Triple

T7050394
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Gleick E163749 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Gleick
Gleick is the surname of James Gleick, an American author and science historian known for popularizing complex scientific ideas such as chaos theory.
 E639443 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: Gleick | Statement: [James Gleick, familyName, Gleick]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Gleick
Context triple: [James Gleick, familyName, Gleick]
  • A. Gould
    Gould is a surname most notably associated with Jay Gould, the influential 19th-century American railroad magnate and financier.
  • B. Leacock-Pennebaker
    Leacock-Pennebaker was a pioneering American documentary film production company known for its influential cinéma vérité works in the 1960s.
  • C. Fogel
    Fogel is a surname of likely Ashkenazi Jewish origin borne by various individuals, including the actress Barbara Bain (born Millicent Fogel).
  • D. Thagard
    Thagard is the surname of Norman E. Thagard, an American physician, former NASA astronaut, and the first American to fly on a Russian spacecraft.
  • E. Foucault's Pendulum
    Foucault's Pendulum is a complex postmodern novel by Umberto Eco that intertwines conspiracy theories, esoteric knowledge, and metafictional puzzles in a narrative about editors who invent a grand occult plot.
  • 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: Gleick
Triple: [James Gleick, familyName, Gleick]
Generated description
Gleick is the surname of James Gleick, an American author and science historian known for popularizing complex scientific ideas such as chaos theory.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Gleick
Target entity description: Gleick is the surname of James Gleick, an American author and science historian known for popularizing complex scientific ideas such as chaos theory.
  • A. Gould
    Gould is a surname most notably associated with Jay Gould, the influential 19th-century American railroad magnate and financier.
  • B. Leacock-Pennebaker
    Leacock-Pennebaker was a pioneering American documentary film production company known for its influential cinéma vérité works in the 1960s.
  • C. Fogel
    Fogel is a surname of likely Ashkenazi Jewish origin borne by various individuals, including the actress Barbara Bain (born Millicent Fogel).
  • D. Thagard
    Thagard is the surname of Norman E. Thagard, an American physician, former NASA astronaut, and the first American to fly on a Russian spacecraft.
  • E. Foucault's Pendulum
    Foucault's Pendulum is a complex postmodern novel by Umberto Eco that intertwines conspiracy theories, esoteric knowledge, and metafictional puzzles in a narrative about editors who invent a grand occult plot.
  • 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_69c6885f598c8190b6b6495c59d8d962 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e24e7e20819099dc8f7fa37c4491 completed March 27, 2026, 8:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7888bba9c8190b6414b56e5588ec0 completed March 28, 2026, 7:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c788f292a08190bf3543ecfc245d12 completed March 28, 2026, 7:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c789a6ea988190ad2db2442f0a5e8f completed March 28, 2026, 7:56 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:37 p.m.