Triple

T17975089
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Karl E449448 entity
Predicate killedBy P4646 FINISHED
Object Al Powell
Al Powell is a fictional Los Angeles police sergeant from the "Die Hard" film series, known for assisting John McClane during the Nakatomi Plaza hostage crisis.
E1303433 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: Al Powell | Statement: [Karl, killedBy, Al Powell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Al Powell
Context triple: [Karl, killedBy, Al Powell]
  • A. Po Powell
    Po Powell is a graphic designer best known as a founding member of the iconic album-cover design studio Hipgnosis.
  • B. James P. Speer
    James P. Speer is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Speer, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not clearly established in common reference sources.
  • C. Lewis Powell
    Lewis Powell was a Confederate sympathizer and member of John Wilkes Booth’s plot who attempted to assassinate Secretary of State William H. Seward on the night Abraham Lincoln was killed.
  • D. Robert Larimore Riggs
    Robert Larimore "Bobby" Riggs was an American tennis champion and hustler best known for his 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" match against Billie Jean King.
  • E. Glen H. Taylor
    Glen H. Taylor was an Idaho senator and progressive Democrat best known for serving as Henry A. Wallace’s vice-presidential running mate on the Progressive Party ticket in the 1948 U.S. presidential election.
  • 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: Al Powell
Triple: [Karl, killedBy, Al Powell]
Generated description
Al Powell is a fictional Los Angeles police sergeant from the "Die Hard" film series, known for assisting John McClane during the Nakatomi Plaza hostage crisis.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Al Powell
Target entity description: Al Powell is a fictional Los Angeles police sergeant from the "Die Hard" film series, known for assisting John McClane during the Nakatomi Plaza hostage crisis.
  • A. Po Powell
    Po Powell is a graphic designer best known as a founding member of the iconic album-cover design studio Hipgnosis.
  • B. James P. Speer
    James P. Speer is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Speer, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not clearly established in common reference sources.
  • C. Lewis Powell
    Lewis Powell was a Confederate sympathizer and member of John Wilkes Booth’s plot who attempted to assassinate Secretary of State William H. Seward on the night Abraham Lincoln was killed.
  • D. Robert Larimore Riggs
    Robert Larimore "Bobby" Riggs was an American tennis champion and hustler best known for his 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" match against Billie Jean King.
  • E. Glen H. Taylor
    Glen H. Taylor was an Idaho senator and progressive Democrat best known for serving as Henry A. Wallace’s vice-presidential running mate on the Progressive Party ticket in the 1948 U.S. presidential election.
  • 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_69d8b9f9927c8190a006110c8b996e61 completed April 10, 2026, 8:51 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4b1fee86c8190a9a220b008e78e10 completed April 19, 2026, 10:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0349a29b9881909105d604922addc1 completed May 12, 2026, 3:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03534989c48190983c69560fdad0f9 completed May 12, 2026, 4:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0353bded048190b32a116aa89ce3b0 completed May 12, 2026, 4:22 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:22 a.m.