Triple

T17523748
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alan Le May E426741 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Smoky Joe
Smoky Joe is a Western-themed novel by American author Alan Le May, best known for its gritty portrayal of frontier life and complex character dynamics.
E1274474 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: Smoky Joe | Statement: [Alan Le May, notableWork, Smoky Joe]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Smoky Joe
Context triple: [Alan Le May, notableWork, Smoky Joe]
  • A. Smoky Joe
    Smoky Joe was the nickname of Howard Ellsworth Wood, an American Major League Baseball pitcher known for his time with the Philadelphia Athletics in the early 20th century.
  • B. Smokey Joe Williams
    Smokey Joe Williams was an elite early-20th-century Negro Leagues pitcher renowned for his overpowering fastball and dominance against both Black and white competition.
  • C. Smokey
    Smokey is the wisecracking, weed-smoking best friend in the 1995 comedy film "Friday," portrayed by Chris Tucker.
  • D. Smokey
    Smokey was the longtime nickname of Walter Alston, the Hall of Fame manager who led the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers to multiple World Series titles.
  • E. Smokey
    Smokey is a character mentioned in the lyrics of the jazz song "Minnie the Moocher," often associated with the song’s colorful, narrative world of nightlife and mischief.
  • 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: Smoky Joe
Triple: [Alan Le May, notableWork, Smoky Joe]
Generated description
Smoky Joe is a Western-themed novel by American author Alan Le May, best known for its gritty portrayal of frontier life and complex character dynamics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Smoky Joe
Target entity description: Smoky Joe is a Western-themed novel by American author Alan Le May, best known for its gritty portrayal of frontier life and complex character dynamics.
  • A. Smoky Joe
    Smoky Joe was the nickname of Howard Ellsworth Wood, an American Major League Baseball pitcher known for his time with the Philadelphia Athletics in the early 20th century.
  • B. Smokey Joe Williams
    Smokey Joe Williams was an elite early-20th-century Negro Leagues pitcher renowned for his overpowering fastball and dominance against both Black and white competition.
  • C. Smokey
    Smokey is a character mentioned in the lyrics of the jazz song "Minnie the Moocher," often associated with the song’s colorful, narrative world of nightlife and mischief.
  • D. Smokey
    Smokey was the longtime nickname of Walter Alston, the Hall of Fame manager who led the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers to multiple World Series titles.
  • E. Smokey
    Smokey is the wisecracking, weed-smoking best friend in the 1995 comedy film "Friday," portrayed by Chris Tucker.
  • 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_69d889de677081909b22d2657b1f0292 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e452d4db60819096a03dbc4254850f completed April 19, 2026, 3:58 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01c9452ab08190a0539964b1b90f86 completed May 11, 2026, 12:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01cabea2b48190a690b17a88d45b40 completed May 11, 2026, 12:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01cefa08f8819086cb86ce22193baa completed May 11, 2026, 12:43 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:49 a.m.