Triple

T10118243
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brock Adams E223216 entity
Predicate precededByAsSecretaryOfTransportation P92292 FINISHED
Object William Thaddeus Coleman Jr.
William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. was a prominent American lawyer, civil rights advocate, and public official who served as the U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President Gerald Ford.
E842306 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. | Statement: [Brock Adams, precededByAsSecretaryOfTransportation, William Thaddeus Coleman Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Thaddeus Coleman Jr.
Context triple: [Brock Adams, precededByAsSecretaryOfTransportation, William Thaddeus Coleman Jr.]
  • A. Ron Sims
    Ron Sims is an American politician and public administrator who served as the longtime King County Executive in Washington State and later as a deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
  • B. Edward P. Jones
    Edward P. Jones is an American author best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "The Known World" and his acclaimed short story collections depicting African American life in Washington, D.C.
  • C. Sherrod Campbell Brown
    Sherrod Campbell Brown is a long-serving Democratic U.S. Senator from Ohio known for his progressive economic positions and advocacy for workers’ rights.
  • D. Charles Diggs
    Charles Diggs was an influential African American U.S. Congressman from Michigan who became a leading advocate for civil rights and Black political representation.
  • E. Ralph Byrd
    Ralph Byrd was an American actor best known for playing the comic-strip detective Dick Tracy in a series of films and serials from the 1930s to the 1940s.
  • 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: William Thaddeus Coleman Jr.
Triple: [Brock Adams, precededByAsSecretaryOfTransportation, William Thaddeus Coleman Jr.]
Generated description
William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. was a prominent American lawyer, civil rights advocate, and public official who served as the U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President Gerald Ford.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Thaddeus Coleman Jr.
Target entity description: William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. was a prominent American lawyer, civil rights advocate, and public official who served as the U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President Gerald Ford.
  • A. Ron Sims
    Ron Sims is an American politician and public administrator who served as the longtime King County Executive in Washington State and later as a deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
  • B. Edward P. Jones
    Edward P. Jones is an American author best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "The Known World" and his acclaimed short story collections depicting African American life in Washington, D.C.
  • C. Sherrod Campbell Brown
    Sherrod Campbell Brown is a long-serving Democratic U.S. Senator from Ohio known for his progressive economic positions and advocacy for workers’ rights.
  • D. Charles Diggs
    Charles Diggs was an influential African American U.S. Congressman from Michigan who became a leading advocate for civil rights and Black political representation.
  • E. Ralph Byrd
    Ralph Byrd was an American actor best known for playing the comic-strip detective Dick Tracy in a series of films and serials from the 1930s to the 1940s.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: precededByAsSecretaryOfTransportation
Context triple: [Brock Adams, precededByAsSecretaryOfTransportation, William Thaddeus Coleman Jr.]
  • A. precededByAsSecretaryOfCommerce
    Indicates that one entity previously served as Secretary of Commerce before another entity.
  • B. precededByAsSecretaryOfHEW
    Indicates that one individual previously served as Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare before another individual in the same role.
  • C. precededInOfficeAsSecretaryOfStateBy
    Indicates that one person assumed the role of Secretary of State after another specific person, who held the office immediately before them.
  • D. precededByAsNationalSecurityAdvisor
    Indicates that one individual previously held the position of National Security Advisor immediately before another individual.
  • E. precededByAsHomeSecretary
    Indicates that one individual previously held the position of Home Secretary before another individual.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (7 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_69ca8422047c81909d66b717b8b18cf3 completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdd26317948190901197adbac01ed3 completed April 2, 2026, 2:20 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d2cc350310819096cca4cc251e3428 completed April 5, 2026, 8:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d2cd8f0a688190a437b7e2d158c70c completed April 5, 2026, 9:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d2ce422e4c8190b54b94cdfa0c4c98 completed April 5, 2026, 9:04 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69cd4b9ed7e48190aa132ef8a69b49f9 completed April 1, 2026, 4:45 p.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69cd4f8f869c8190a82ad040993e0244 completed April 1, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:04 p.m.