Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Whitaker E534856 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Robert Whitaker
Robert Whitaker is an American journalist and author best known for his critical books on psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry, including "Mad in America" and "Anatomy of an Epidemic."
E1495913 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: Robert Whitaker | Statement: [Whitaker, hasNotableBearer, Robert Whitaker]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Whitaker
Context triple: [Whitaker, hasNotableBearer, Robert Whitaker]
  • A. Patrick J. Tierney
    Patrick J. Tierney is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Tierney, though specific widely known public details about him are not clearly established.
  • B. Charles Murray Cathcart
    Charles Murray Cathcart was a British military officer and colonial administrator whose service in Canada led to landmarks such as Cathcart Tower being named in his honor.
  • C. Robert Mindell
    Robert Mindell is best known as the husband of American film and radio actress Rochelle Hudson.
  • D. David Whitaker
    David Whitaker was an English composer, arranger, and conductor known for his orchestral film scores and collaborations with prominent pop and rock artists in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • E. David Whitaker
    David Whitaker was a British television writer and script editor best known as the first story editor of the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who.
  • 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: Robert Whitaker
Triple: [Whitaker, hasNotableBearer, Robert Whitaker]
Generated description
Robert Whitaker is an American journalist and author best known for his critical books on psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry, including "Mad in America" and "Anatomy of an Epidemic."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Whitaker
Target entity description: Robert Whitaker is an American journalist and author best known for his critical books on psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry, including "Mad in America" and "Anatomy of an Epidemic."
  • A. Patrick J. Tierney
    Patrick J. Tierney is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Tierney, though specific widely known public details about him are not clearly established.
  • B. Charles Murray Cathcart
    Charles Murray Cathcart was a British military officer and colonial administrator whose service in Canada led to landmarks such as Cathcart Tower being named in his honor.
  • C. Robert Mindell
    Robert Mindell is best known as the husband of American film and radio actress Rochelle Hudson.
  • D. David Whitaker
    David Whitaker was an English composer, arranger, and conductor known for his orchestral film scores and collaborations with prominent pop and rock artists in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • E. David Whitaker
    David Whitaker was a British television writer and script editor best known as the first story editor of the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who.
  • 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_69e0c46898008190aa618a4af55bd1ee completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ef8a0badd08190ad2ec2b8e46be379 completed April 27, 2026, 4:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a15a7a19c8190a38ef90422f7feeb completed May 17, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a16ac5ee881909ede61c149be61fa completed May 17, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a17d9a48881908d9858e40d41674c completed May 17, 2026, 7:32 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:37 p.m.