Triple

T17716575
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Elmer E442214 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Elmer Kelton
Elmer Kelton was an American Western novelist renowned for his historically grounded, character-driven stories set in Texas and the American West.
E1283579 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: Elmer Kelton | Statement: [Elmer, hasNotableBearer, Elmer Kelton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elmer Kelton
Context triple: [Elmer, hasNotableBearer, Elmer Kelton]
  • A. A. B. Guthrie Jr.
    A. B. Guthrie Jr. was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning Western novel "The Way West" and his contributions to the literature of the American frontier.
  • B. Willie Morris
    Willie Morris was an American writer and editor best known for his evocative memoirs of Southern life, including the autobiographical work that inspired the film "My Dog Skip."
  • C. Walter Berry
    Walter Berry is a former American basketball star best known for his standout collegiate career at St. John’s University in the mid-1980s and subsequent play in the NBA and overseas.
  • D. E. Stanley Crawford
    E. Stanley Crawford was a prominent American cardiovascular surgeon and academic known for his pioneering work in aortic surgery and contributions to vascular and thoracic surgical techniques.
  • E. Harold Bell Wright
    Harold Bell Wright was an early 20th-century American novelist and former minister best known for his immensely popular inspirational and religious-themed fiction.
  • 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: Elmer Kelton
Triple: [Elmer, hasNotableBearer, Elmer Kelton]
Generated description
Elmer Kelton was an American Western novelist renowned for his historically grounded, character-driven stories set in Texas and the American West.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elmer Kelton
Target entity description: Elmer Kelton was an American Western novelist renowned for his historically grounded, character-driven stories set in Texas and the American West.
  • A. A. B. Guthrie Jr.
    A. B. Guthrie Jr. was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning Western novel "The Way West" and his contributions to the literature of the American frontier.
  • B. Willie Morris
    Willie Morris was an American writer and editor best known for his evocative memoirs of Southern life, including the autobiographical work that inspired the film "My Dog Skip."
  • C. Walter Berry
    Walter Berry is a former American basketball star best known for his standout collegiate career at St. John’s University in the mid-1980s and subsequent play in the NBA and overseas.
  • D. E. Stanley Crawford
    E. Stanley Crawford was a prominent American cardiovascular surgeon and academic known for his pioneering work in aortic surgery and contributions to vascular and thoracic surgical techniques.
  • E. Harold Bell Wright
    Harold Bell Wright was an early 20th-century American novelist and former minister best known for his immensely popular inspirational and religious-themed fiction.
  • 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_69d8b9ec79688190b86bdcef85a7b3aa completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e47481663c8190a1110385e5596ab0 completed April 19, 2026, 6:21 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a02302bd9b08190979ee441035b17bb completed May 11, 2026, 7:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a023192ea9c819096bf6ed8952f21c4 completed May 11, 2026, 7:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a02321a9c6c8190a86ebfdcfa32f786 completed May 11, 2026, 7:46 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:06 a.m.