Triple

T11983962
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Scott Alexander E285229 entity
Predicate name P16 FINISHED
Object Scott Alexander
Scott Alexander is the pen name of an American psychiatrist and influential blogger best known for his long-form essays on psychology, rationality, politics, and culture on the blogs Slate Star Codex and Astral Codex Ten.
E958247 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: Scott Alexander | Statement: [Scott Alexander, name, Scott Alexander]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Scott Alexander
Context triple: [Scott Alexander, name, Scott Alexander]
  • A. Scott Alexander
    Scott Alexander is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing biographical films such as "Ed Wood," "The People vs. Larry Flynt," and "Man on the Moon."
  • B. Peter Dvorsky
    Peter Dvorsky was a Canadian actor known for his supporting roles in film and television, including appearances in genre works like David Cronenberg’s "Videodrome."
  • C. Jason Hart
    Jason Hart is a former American professional basketball player who later became a college coach.
  • D. Andrew Largeman
    Andrew Largeman is the introspective, emotionally numb young man who returns to his New Jersey hometown and confronts his past and relationships in the film "Garden State."
  • E. Robin Hanson
    Robin Hanson is an American economist and futurist known for his work on prediction markets, social science, and thought-provoking analyses of topics like the Fermi paradox and future 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: Scott Alexander
Triple: [Scott Alexander, name, Scott Alexander]
Generated description
Scott Alexander is the pen name of an American psychiatrist and influential blogger best known for his long-form essays on psychology, rationality, politics, and culture on the blogs Slate Star Codex and Astral Codex Ten.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Scott Alexander
Target entity description: Scott Alexander is the pen name of an American psychiatrist and influential blogger best known for his long-form essays on psychology, rationality, politics, and culture on the blogs Slate Star Codex and Astral Codex Ten.
  • A. Scott Alexander
    Scott Alexander is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing biographical films such as "Ed Wood," "The People vs. Larry Flynt," and "Man on the Moon."
  • B. Peter Dvorsky
    Peter Dvorsky was a Canadian actor known for his supporting roles in film and television, including appearances in genre works like David Cronenberg’s "Videodrome."
  • C. Jason Hart
    Jason Hart is a former American professional basketball player who later became a college coach.
  • D. Andrew Largeman
    Andrew Largeman is the introspective, emotionally numb young man who returns to his New Jersey hometown and confronts his past and relationships in the film "Garden State."
  • E. Robin Hanson
    Robin Hanson is an American economist and futurist known for his work on prediction markets, social science, and thought-provoking analyses of topics like the Fermi paradox and future 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_69d6ab44a77c8190a652f4b27164e4ef completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d903973c848190aac871d6dfecc74b completed April 10, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f472286edc8190ac72d7dd2b646c91 completed May 1, 2026, 9:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f47b7c5af08190ab0bff1232530a0c completed May 1, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f47dd51e648190bddd41766221e22d completed May 1, 2026, 10:17 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:46 p.m.