Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Howie Dorough E472340 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Howard
Howard is the given first name of Howie Dorough, a singer best known as a member of the Backstreet Boys.
E1390157 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: Howard | Statement: [Howie Dorough, givenName, Howard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard
Context triple: [Howie Dorough, givenName, Howard]
  • A. Howard
    Howard is the middle name of William Howard Taft, the 27th president of the United States and later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
  • B. Howard
    Howard is the given first name of Howie Meeker, a former professional ice hockey player, coach, and broadcaster best known for his time with the Toronto Maple Leafs and his work on "Hockey Night in Canada."
  • C. Howard
    Howard is the given name of the influential American film director, producer, and screenwriter Howard Hawks.
  • D. Howard
    Howard is a common English surname shared by numerous notable figures across entertainment, politics, and other fields.
  • E. Howard
    Howard is a young boy who serves as a minor but symbolically important character in the play "Inherit the Wind," representing the town’s impressionable youth amid the evolution-versus-creationism trial.
  • 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: Howard
Triple: [Howie Dorough, givenName, Howard]
Generated description
Howard is the given first name of Howie Dorough, a singer best known as a member of the Backstreet Boys.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard
Target entity description: Howard is the given first name of Howie Dorough, a singer best known as a member of the Backstreet Boys.
  • A. Howard
    Howard is the given first name of Canadian comedian, television host, and actor Howie Mandel.
  • B. Howard
    Howard is the given first name of Howie Meeker, a former professional ice hockey player, coach, and broadcaster best known for his time with the Toronto Maple Leafs and his work on "Hockey Night in Canada."
  • C. Howard
    Howard is the given first name of Duane Allman, the influential American guitarist and co-founder of the Allman Brothers Band.
  • D. Howard
    Howard is the full given name of American Green Party politician and activist Howie Hawkins.
  • E. Howard
    Howard is the given first name of Ward Cunningham, the American computer programmer best known for creating the first wiki.
  • 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_69d8e514f2e08190ba70a4449519d218 completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6416cb0bc8190ab27dd28eebb50e7 completed April 20, 2026, 3:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0787be755881908a8fa644690fd583 completed May 15, 2026, 8:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0788b82bb88190a81764480e324028 completed May 15, 2026, 8:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a078a0b7a7c8190adb44f9f20e0b6ff completed May 15, 2026, 9:03 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:45 p.m.