Triple

T8982421
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Howard Green E214563 entity
Predicate precededBy P97 FINISHED
Object Sidney Earle Smith
Sidney Earle Smith was a Canadian academic and politician who served as president of the University of Toronto and later as Secretary of State for External Affairs.
 E825677 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: Sidney Earle Smith | Statement: [Howard Green, precededBy, Sidney Earle Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sidney Earle Smith
Context triple: [Howard Green, precededBy, Sidney Earle Smith]
  • A. Robert Weston Smith
    Robert Weston Smith was an influential American disc jockey and radio personality best known for his gravelly voice and larger-than-life on-air persona "Wolfman Jack."
  • B. Frederick Wallace Smith
    Frederick Wallace Smith is an American businessman best known as the founder, chairman, and former CEO of FedEx Corporation.
  • C. Willard Carroll Smith Jr.
    Willard Carroll Smith Jr. is an American actor, rapper, and producer widely known for his roles in film and television, including "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" and numerous blockbuster movies.
  • D. Stanford Leonard Smith
    Stanford Leonard "Stan" Smith is a fictional CIA agent and the overzealous, conservative patriarch of the Smith family in the animated television series "American Dad!".
  • E. Osborne Earl Smith
    Osborne Earl Smith is a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball shortstop, widely regarded as one of the greatest defensive players in the sport’s history, best known for his career with the St. Louis Cardinals.
  • 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: Sidney Earle Smith
Triple: [Howard Green, precededBy, Sidney Earle Smith]
Generated description
Sidney Earle Smith was a Canadian academic and politician who served as president of the University of Toronto and later as Secretary of State for External Affairs.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sidney Earle Smith
Target entity description: Sidney Earle Smith was a Canadian academic and politician who served as president of the University of Toronto and later as Secretary of State for External Affairs.
  • A. Robert Weston Smith
    Robert Weston Smith was an influential American disc jockey and radio personality best known for his gravelly voice and larger-than-life on-air persona "Wolfman Jack."
  • B. Frederick Wallace Smith
    Frederick Wallace Smith is an American businessman best known as the founder, chairman, and former CEO of FedEx Corporation.
  • C. Willard Carroll Smith Jr.
    Willard Carroll Smith Jr. is an American actor, rapper, and producer widely known for his roles in film and television, including "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" and numerous blockbuster movies.
  • D. Stanford Leonard Smith
    Stanford Leonard "Stan" Smith is a fictional CIA agent and the overzealous, conservative patriarch of the Smith family in the animated television series "American Dad!".
  • E. Osborne Earl Smith
    Osborne Earl Smith is a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball shortstop, widely regarded as one of the greatest defensive players in the sport’s history, best known for his career with the St. Louis Cardinals.
  • 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_69ca839ea8b88190922c6a326ffcc0d3 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc67a891e881909e4b84ed82491651 completed April 1, 2026, 12:32 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1e3d6191c8190adb41feec1bfa76e completed April 5, 2026, 4:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1e5204f748190b1f56ee5469828a2 completed April 5, 2026, 4:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1e598243481909278cb3c911ce3db completed April 5, 2026, 4:31 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:03 p.m.