Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Red Smith E539460 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object St. Louis Star-Times
St. Louis Star-Times was a mid-20th-century daily newspaper based in St. Louis, Missouri, known for employing prominent sportswriter Red Smith early in his career.
E1505440 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: St. Louis Star-Times | Statement: [Red Smith, employer, St. Louis Star-Times]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: St. Louis Star-Times
Context triple: [Red Smith, employer, St. Louis Star-Times]
  • A. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is a major daily newspaper based in St. Louis, Missouri, long known for its influential journalism and progressive editorial stance.
  • B. St. Louis Times
    The St. Louis Times was a 19th-century St. Louis newspaper associated with prominent publisher Stilson Hutchins before he went on to found The Washington Post.
  • C. Missouri Staats-Zeitung
    The Missouri Staats-Zeitung was a German-language newspaper published in Missouri that served the local German-American community in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. The Kansas City Star
    The Kansas City Star is a major American daily newspaper based in Kansas City, Missouri, long known for its influential journalism and as an early training ground for notable writers such as Ernest Hemingway.
  • E. Paris Herald
    The Paris Herald was the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune, an English-language newspaper published in Paris for an international readership.
  • 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: St. Louis Star-Times
Triple: [Red Smith, employer, St. Louis Star-Times]
Generated description
St. Louis Star-Times was a mid-20th-century daily newspaper based in St. Louis, Missouri, known for employing prominent sportswriter Red Smith early in his career.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: St. Louis Star-Times
Target entity description: St. Louis Star-Times was a mid-20th-century daily newspaper based in St. Louis, Missouri, known for employing prominent sportswriter Red Smith early in his career.
  • A. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is a major daily newspaper based in St. Louis, Missouri, long known for its influential journalism and progressive editorial stance.
  • B. St. Louis Times
    The St. Louis Times was a 19th-century St. Louis newspaper associated with prominent publisher Stilson Hutchins before he went on to found The Washington Post.
  • C. Missouri Staats-Zeitung
    The Missouri Staats-Zeitung was a German-language newspaper published in Missouri that served the local German-American community in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. The Kansas City Star
    The Kansas City Star is a major American daily newspaper based in Kansas City, Missouri, long known for its influential journalism and as an early training ground for notable writers such as Ernest Hemingway.
  • E. Paris Herald
    The Paris Herald was the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune, an English-language newspaper published in Paris for an international readership.
  • 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_69e0c476c3c88190a92d08ebb59a128a completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f0bd582ca48190890648fdee2a0c6e completed April 28, 2026, 1:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a4bcfd92c8190a7f9f4a521c9086e completed May 17, 2026, 11:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a4ccdd0a881908d32425b7cbb30c4 completed May 17, 2026, 11:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a4de7d07c8190a0ccb1c229e7fc5d completed May 17, 2026, 11:23 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:55 p.m.