Triple

T20946815
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Maxwell Coetzee E515863 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object John
John is the given name of Nobel Prize–winning South African-Australian novelist and essayist J. M. Coetzee.
E515863 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: John | Statement: [John Maxwell Coetzee, givenName, John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Context triple: [John Maxwell Coetzee, givenName, John]
  • A. John
    John is the given first name of Johnny Kilbane, an American featherweight boxing champion from the early 20th century.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, a British aristocrat and 10th Duke of Marlborough.
  • C. John
    John is the middle name of Samuel John Mills, an American Congregationalist minister known for his role in early 19th-century missionary movements.
  • D. John
    John is the given first name of Australian actor Chips Rafferty, a prominent figure in mid-20th-century Australian cinema.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Romita Sr., the influential American comic book artist best known for his work on Marvel's The Amazing Spider-Man.
  • 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: John
Triple: [John Maxwell Coetzee, givenName, John]
Generated description
John is the given name of Nobel Prize–winning South African-Australian novelist and essayist J. M. Coetzee.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Target entity description: John is the given name of Nobel Prize–winning South African-Australian novelist and essayist J. M. Coetzee.
  • A. John chosen
    John is the given first name of the South African-born Nobel Prize–winning novelist J. M. Coetzee.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of the English novelist John Fowles, known for works such as "The Collector" and "The French Lieutenant's Woman."
  • C. John
    John is the given first name of Albert Luthuli, the South African anti-apartheid leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of the English novelist, playwright, and broadcaster J. B. Priestley, a prominent 20th-century literary figure.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Bowen, a British novelist and playwright known for his crime and speculative fiction.
  • F. None of above.

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_69e0b4fcd678819087a304291f14330a completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6fad97aa48190b4be692e3afce8c9 completed April 21, 2026, 4:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09278afe48819093d5ed09a15df594 completed May 17, 2026, 2:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a092849ffcc8190acd608b30edcf5d1 completed May 17, 2026, 2:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0929485ebc8190ab8bc316b3e802ca completed May 17, 2026, 2:34 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:56 p.m.