Triple

T28746354
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Universal Press Syndicate E731383 entity
Predicate distributedWork P126940 FINISHED
Object Tank McNamara
Tank McNamara is a long-running American sports-themed comic strip that satirizes professional athletics, media, and fandom through the misadventures of its ex-football-player sportscaster protagonist.
E1831049 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Tank McNamara | Statement: [Universal Press Syndicate, distributedWork, Tank McNamara]
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: Tank McNamara
Triple: [Universal Press Syndicate, distributedWork, Tank McNamara]
Generated description
Tank McNamara is a long-running American sports-themed comic strip that satirizes professional athletics, media, and fandom through the misadventures of its ex-football-player sportscaster protagonist.

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_69f043ecb5c081909ec9da1172d68ece completed April 28, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f659d389cc81908a6c952dd842c3a6 completed May 2, 2026, 8:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a1ccf6e90508190b2afe1388512449c completed June 1, 2026, 12:16 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a1cd03986848190a322d5273d0164d0 completed June 1, 2026, 12:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a2494722c7c8190b67b87014e4a2f0a completed June 6, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
Created at: April 28, 2026, 6:05 a.m.