Triple

T1022831
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject United States Railroad Administration E22076 entity
Predicate headOfGovernment P307 FINISHED
Object William Gibbs McAdoo
William Gibbs McAdoo was an American lawyer and statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under Woodrow Wilson and played a key role in financing World War I and developing the modern Federal Reserve system.
E140236 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: William Gibbs McAdoo | Statement: [United States Railroad Administration, headOfGovernment, William Gibbs McAdoo]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Gibbs McAdoo
Context triple: [United States Railroad Administration, headOfGovernment, William Gibbs McAdoo]
  • A. Averell Harriman
    Averell Harriman was an influential American diplomat, businessman, and politician who served as U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union and Britain, Secretary of Commerce, and governor of New York.
  • B. Elihu Root
    Elihu Root was an American lawyer, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize–winning former U.S. Secretary of State and War known for his influential role in shaping early 20th-century American foreign policy.
  • C. Henry L. Stimson
    Henry L. Stimson was an influential American statesman who served in key cabinet roles under multiple presidents and helped direct U.S. military and foreign policy during both World Wars.
  • D. Bernard M. Baruch
    Bernard M. Baruch was an influential American financier and presidential adviser who became a prominent statesman and economic mobilization leader during World War I and World War II.
  • E. Henry Morgenthau Jr.
    Henry Morgenthau Jr. was the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, known for financing the New Deal and World War II and for his prominent role in shaping wartime economic and refugee policies.
  • 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 Gibbs McAdoo
Triple: [United States Railroad Administration, headOfGovernment, William Gibbs McAdoo]
Generated description
William Gibbs McAdoo was an American lawyer and statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under Woodrow Wilson and played a key role in financing World War I and developing the modern Federal Reserve system.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Gibbs McAdoo
Target entity description: William Gibbs McAdoo was an American lawyer and statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under Woodrow Wilson and played a key role in financing World War I and developing the modern Federal Reserve system.
  • A. Averell Harriman
    Averell Harriman was an influential American diplomat, businessman, and politician who served as U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union and Britain, Secretary of Commerce, and governor of New York.
  • B. Elihu Root
    Elihu Root was an American lawyer, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize–winning former U.S. Secretary of State and War known for his influential role in shaping early 20th-century American foreign policy.
  • C. Henry L. Stimson
    Henry L. Stimson was an influential American statesman who served in key cabinet roles under multiple presidents and helped direct U.S. military and foreign policy during both World Wars.
  • D. Bernard M. Baruch
    Bernard M. Baruch was an influential American financier and presidential adviser who became a prominent statesman and economic mobilization leader during World War I and World War II.
  • E. Henry Morgenthau Jr.
    Henry Morgenthau Jr. was the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, known for financing the New Deal and World War II and for his prominent role in shaping wartime economic and refugee policies.
  • 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_69a493d6e380819097b384986ffc315c completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b7e0f8908190bfe0a4cd8b31dfed completed March 1, 2026, 10:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac89f9d7688190836459b2453e5e2b completed March 7, 2026, 8:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac8ac4e1648190b0b5b77eb617b3df completed March 7, 2026, 8:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac8b215458819080447a79e55e8ef0 completed March 7, 2026, 8:31 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:41 p.m.