Triple

T9676729
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sidney Sheldon E234171 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Sheldon
Sheldon is a surname most famously associated with Sidney Sheldon, the American novelist and screenwriter known for his popular suspense and romance novels.
E813124 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: Sheldon | Statement: [Sidney Sheldon, familyName, Sheldon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sheldon
Context triple: [Sidney Sheldon, familyName, Sheldon]
  • A. Sheldon
    Sheldon is a masculine given name most notably associated with American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Sheldon Glashow.
  • B. Sheldon
    Sheldon is a minor character in the 1975 crime drama film "Dog Day Afternoon."
  • C. Sheldon Cooper
    Sheldon Cooper is a socially awkward, intellectually gifted theoretical physicist known for his rigid routines, literal mindset, and distinctive humor in the sitcom "The Big Bang Theory."
  • D. Sheldon Roberts
    Sheldon Roberts was an American engineer and semiconductor pioneer best known as one of the "Traitorous Eight" who left Shockley Semiconductor to found Fairchild Semiconductor, helping launch Silicon Valley’s modern electronics industry.
  • E. Leonard Hofstadter
    Leonard Hofstadter is a socially awkward but kind-hearted experimental physicist who serves as one of the central nerdy protagonists in the sitcom "The Big Bang Theory."
  • 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: Sheldon
Triple: [Sidney Sheldon, familyName, Sheldon]
Generated description
Sheldon is a surname most famously associated with Sidney Sheldon, the American novelist and screenwriter known for his popular suspense and romance novels.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sheldon
Target entity description: Sheldon is a surname most famously associated with Sidney Sheldon, the American novelist and screenwriter known for his popular suspense and romance novels.
  • A. Sheldon
    Sheldon is a masculine given name most notably associated with American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Sheldon Glashow.
  • B. Sheldon
    Sheldon is a minor character in the 1975 crime drama film "Dog Day Afternoon."
  • C. Sheldon Cooper
    Sheldon Cooper is a socially awkward, intellectually gifted theoretical physicist known for his rigid routines, literal mindset, and distinctive humor in the sitcom "The Big Bang Theory."
  • D. Sheldon Roberts
    Sheldon Roberts was an American engineer and semiconductor pioneer best known as one of the "Traitorous Eight" who left Shockley Semiconductor to found Fairchild Semiconductor, helping launch Silicon Valley’s modern electronics industry.
  • E. Leonard Hofstadter
    Leonard Hofstadter is a socially awkward but kind-hearted experimental physicist who serves as one of the central nerdy protagonists in the sitcom "The Big Bang Theory."
  • 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_69ca848f55e48190b3f67252571c3d45 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9c99ee0481908ead5f7112117c90 completed April 1, 2026, 10:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d18a30883081909e8f70225b6ee820 completed April 4, 2026, 10:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d18ac0796c8190b48ccdb9c5052332 completed April 4, 2026, 10:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d18b7f7510819083a402d6802c7d95 completed April 4, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:16 p.m.