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]
  • 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
  • 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."
  • 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.