Triple

T789377
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Clark Kerr E16876 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object Alexander Kerr
Alexander Kerr is known primarily as the son of influential American academic and former University of California president Clark Kerr.
E157865 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: Alexander Kerr | Statement: [Clark Kerr, child, Alexander Kerr]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Kerr
Context triple: [Clark Kerr, child, Alexander Kerr]
  • A. William Kirkpatrick
    William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
  • B. Alexander McDougall
    Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
  • C. Robert Stevenson
    Robert Stevenson was a prominent Scottish civil engineer best known for designing and building numerous lighthouses around the Scottish coast in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • D. Arthur Whitten Brown
    Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • E. Alan Cunningham
    Alan Cunningham was a British Army general best known for leading Eighth Army forces in the North African campaign during World War II.
  • 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: Alexander Kerr
Triple: [Clark Kerr, child, Alexander Kerr]
Generated description
Alexander Kerr is known primarily as the son of influential American academic and former University of California president Clark Kerr.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Kerr
Target entity description: Alexander Kerr is known primarily as the son of influential American academic and former University of California president Clark Kerr.
  • A. William Kirkpatrick
    William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
  • B. Alexander McDougall
    Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
  • C. Robert Stevenson
    Robert Stevenson was a prominent Scottish civil engineer best known for designing and building numerous lighthouses around the Scottish coast in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • D. Arthur Whitten Brown
    Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • E. Alan Cunningham
    Alan Cunningham was a British Army general best known for leading Eighth Army forces in the North African campaign during World War II.
  • 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_69a4936cb7448190914f5fe4b8d81607 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a7841b0c8190859ecd247e32c6ec completed March 1, 2026, 8:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acd46422408190911e6eaec5866fe8 completed March 8, 2026, 1:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acd4fade9881908ed8e4598f4821f6 completed March 8, 2026, 1:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acd55b90608190a5ff734af6264ab5 completed March 8, 2026, 1:48 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.