Triple

T23560037
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chester Himes E579210 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Himes
Himes is the surname of Chester Himes, an influential American novelist best known for his hardboiled crime fiction and explorations of African American life.
 E1590252 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: Himes | Statement: [Chester Himes, familyName, Himes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Himes
Context triple: [Chester Himes, familyName, Himes]
  • A. Haymes
    Haymes is a surname most notably associated with Argentine-born American singer and actor Dick Haymes, a popular crooner of the 1940s and 1950s.
  • B. Hannen
    Hannen is an English surname associated with several notable figures, including actors and judges, in British history.
  • C. Hooperman
    Hooperman is an American television dramedy series from the late 1980s starring John Ritter as a San Francisco police inspector balancing his personal and professional life.
  • D. Himling
    Himling is a small island off the northwestern coast of Middle-earth in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, representing the last visible remnant of the ancient hill Himring after the cataclysmic changes of the First Age.
  • E. Milhous
    Milhous is the distinctive middle name of Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States.
  • 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: Himes
Triple: [Chester Himes, familyName, Himes]
Generated description
Himes is the surname of Chester Himes, an influential American novelist best known for his hardboiled crime fiction and explorations of African American life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Himes
Target entity description: Himes is the surname of Chester Himes, an influential American novelist best known for his hardboiled crime fiction and explorations of African American life.
  • A. Haymes
    Haymes is a surname most notably associated with Argentine-born American singer and actor Dick Haymes, a popular crooner of the 1940s and 1950s.
  • B. Hannen
    Hannen is an English surname associated with several notable figures, including actors and judges, in British history.
  • C. Hooperman
    Hooperman is an American television dramedy series from the late 1980s starring John Ritter as a San Francisco police inspector balancing his personal and professional life.
  • D. Himling
    Himling is a small island off the northwestern coast of Middle-earth in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, representing the last visible remnant of the ancient hill Himring after the cataclysmic changes of the First Age.
  • E. Milhous
    Milhous is the distinctive middle name of Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States.
  • 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_69e245fe24588190888f3aec8407d8e3 completed April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1af672db4819087dbff2c0dfadd7f completed April 29, 2026, 7:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0cdf6bd58c8190af28bb72d950b15d completed May 19, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0ce113d3d88190b97af92272a5100f completed May 19, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0ce187efa48190876f67fef4873af2 completed May 19, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 6:12 p.m.