Triple

T17796712
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Charles Collingwood E444310 entity
Predicate colleague P398 FINISHED
Object Eric Sevareid
Eric Sevareid was a prominent American broadcast journalist and one of the famed World War II correspondents for CBS News under Edward R. Murrow.
E1289750 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: Eric Sevareid | Statement: [Charles Collingwood, colleague, Eric Sevareid]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eric Sevareid
Context triple: [Charles Collingwood, colleague, Eric Sevareid]
  • A. Edward R. Murrow
    Edward R. Murrow was a pioneering American broadcast journalist renowned for his World War II radio reports and his influential television exposés that challenged McCarthyism.
  • B. George Gellhorn
    George Gellhorn was a German-born gynecologist and medical researcher, best known as the father of American war correspondent and author Martha Gellhorn.
  • C. Herbert L. Matthews
    Herbert L. Matthews was an influential American journalist and foreign correspondent for The New York Times, best known for his reporting on revolutionary movements, particularly in Cuba.
  • D. Lacey V. Murrow
    Lacey V. Murrow was a prominent Washington State highway engineer and public official, known for his leadership in developing major transportation infrastructure in the Pacific Northwest.
  • E. George Polk
    George Polk was an American journalist best known for his investigative reporting and his mysterious 1948 murder during the Greek Civil War, which later inspired the creation of the George Polk Awards in journalism.
  • 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: Eric Sevareid
Triple: [Charles Collingwood, colleague, Eric Sevareid]
Generated description
Eric Sevareid was a prominent American broadcast journalist and one of the famed World War II correspondents for CBS News under Edward R. Murrow.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eric Sevareid
Target entity description: Eric Sevareid was a prominent American broadcast journalist and one of the famed World War II correspondents for CBS News under Edward R. Murrow.
  • A. Edward R. Murrow
    Edward R. Murrow was a pioneering American broadcast journalist renowned for his World War II radio reports and his influential television exposés that challenged McCarthyism.
  • B. George Gellhorn
    George Gellhorn was a German-born gynecologist and medical researcher, best known as the father of American war correspondent and author Martha Gellhorn.
  • C. Herbert L. Matthews
    Herbert L. Matthews was an influential American journalist and foreign correspondent for The New York Times, best known for his reporting on revolutionary movements, particularly in Cuba.
  • D. Lacey V. Murrow
    Lacey V. Murrow was a prominent Washington State highway engineer and public official, known for his leadership in developing major transportation infrastructure in the Pacific Northwest.
  • E. George Polk
    George Polk was an American journalist best known for his investigative reporting and his mysterious 1948 murder during the Greek Civil War, which later inspired the creation of the George Polk Awards in journalism.
  • 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_69d8b9efe370819095cd219b143ae727 completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e487fbc83481909a30fc7203b64099 completed April 19, 2026, 7:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a02ff5a6c248190b2392cca60d22b04 completed May 12, 2026, 10:22 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a030124a2ec8190b101c8aa4e439b38 completed May 12, 2026, 10:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03017f7ea08190b3a98db1c429d04f completed May 12, 2026, 10:31 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:13 a.m.