Triple

T19879626
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cosby E477732 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Phillip Cosby
Phillip Cosby was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer who rose to the rank of admiral and served in several major naval conflicts of his era.
E1402478 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: Phillip Cosby | Statement: [Cosby, hasNotableBearer, Phillip Cosby]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Phillip Cosby
Context triple: [Cosby, hasNotableBearer, Phillip Cosby]
  • A. John Cosby
    John Cosby is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Cosby, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
  • B. Andrew Cosby
    Andrew Cosby is an American comic book writer, screenwriter, and producer best known for co-creating the science fiction television series "Eureka."
  • C. Lynton Crosby
    Lynton Crosby is an Australian political strategist and campaign manager known for running successful conservative election campaigns in the United Kingdom and other countries.
  • D. John Hemphill
    John Hemphill was a prominent 19th-century Texas jurist and politician who served as chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court and later as a U.S. senator.
  • E. John Hemphill
    John Hemphill is an American stage actor known for performing in the U.S. national tour of the musical "The Book of Mormon," where he portrayed the character Larry Murphy.
  • 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: Phillip Cosby
Triple: [Cosby, hasNotableBearer, Phillip Cosby]
Generated description
Phillip Cosby was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer who rose to the rank of admiral and served in several major naval conflicts of his era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Phillip Cosby
Target entity description: Phillip Cosby was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer who rose to the rank of admiral and served in several major naval conflicts of his era.
  • A. John Cosby
    John Cosby is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Cosby, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
  • B. Andrew Cosby
    Andrew Cosby is an American comic book writer, screenwriter, and producer best known for co-creating the science fiction television series "Eureka."
  • C. Lynton Crosby
    Lynton Crosby is an Australian political strategist and campaign manager known for running successful conservative election campaigns in the United Kingdom and other countries.
  • D. John Hemphill
    John Hemphill was a prominent 19th-century Texas jurist and politician who served as chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court and later as a U.S. senator.
  • E. John Hemphill
    John Hemphill is an American stage actor known for performing in the U.S. national tour of the musical "The Book of Mormon," where he portrayed the character Larry Murphy.
  • 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_69d8e51f32b08190b3687f4f60353250 completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e658dd869c81908aed91ee767f5f3d completed April 20, 2026, 4:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07f6d7d89081909e9d177eb1041f41 completed May 16, 2026, 4:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07f7d235688190971c9c0063669470 completed May 16, 2026, 4:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07f891e5c081909e30e9ce7c271359 completed May 16, 2026, 4:54 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:52 p.m.