and illustrating the influential adventure strip "Prince Valiant."
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harold Rudolf Foster Target entity description: Harold Rudolf Foster was a pioneering Canadian-American comic strip artist best known for creating and illustrating the influential adventure strip "Prince Valiant."
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A.
Gordon Hodgkin
Gordon Hodgkin was a British painter and printmaker renowned for his vibrant, abstract works that often evoked emotional and remembered interiors.
-
B.
Douglas Hadow
Douglas Hadow was a young British mountaineer best known for being among the party on the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, during which he died in a famous climbing accident on the descent.
-
C.
Frederic C. Williams
Frederic C. Williams was a British engineer and computer pioneer best known for co-inventing the Williams-Kilburn tube, an early form of computer memory used in some of the first stored-program computers.
-
D.
Philip Rogers
Philip Rogers was a 19th-century landowner and early settler whose real estate holdings and development efforts on Chicago’s North Side led to the neighborhood of Rogers Park bearing his name.
-
E.
Robert Luce
Robert Luce was an American politician and author who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts in the early 20th century.
- 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_69c00876a69881908088a2626d3b2666 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c056e108fc81908775d176ff960fad |
completed | March 22, 2026, 8:53 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c1139b44888190bfa12d19e99ee673 |
completed | March 23, 2026, 10:19 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c11449a00081908e8e91790079da93 |
completed | March 23, 2026, 10:22 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c114c85c0c8190934adc20ddd1898f |
completed | March 23, 2026, 10:24 a.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:08 p.m.