Triple

T8408774
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject J.B. Marks E198568 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object John
John is the given name of J.B. Marks, a prominent South African communist leader and anti-apartheid activist.
E731428 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: [J.B. Marks, givenName, John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Context triple: [J.B. Marks, givenName, John]
  • A. John
    John is the given name of the influential American financier and banker J. P. Morgan, a central figure in early 20th-century U.S. finance and industry.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of American singer-songwriter and guitarist John Mayer, known for his blues-influenced pop and rock music.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John Winston Spencer-Churchill, the 7th Duke of Marlborough, a prominent 19th-century British aristocrat and politician.
  • D. John
    John is the given first name of the legendary American singer-songwriter and cultural icon Johnny Cash.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Francis Dodge, an American automobile pioneer and co-founder of the Dodge Brothers Company.
  • 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: [J.B. Marks, givenName, John]
Generated description
John is the given name of J.B. Marks, a prominent South African communist leader and anti-apartheid activist.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Target entity description: John is the given name of J.B. Marks, a prominent South African communist leader and anti-apartheid activist.
  • A. John
    John is the given name of John L. Lewis, the influential American labor leader who headed the United Mine Workers of America and helped shape the modern labor movement.
  • B. John
    John is the given first name of the South African-born Nobel Prize–winning novelist J. M. Coetzee.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of the influential American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist John Lee Hooker.
  • D. 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.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Ruskin, the influential 19th-century English art critic, social thinker, and writer.
  • 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_69ce02aab4488190abc63bace296e32a completed April 2, 2026, 5:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce07808098819087e896b87320aefd completed April 2, 2026, 6:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce08759e1c81909c96caf3b571e1ca completed April 2, 2026, 6:11 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:05 p.m.