Triple
T9683003
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Alexander Hitchens |
E234331
|
entity |
| Predicate | father |
P120
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Christopher Hitchens |
E28943
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Christopher Hitchens | Statement: [Alexander Hitchens, father, Christopher Hitchens]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Christopher Hitchens Context triple: [Alexander Hitchens, father, Christopher Hitchens]
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A.
Christopher Hitchens
chosen
Christopher Hitchens was a British-American author, journalist, and polemicist known for his sharp wit, contrarian views, and influential writings on religion, politics, and culture.
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B.
John Derbyshire
John Derbyshire is a British-born American writer and commentator known for his popular mathematics books and controversial political essays.
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C.
Peter Hitchens
Peter Hitchens is a British journalist, author, and conservative commentator known for his columns in The Mail on Sunday and his critiques of modern liberalism and social policy.
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D.
Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan is a British-American writer and political commentator known for his influential essays on politics, culture, and religion and for pioneering political blogging.
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E.
Alexander Cockburn
Alexander Cockburn was a British-born Irish-American political journalist and columnist known for his sharp left-wing commentary and co-editing the newsletter CounterPunch.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca84c99e34819092e5563a7106cfca |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cd9ccdbcc48190a4a9a70b3f419ac2 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 10:31 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d1910192e88190b10409ae62c1c948 |
completed | April 4, 2026, 10:30 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:16 p.m.