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.]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.]
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A.
precededByAsSecretaryOfCommerce
Indicates that one entity previously served as Secretary of Commerce before another entity.
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B.
precededByAsSecretaryOfHEW
Indicates that one individual previously served as Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare before another individual in the same role.
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C.
precededInOfficeAsSecretaryOfStateBy
Indicates that one person assumed the role of Secretary of State after another specific person, who held the office immediately before them.
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D.
precededByAsNationalSecurityAdvisor
Indicates that one individual previously held the position of National Security Advisor immediately before another individual.
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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.