Triple

T8407807
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pat Oliphant E198543 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Patrick Bruce Oliphant
Patrick Bruce Oliphant is an Australian-born American political cartoonist renowned for his sharp, satirical commentary and influential work in editorial cartooning.
E738359 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: Patrick Bruce Oliphant | Statement: [Pat Oliphant, birthName, Patrick Bruce Oliphant]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Patrick Bruce Oliphant
Context triple: [Pat Oliphant, birthName, Patrick Bruce Oliphant]
  • A. Ronald Norrish
    Ronald Norrish was a British physical chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical kinetics and photochemistry.
  • B. George Murray Smith
    George Murray Smith was a prominent 19th-century British publisher known for founding influential literary periodicals and publishing major Victorian authors.
  • C. John Malcolm
    John Malcolm is the emotionally reserved army major whose strained relationship with his ex-wife forms one of the central storylines in the 1958 British drama film "Separate Tables."
  • D. John Valentine Carruthers
    John Valentine Carruthers is an English guitarist best known for his work in the 1980s with the post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees.
  • E. Philip Herriton
    Philip Herriton is a central character in E.M. Forster's novel "Where Angels Fear to Tread," depicted as a conventional, somewhat repressed Englishman whose experiences in Italy challenge his assumptions and emotional reserve.
  • 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: Patrick Bruce Oliphant
Triple: [Pat Oliphant, birthName, Patrick Bruce Oliphant]
Generated description
Patrick Bruce Oliphant is an Australian-born American political cartoonist renowned for his sharp, satirical commentary and influential work in editorial cartooning.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Patrick Bruce Oliphant
Target entity description: Patrick Bruce Oliphant is an Australian-born American political cartoonist renowned for his sharp, satirical commentary and influential work in editorial cartooning.
  • A. Ronald Norrish
    Ronald Norrish was a British physical chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical kinetics and photochemistry.
  • B. George Murray Smith
    George Murray Smith was a prominent 19th-century British publisher known for founding influential literary periodicals and publishing major Victorian authors.
  • C. John Malcolm
    John Malcolm is the emotionally reserved army major whose strained relationship with his ex-wife forms one of the central storylines in the 1958 British drama film "Separate Tables."
  • D. John Valentine Carruthers
    John Valentine Carruthers is an English guitarist best known for his work in the 1980s with the post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees.
  • E. Philip Herriton
    Philip Herriton is a central character in E.M. Forster's novel "Where Angels Fear to Tread," depicted as a conventional, somewhat repressed Englishman whose experiences in Italy challenge his assumptions and emotional reserve.
  • 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_69ca8310df9c8190b25f16161cca3e41 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb8315a8a8819097f6da11b909b527 completed March 31, 2026, 8:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce4db075c881909083b3384fcde344 completed April 2, 2026, 11:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce4f556a408190b404481a32b2457b completed April 2, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce503737a4819083ebf9f410eac826 completed April 2, 2026, 11:17 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:05 p.m.