Triple

T8450977
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Beautiful Boy E199796 entity
Predicate basedOnAuthor P2806 FINISHED
Object David Sheff
David Sheff is an American journalist and author best known for his memoir "Beautiful Boy," which chronicles his son's struggle with methamphetamine addiction.
E734878 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: David Sheff | Statement: [Beautiful Boy, basedOnAuthor, David Sheff]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Sheff
Context triple: [Beautiful Boy, basedOnAuthor, David Sheff]
  • A. Matthew Salinger
    Matthew Salinger is an American actor and producer, known for his role in the 1990 film "Captain America" and as the son and literary executor of author J. D. Salinger.
  • B. Nick Flynn
    Nick Flynn is an American poet, memoirist, and playwright best known for his autobiographical works exploring family, addiction, and identity, including the memoir that inspired the film "Being Flynn."
  • C. Sarah Neufeld
    Sarah Neufeld is a Canadian violinist and composer best known for her work with the indie rock band Arcade Fire and her experimental solo and collaborative projects.
  • D. Jonathan Unger
    Jonathan Unger is a scholar known for his research and publications on contemporary Chinese society and politics.
  • E. Eyal Waldman
    Eyal Waldman is an Israeli entrepreneur and engineer best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of high-performance networking company Mellanox Technologies.
  • 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: David Sheff
Triple: [Beautiful Boy, basedOnAuthor, David Sheff]
Generated description
David Sheff is an American journalist and author best known for his memoir "Beautiful Boy," which chronicles his son's struggle with methamphetamine addiction.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Sheff
Target entity description: David Sheff is an American journalist and author best known for his memoir "Beautiful Boy," which chronicles his son's struggle with methamphetamine addiction.
  • A. Matthew Salinger
    Matthew Salinger is an American actor and producer, known for his role in the 1990 film "Captain America" and as the son and literary executor of author J. D. Salinger.
  • B. Nick Flynn
    Nick Flynn is an American poet, memoirist, and playwright best known for his autobiographical works exploring family, addiction, and identity, including the memoir that inspired the film "Being Flynn."
  • C. Sarah Neufeld
    Sarah Neufeld is a Canadian violinist and composer best known for her work with the indie rock band Arcade Fire and her experimental solo and collaborative projects.
  • D. Jonathan Unger
    Jonathan Unger is a scholar known for his research and publications on contemporary Chinese society and politics.
  • E. Eyal Waldman
    Eyal Waldman is an Israeli entrepreneur and engineer best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of high-performance networking company Mellanox Technologies.
  • 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_69ca8318231881908fd1bc1c4d45d286 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe44815488190a912d63512e19af0 completed March 31, 2026, 3:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce1dd14484819082f0319455011a22 completed April 2, 2026, 7:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce1eddb9988190a77ab59f2867ad5d completed April 2, 2026, 7:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce1fb9b03c819089976283e1c53ca5 completed April 2, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:09 p.m.