Triple

T20746425
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Donald E. Westlake E510595 entity
Predicate pseudonym P39 FINISHED
Object Samuel Holt
Samuel Holt is a pseudonym used by American crime and mystery novelist Donald E. Westlake for a series of detective novels.
E1464394 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: Samuel Holt | Statement: [Donald E. Westlake, pseudonym, Samuel Holt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Holt
Context triple: [Donald E. Westlake, pseudonym, Samuel Holt]
  • A. Samuel H. Smith
    Samuel H. Smith was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and one of the first missionaries of the Church of Christ founded by his brother Joseph Smith.
  • B. Samuel Franklin
    Samuel Franklin was a lesser-known sibling in the large Franklin family that produced the famed American statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin.
  • C. Joseph Holbrook
    Joseph Holbrook is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably associated with the surname Holbrook but who has no widely documented public prominence.
  • D. Philip Spaulding
    Philip Spaulding is a central fictional character on the soap opera "Guiding Light," known as a wealthy and often conflicted member of the influential Spaulding family.
  • E. John Holbrook
    John Holbrook is an Anglican bishop who has served as the Bishop of Brixworth in the Church of England.
  • 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: Samuel Holt
Triple: [Donald E. Westlake, pseudonym, Samuel Holt]
Generated description
Samuel Holt is a pseudonym used by American crime and mystery novelist Donald E. Westlake for a series of detective novels.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Holt
Target entity description: Samuel Holt is a pseudonym used by American crime and mystery novelist Donald E. Westlake for a series of detective novels.
  • A. Samuel H. Smith
    Samuel H. Smith was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and one of the first missionaries of the Church of Christ founded by his brother Joseph Smith.
  • B. Samuel Franklin
    Samuel Franklin was a lesser-known sibling in the large Franklin family that produced the famed American statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin.
  • C. Joseph Holbrook
    Joseph Holbrook is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably associated with the surname Holbrook but who has no widely documented public prominence.
  • D. Philip Spaulding
    Philip Spaulding is a central fictional character on the soap opera "Guiding Light," known as a wealthy and often conflicted member of the influential Spaulding family.
  • E. John Holbrook
    John Holbrook is an Anglican bishop who has served as the Bishop of Brixworth in the Church of England.
  • 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_69e0b4c845e88190b4c5f3ae79291182 completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6c225c564819088f2461467698095 completed April 21, 2026, 12:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09505371f88190be5f78af8f2d3103 completed May 17, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0951393c488190b7c1b5a6d2217576 completed May 17, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09517ddfc08190bfc97025e81d370c completed May 17, 2026, 5:26 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:33 p.m.