Triple

T9911690
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Yellow Book E185159 entity
Predicate notableContributor P304 FINISHED
Object John Davidson
John Davidson was a Scottish poet and playwright of the late 19th century associated with the Decadent and Symbolist movements.
 E830028 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 Davidson | Statement: [The Yellow Book, notableContributor, John Davidson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Davidson
Context triple: [The Yellow Book, notableContributor, John Davidson]
  • A. John Davidson
    John Davidson is a former NHL goaltender who became a prominent American hockey broadcaster and television analyst.
  • B. John Davidson
    John Davidson is an American television personality, actor, and singer best known for hosting popular game shows and variety programs from the 1960s through the 1990s.
  • C. John Davidson
    John Davidson was a Scottish-born botanist and educator who became British Columbia’s first provincial botanist and established the UBC Botanical Garden as a center for plant research and public education.
  • D. Dwight Hansen
    Dwight Hansen is the abusive and manipulative stepfather figure in Tobias Wolff’s memoir and its film adaptation "This Boy’s Life."
  • E. Jerry York
    Jerry York is a legendary American college ice hockey coach best known for leading Boston College to multiple NCAA championships and becoming the winningest coach in NCAA hockey history.
  • 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 Davidson
Triple: [The Yellow Book, notableContributor, John Davidson]
Generated description
John Davidson was a Scottish poet and playwright of the late 19th century associated with the Decadent and Symbolist movements.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Davidson
Target entity description: John Davidson was a Scottish poet and playwright of the late 19th century associated with the Decadent and Symbolist movements.
  • A. John Davidson
    John Davidson is a former NHL goaltender who became a prominent American hockey broadcaster and television analyst.
  • B. John Davidson
    John Davidson is an American television personality, actor, and singer best known for hosting popular game shows and variety programs from the 1960s through the 1990s.
  • C. John Davidson
    John Davidson was a Scottish-born botanist and educator who became British Columbia’s first provincial botanist and established the UBC Botanical Garden as a center for plant research and public education.
  • D. Dwight Hansen
    Dwight Hansen is the abusive and manipulative stepfather figure in Tobias Wolff’s memoir and its film adaptation "This Boy’s Life."
  • E. Jerry York
    Jerry York is a legendary American college ice hockey coach best known for leading Boston College to multiple NCAA championships and becoming the winningest coach in NCAA hockey history.
  • 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_69ca8296165881908ca4750701af1f29 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb5391b8081908094b88cdde4b55a completed April 2, 2026, 12:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d228a405908190ad63ebd659779ed7 completed April 5, 2026, 9:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d229a1abe08190bf28abfc69ce2d64 completed April 5, 2026, 9:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d22a3b87c08190b486eb221bec3465 completed April 5, 2026, 9:24 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:41 p.m.