Triple

T18691510
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 1988 American League Championship Series E457011 entity
Predicate umpireCrewChief P6421 FINISHED
Object Durwood Merrill
Durwood Merrill was a prominent American League baseball umpire known for his colorful personality, distinctive strike calls, and long career in Major League Baseball.
E1361914 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: Durwood Merrill | Statement: [1988 American League Championship Series, umpireCrewChief, Durwood Merrill]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Durwood Merrill
Context triple: [1988 American League Championship Series, umpireCrewChief, Durwood Merrill]
  • A. Daniel Lothrop
    Daniel Lothrop was a 19th-century American publisher best known for founding the D. Lothrop Company, which specialized in children's and religious literature.
  • B. Algur H. Meadows
    Algur H. Meadows was an American oil tycoon and philanthropist best known for his major art patronage and charitable contributions, including the establishment of the Meadows Museum.
  • C. Lewis Branscomb
    Lewis Branscomb was an American physicist and influential science and technology policy leader known for his work at the intersection of research, innovation, and public policy.
  • D. Harlen Maguire
    Harlen Maguire is a sadistic crime-scene photographer and hitman portrayed by Jude Law in the 2002 crime drama film "Road to Perdition."
  • E. Erle C. Kenton
    Erle C. Kenton was an American film director best known for his work on early horror and comedy films during Hollywood’s studio era.
  • 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: Durwood Merrill
Triple: [1988 American League Championship Series, umpireCrewChief, Durwood Merrill]
Generated description
Durwood Merrill was a prominent American League baseball umpire known for his colorful personality, distinctive strike calls, and long career in Major League Baseball.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Durwood Merrill
Target entity description: Durwood Merrill was a prominent American League baseball umpire known for his colorful personality, distinctive strike calls, and long career in Major League Baseball.
  • A. Daniel Lothrop
    Daniel Lothrop was a 19th-century American publisher best known for founding the D. Lothrop Company, which specialized in children's and religious literature.
  • B. Algur H. Meadows
    Algur H. Meadows was an American oil tycoon and philanthropist best known for his major art patronage and charitable contributions, including the establishment of the Meadows Museum.
  • C. Lewis Branscomb
    Lewis Branscomb was an American physicist and influential science and technology policy leader known for his work at the intersection of research, innovation, and public policy.
  • D. Harlen Maguire
    Harlen Maguire is a sadistic crime-scene photographer and hitman portrayed by Jude Law in the 2002 crime drama film "Road to Perdition."
  • E. Erle C. Kenton
    Erle C. Kenton was an American film director best known for his work on early horror and comedy films during Hollywood’s studio era.
  • 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_69d8d391eb488190ac2e9abf5bf255e4 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e562e3a6d08190b2409bcbf0c42444 completed April 19, 2026, 11:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a06f2372be48190bff30e8280a46efe completed May 15, 2026, 10:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a06f328c18881909948ed66d50b9eae completed May 15, 2026, 10:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a06f4f990808190b3b8e21f85d20219 completed May 15, 2026, 10:27 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:49 a.m.