Triple

T7665004
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Vlissides E173603 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object John
John is the given name of John Vlissides, a software engineer best known as one of the “Gang of Four” authors of the influential book *Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software*.
E679933 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: John | Statement: [John Vlissides, givenName, John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Context triple: [John Vlissides, givenName, John]
  • A. John
    John is the given first name of the legendary American professional golfer Byron Nelson, one of the sport’s early great champions.
  • B. John
    John is the given first name of J. Edgar Hoover, the long-serving and influential first director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
  • C. John
    John is the given name of the late American comedian and actor John Belushi, famed for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and in films like "Animal House" and "The Blues Brothers."
  • D. John
    John is the given name of John B. Watson, the influential American psychologist who founded behaviorism.
  • E. John
    John is the given first name of the American blues-rock guitarist and singer Johnny Winter.
  • 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: John
Triple: [John Vlissides, givenName, John]
Generated description
John is the given name of John Vlissides, a software engineer best known as one of the “Gang of Four” authors of the influential book *Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software*.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Target entity description: John is the given name of John Vlissides, a software engineer best known as one of the “Gang of Four” authors of the influential book *Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software*.
  • A. John
    John is the given first name of the influential British computer scientist Robin Milner, known for his pioneering work in programming language theory and process calculi.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John McCarthy, the American computer scientist who coined the term "artificial intelligence" and was a pioneer in the field.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John Perry Barlow, the American poet, essayist, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation known for his advocacy of digital rights.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of the renowned British mathematician John H. Conway, known for his work in group theory, number theory, and the invention of the Game of Life.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Venn, the English logician and philosopher best known for introducing Venn diagrams.
  • 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_69c699562484819086752091e3164a27 completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c701bfb67c81908b416802eaf0faac completed March 27, 2026, 10:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c89ac251308190a09814cc469d80fd completed March 29, 2026, 3:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c89cfe02a881909134ea8643049433 completed March 29, 2026, 3:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c89d842b208190b2a3fc6dc16ebf4a completed March 29, 2026, 3:33 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 4 p.m.