Triple

T22388544
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Acres of Skin E553457 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object Allen M. Hornblum
Allen M. Hornblum is an American author and investigative journalist known for exposing unethical medical experiments on prisoners and other human rights abuses in the U.S. prison system.
E1534138 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: Allen M. Hornblum | Statement: [Acres of Skin, author, Allen M. Hornblum]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Allen M. Hornblum
Context triple: [Acres of Skin, author, Allen M. Hornblum]
  • A. Jonathan E. Steinberg
    Jonathan E. Steinberg is an American television writer and producer known for developing and showrunning series such as Human Target and Black Sails.
  • B. Joseph Weintraub
    Joseph Weintraub was a prominent American jurist who served as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court in the mid-20th century, known for his influential opinions and leadership in modernizing state jurisprudence.
  • C. Arnold Perlstein
    Arnold Perlstein is a cautious, often nervous student known for his humorous reluctance to join Ms. Frizzle’s wild science adventures in The Magic School Bus series.
  • D. Herbert G. Gutman
    Herbert G. Gutman was an influential American labor and social historian known for his pioneering studies of working-class life, slavery, and family structures in the United States.
  • E. Frederick Hollander
    Frederick Hollander was a German-born composer and songwriter best known for his film scores and cabaret music, particularly in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s.
  • 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: Allen M. Hornblum
Triple: [Acres of Skin, author, Allen M. Hornblum]
Generated description
Allen M. Hornblum is an American author and investigative journalist known for exposing unethical medical experiments on prisoners and other human rights abuses in the U.S. prison system.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Allen M. Hornblum
Target entity description: Allen M. Hornblum is an American author and investigative journalist known for exposing unethical medical experiments on prisoners and other human rights abuses in the U.S. prison system.
  • A. Jonathan E. Steinberg
    Jonathan E. Steinberg is an American television writer and producer known for developing and showrunning series such as Human Target and Black Sails.
  • B. Joseph Weintraub
    Joseph Weintraub was a prominent American jurist who served as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court in the mid-20th century, known for his influential opinions and leadership in modernizing state jurisprudence.
  • C. Arnold Perlstein
    Arnold Perlstein is a cautious, often nervous student known for his humorous reluctance to join Ms. Frizzle’s wild science adventures in The Magic School Bus series.
  • D. Herbert G. Gutman
    Herbert G. Gutman was an influential American labor and social historian known for his pioneering studies of working-class life, slavery, and family structures in the United States.
  • E. Frederick Hollander
    Frederick Hollander was a German-born composer and songwriter best known for his film scores and cabaret music, particularly in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s.
  • 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_69e11e4cf87c8190a1ff474daec326b7 completed April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f15858c13c819098fe66a50ecea7d7 completed April 29, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0ae9be37488190b09f956dc51ccf01 completed May 18, 2026, 10:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0aea82afc88190973444a331faa1a2 completed May 18, 2026, 10:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0aeb4ce6d48190ac9281afb7b43391 completed May 18, 2026, 10:34 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:45 p.m.