Triple

T10037900
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McNair E205217 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Robert Evander McNair
Robert Evander McNair was an American politician who served as the 108th governor of South Carolina from 1965 to 1971, overseeing the state during a critical period of the civil rights era.
E837372 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: Robert Evander McNair | Statement: [McNair, hasNotableBearer, Robert Evander McNair]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Evander McNair
Context triple: [McNair, hasNotableBearer, Robert Evander McNair]
  • A. Todd Brashear
    Todd Brashear is an American musician best known as the bassist for the influential post-rock band Slint.
  • B. Donald Wilson Hurlburt
    Donald Wilson Hurlburt was a U.S. Army Air Corps officer whose legacy in military aviation is commemorated by the naming of Hurlburt Field in his honor.
  • C. Kermit Brashear
    Kermit Brashear is an American attorney and former Nebraska state senator who served as Speaker of the Nebraska Legislature.
  • D. Alan G. Kirk
    Alan G. Kirk was a U.S. Navy admiral and diplomat best known for commanding American naval forces during the Normandy landings in World War II.
  • E. Commander John J. Adams
    Commander John J. Adams is the starship captain and central human protagonist of the classic 1956 science fiction film "Forbidden Planet."
  • 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: Robert Evander McNair
Triple: [McNair, hasNotableBearer, Robert Evander McNair]
Generated description
Robert Evander McNair was an American politician who served as the 108th governor of South Carolina from 1965 to 1971, overseeing the state during a critical period of the civil rights era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Evander McNair
Target entity description: Robert Evander McNair was an American politician who served as the 108th governor of South Carolina from 1965 to 1971, overseeing the state during a critical period of the civil rights era.
  • A. Todd Brashear
    Todd Brashear is an American musician best known as the bassist for the influential post-rock band Slint.
  • B. Donald Wilson Hurlburt
    Donald Wilson Hurlburt was a U.S. Army Air Corps officer whose legacy in military aviation is commemorated by the naming of Hurlburt Field in his honor.
  • C. Kermit Brashear
    Kermit Brashear is an American attorney and former Nebraska state senator who served as Speaker of the Nebraska Legislature.
  • D. Alan G. Kirk
    Alan G. Kirk was a U.S. Navy admiral and diplomat best known for commanding American naval forces during the Normandy landings in World War II.
  • E. Commander John J. Adams
    Commander John J. Adams is the starship captain and central human protagonist of the classic 1956 science fiction film "Forbidden Planet."
  • 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_69ca834f70e88190b2d74828b7767ec1 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdcede428c8190ae115dc3425f9b0e completed April 2, 2026, 2:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d282608d688190832c37442f53099a completed April 5, 2026, 3:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d2840bb2e881908a7e7a40229769e0 completed April 5, 2026, 3:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d2847c9bb881908a6330dfe2c2c1a4 completed April 5, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:55 p.m.