Triple

T8251316
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject NMC Fellows Award E192962 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Howard Rheingold
Howard Rheingold is an American writer, critic, and educator best known for his pioneering work on virtual communities, digital culture, and the social implications of new media technologies.
E721544 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: Howard Rheingold | Statement: [NMC Fellows Award, notableRecipient, Howard Rheingold]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Rheingold
Context triple: [NMC Fellows Award, notableRecipient, Howard Rheingold]
  • A. Yochai Benkler
    Yochai Benkler is a legal scholar and theorist known for his work on commons-based peer production, open-source collaboration, and the political economy of the digital age.
  • B. John Battelle
    John Battelle is an American entrepreneur, author, and media executive best known for co-founding Wired magazine and Federated Media Publishing and for his influential work chronicling and shaping the evolution of the internet industry.
  • C. Bob Meyrowitz
    Bob Meyrowitz is an American media executive best known for creating and launching the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), which helped popularize modern mixed martial arts.
  • D. Nicholas Negroponte
    Nicholas Negroponte is an American architect and technology visionary best known as the founding director of the MIT Media Lab and a prominent advocate for the digital revolution.
  • E. Andrew Keen
    Andrew Keen is a British-American entrepreneur and author best known as a prominent critic of Web 2.0 culture and the social and economic impacts of the internet.
  • 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: Howard Rheingold
Triple: [NMC Fellows Award, notableRecipient, Howard Rheingold]
Generated description
Howard Rheingold is an American writer, critic, and educator best known for his pioneering work on virtual communities, digital culture, and the social implications of new media technologies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Rheingold
Target entity description: Howard Rheingold is an American writer, critic, and educator best known for his pioneering work on virtual communities, digital culture, and the social implications of new media technologies.
  • A. Yochai Benkler
    Yochai Benkler is a legal scholar and theorist known for his work on commons-based peer production, open-source collaboration, and the political economy of the digital age.
  • B. John Battelle
    John Battelle is an American entrepreneur, author, and media executive best known for co-founding Wired magazine and Federated Media Publishing and for his influential work chronicling and shaping the evolution of the internet industry.
  • C. Bob Meyrowitz
    Bob Meyrowitz is an American media executive best known for creating and launching the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), which helped popularize modern mixed martial arts.
  • D. Nicholas Negroponte
    Nicholas Negroponte is an American architect and technology visionary best known as the founding director of the MIT Media Lab and a prominent advocate for the digital revolution.
  • E. Andrew Keen
    Andrew Keen is a British-American entrepreneur and author best known as a prominent critic of Web 2.0 culture and the social and economic impacts of the internet.
  • 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_69ca82de7b8c81908d8106f8a53cff9b completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb78c935408190b9196a849a8d3a3e completed March 31, 2026, 7:33 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cd3540a0988190b8e48988279403db completed April 1, 2026, 3:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cd37a71af481909e82aa29ae558c4a completed April 1, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cd4ef034ec8190a4229b21e6088c79 completed April 1, 2026, 4:59 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:48 p.m.