Triple

T17415094
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alan Howard E423468 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Howard
Howard is a common English surname of Anglo-Scottish origin, borne by numerous notable figures in politics, the arts, and public life.
E118997 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: Howard | Statement: [Alan Howard, familyName, Howard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard
Context triple: [Alan Howard, familyName, Howard]
  • A. Howard
    Howard is the given name of the influential American film director, producer, and screenwriter Howard Hawks.
  • B. Howard
    Howard is a young boy who serves as a minor but symbolically important character in the play "Inherit the Wind," representing the town’s impressionable youth amid the evolution-versus-creationism trial.
  • C. Howard
    Howard is one of Sethe’s sons in Toni Morrison’s novel "Beloved," a child whose life is shaped by the trauma and legacy of slavery.
  • D. Howard
    Howard is the middle name of Robert H. Grubbs, the Nobel Prize–winning American chemist renowned for his work on olefin metathesis.
  • E. Howard
    Howard is a character in Kenneth Lonergan's play "The Waverly Gallery," serving as a key figure in the story's exploration of family, memory, and aging.
  • 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: Howard
Triple: [Alan Howard, familyName, Howard]
Generated description
Howard is a common English surname of Anglo-Scottish origin, borne by numerous notable figures in politics, the arts, and public life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard
Target entity description: Howard is a common English surname of Anglo-Scottish origin, borne by numerous notable figures in politics, the arts, and public life.
  • A. Howard chosen
    Howard is a common English surname shared by numerous notable figures across entertainment, politics, and other fields.
  • B. Howard
    Howard is a masculine given name of Old English origin meaning "high guardian" or "noble watchman," borne by numerous notable figures across politics, arts, and academia.
  • C. Howard
    Howard is the middle name of the English astronomer and mathematician G. H. Darwin, son of naturalist Charles Darwin.
  • D. Howard
    Howard is the given name of the influential American film director, producer, and screenwriter Howard Hawks.
  • E. Howard
    Howard is the given first name of English illustrator E. H. Shepard, best known for his classic drawings in "Winnie-the-Pooh" and "The Wind in the Willows."
  • F. None of above.

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_69d889d7d27c819088486ce3f0627fa1 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e44231e29881909695a33aab1d49a2 completed April 19, 2026, 2:47 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01a7ffe00c819081536fb24eaa30d3 completed May 11, 2026, 9:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01a898ceb48190ba3d40c898b17158 completed May 11, 2026, 9:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01a9183410819083c8239e3ce38ea2 completed May 11, 2026, 10:02 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:46 a.m.