Triple
T8997926
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Metamagical Themas |
E214965
|
entity |
| Predicate | predecessorColumnAuthor |
P85597
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Martin Gardner |
E6349
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Martin Gardner | Statement: [Metamagical Themas, predecessorColumnAuthor, Martin Gardner]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Martin Gardner Context triple: [Metamagical Themas, predecessorColumnAuthor, Martin Gardner]
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A.
Martin Gardner
chosen
Martin Gardner was an American popular mathematics and science writer, skeptic, and magician known for his long-running "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American and his influential work debunking pseudoscience.
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B.
Raymond Smullyan
Raymond Smullyan was an American logician, mathematician, and puzzle creator renowned for his engaging logic puzzles, recreational mathematics books, and popular expositions of Gödel’s incompleteness theorems.
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C.
John H. Conway
John H. Conway was a British mathematician renowned for his work in group theory, number theory, and recreational mathematics, including the invention of the cellular automaton "Game of Life."
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D.
John Conway
John Conway is a retired Scottish footballer known for playing as a winger for clubs including Celtic and Sheffield United during the late 1960s and 1970s.
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E.
Melvin Gardner
Melvin Gardner was the brother of famed American actress Ava Gardner and a member of the Gardner family from North Carolina.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: predecessorColumnAuthor Context triple: [Metamagical Themas, predecessorColumnAuthor, Martin Gardner]
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A.
predecessorName
Indicates that the value is the name of an entity that directly precedes another in an ordered sequence or lineage.
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B.
predecessorUser
Indicates that one user previously held a role, position, or state that is now held by another user, making the first user the predecessor of the second.
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C.
predecessor
Indicates that one entity comes before another in an ordered sequence or succession.
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D.
predecessorTitleHolder
Indicates that one entity previously held a particular title or position before another entity.
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E.
literaryPredecessor
Indicates that one work of literature precedes and influences another in a historically or artistically significant way.
- 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_69ca83a05c608190bdfdbdb25e994b39 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cc68e0d3588190bdab0e2b86b09228 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 12:37 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cfd0d586c881909090b424f6fd036f |
completed | April 3, 2026, 2:38 p.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69cc5edd6cb48190b4fc6d6ca0418056 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 11:55 p.m. |
| PDg | Predicate description generation | batch_69cc5f6dec4081909379bd57c02a5710 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 11:57 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:05 p.m.