Triple

T12170567
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sigma Alpha Mu E289949 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Hyman Jacobson
Hyman Jacobson was an American college student and fraternity leader best known as a founding figure of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity.
E998725 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: Hyman Jacobson | Statement: [Sigma Alpha Mu, founder, Hyman Jacobson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hyman Jacobson
Context triple: [Sigma Alpha Mu, founder, Hyman Jacobson]
  • A. Louis Garfinkle
    Louis Garfinkle was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed Vietnam War drama film "The Deer Hunter."
  • B. Hyman Lachowsky
    Hyman Lachowsky was one of the radical activists prosecuted alongside Jacob Abrams in the landmark 1919 U.S. Supreme Court free speech case Abrams v. United States.
  • C. Herbert Jacobs
    Herbert Jacobs was an American journalist best known as the original client for Frank Lloyd Wright’s first Usonian house, the Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House.
  • D. Hyman Bloom
    Hyman Bloom was a Latvian-born American painter known for his expressive, often mystical figurative works and his influential role in the mid-20th-century Boston Expressionist movement.
  • E. Milt Josefsberg
    Milt Josefsberg was an American comedy writer and producer best known for his work on classic radio and television programs such as "The Jack Benny Program."
  • 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: Hyman Jacobson
Triple: [Sigma Alpha Mu, founder, Hyman Jacobson]
Generated description
Hyman Jacobson was an American college student and fraternity leader best known as a founding figure of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hyman Jacobson
Target entity description: Hyman Jacobson was an American college student and fraternity leader best known as a founding figure of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity.
  • A. Louis Garfinkle
    Louis Garfinkle was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed Vietnam War drama film "The Deer Hunter."
  • B. Hyman Lachowsky
    Hyman Lachowsky was one of the radical activists prosecuted alongside Jacob Abrams in the landmark 1919 U.S. Supreme Court free speech case Abrams v. United States.
  • C. Herbert Jacobs
    Herbert Jacobs was an American journalist best known as the original client for Frank Lloyd Wright’s first Usonian house, the Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House.
  • D. Hyman Bloom
    Hyman Bloom was a Latvian-born American painter known for his expressive, often mystical figurative works and his influential role in the mid-20th-century Boston Expressionist movement.
  • E. Milt Josefsberg
    Milt Josefsberg was an American comedy writer and producer best known for his work on classic radio and television programs such as "The Jack Benny Program."
  • 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_69d6ab4d6c00819095a9a7c35de83cfb completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d915d9659481909c75b12aa836bbf3 completed April 10, 2026, 3:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6717defe48190bc63b83e2c276ebc completed May 2, 2026, 9:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6749c2ddc8190945270e6e5b210dd completed May 2, 2026, 10:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f675c42fec8190b60751c0db88f3b6 completed May 2, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:50 p.m.