Triple

T9662650
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lachish E233624 entity
Predicate excavatedBy P7650 FINISHED
Object James Leslie Starkey
James Leslie Starkey was a British archaeologist best known for directing major excavations at the ancient city of Lachish in Mandatory Palestine during the 1930s.
E813907 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: James Leslie Starkey | Statement: [Lachish, excavatedBy, James Leslie Starkey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Leslie Starkey
Context triple: [Lachish, excavatedBy, James Leslie Starkey]
  • A. Steve Starkey
    Steve Starkey is an American film producer best known for his longtime collaboration with director Robert Zemeckis on major Hollywood films.
  • B. Harry Lewis
    Harry Lewis is an American computer scientist and longtime Harvard University professor known for his work in theoretical computer science and contributions to computer science education.
  • C. Harry Lewis
    Harry Lewis was the husband of renowned British singer Dame Vera Lynn, known primarily for his long marriage to the "Forces' Sweetheart."
  • D. Andrew James Matfin Bell
    Andrew James Matfin Bell is an English actor and dancer best known for his breakthrough role in the film "Billy Elliot" and subsequent work in both independent and mainstream cinema.
  • E. Herbie Hawkins
    Herbie Hawkins is a supporting character in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1943 thriller film "Shadow of a Doubt," known for his darkly humorous conversations about murder with his neighbor.
  • 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: James Leslie Starkey
Triple: [Lachish, excavatedBy, James Leslie Starkey]
Generated description
James Leslie Starkey was a British archaeologist best known for directing major excavations at the ancient city of Lachish in Mandatory Palestine during the 1930s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Leslie Starkey
Target entity description: James Leslie Starkey was a British archaeologist best known for directing major excavations at the ancient city of Lachish in Mandatory Palestine during the 1930s.
  • A. Steve Starkey
    Steve Starkey is an American film producer best known for his longtime collaboration with director Robert Zemeckis on major Hollywood films.
  • B. Harry Lewis
    Harry Lewis is an American computer scientist and longtime Harvard University professor known for his work in theoretical computer science and contributions to computer science education.
  • C. Harry Lewis
    Harry Lewis was the husband of renowned British singer Dame Vera Lynn, known primarily for his long marriage to the "Forces' Sweetheart."
  • D. Andrew James Matfin Bell
    Andrew James Matfin Bell is an English actor and dancer best known for his breakthrough role in the film "Billy Elliot" and subsequent work in both independent and mainstream cinema.
  • E. Herbie Hawkins
    Herbie Hawkins is a supporting character in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1943 thriller film "Shadow of a Doubt," known for his darkly humorous conversations about murder with his neighbor.
  • 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_69ca848d3b6c8190ae98ea554dea58df completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9c0b7728819099473f404382b26a completed April 1, 2026, 10:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d18a1422348190967943b0d4da8efd completed April 4, 2026, 10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d18b66e79881909228aa3e1e34af26 completed April 4, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d18bbfb1808190bd7f7ff4326af72c completed April 4, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:14 p.m.