Triple

T23179922
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Steve Sholes E579430 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Sholes
Sholes is a surname most notably associated with figures in American music and technology history, including record producer Steve Sholes and typewriter inventor Christopher Latham Sholes.
E1573964 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: Sholes | Statement: [Steve Sholes, familyName, Sholes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sholes
Context triple: [Steve Sholes, familyName, Sholes]
  • A. Oberholtzer
    Oberholtzer is a German-origin surname, often associated with Mennonite and Amish families, that serves as a variant of the Overholt family name.
  • B. Esherick
    Esherick is a surname most notably associated with several American artists and architects, including modernist sculptor Wharton Esherick.
  • C. Mathieson
    Mathieson is a surname of Scottish origin, typically regarded as a variant of Matheson and derived from a patronymic meaning “son of Matthew.”
  • D. Arthur Judson
    Arthur Judson was an influential American music manager and impresario who co-founded the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) and played a major role in shaping early 20th-century broadcasting and classical music management.
  • E. Hugo Barnstead
    Hugo Barnstead is a central character in the 1941 romantic comedy film "The Strawberry Blonde," portrayed as a brash, ambitious rival to the more easygoing protagonist.
  • 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: Sholes
Triple: [Steve Sholes, familyName, Sholes]
Generated description
Sholes is a surname most notably associated with figures in American music and technology history, including record producer Steve Sholes and typewriter inventor Christopher Latham Sholes.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sholes
Target entity description: Sholes is a surname most notably associated with figures in American music and technology history, including record producer Steve Sholes and typewriter inventor Christopher Latham Sholes.
  • A. Oberholtzer
    Oberholtzer is a German-origin surname, often associated with Mennonite and Amish families, that serves as a variant of the Overholt family name.
  • B. Esherick
    Esherick is a surname most notably associated with several American artists and architects, including modernist sculptor Wharton Esherick.
  • C. Mathieson
    Mathieson is a surname of Scottish origin, typically regarded as a variant of Matheson and derived from a patronymic meaning “son of Matthew.”
  • D. Arthur Judson
    Arthur Judson was an influential American music manager and impresario who co-founded the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) and played a major role in shaping early 20th-century broadcasting and classical music management.
  • E. Hugo Barnstead
    Hugo Barnstead is a central character in the 1941 romantic comedy film "The Strawberry Blonde," portrayed as a brash, ambitious rival to the more easygoing protagonist.
  • 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_69e245ff8000819090d12008805315b7 completed April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f18f6dad948190a64f80f2c9e8e4cb completed April 29, 2026, 4:56 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c30b0157c81909f0dad0a84b0af33 completed May 19, 2026, 9:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c349e5f988190a801356107a6e129 completed May 19, 2026, 9:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c3505873c81908ce41f3fa88c61b9 completed May 19, 2026, 10:01 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:04 p.m.