Triple

T10454216
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Michael McCaul E246508 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object McCaul
McCaul is a surname most prominently associated with Michael McCaul, a U.S. Congressman from Texas and a leading Republican figure on national security and foreign affairs.
E863535 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: McCaul | Statement: [Michael McCaul, familyName, McCaul]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: McCaul
Context triple: [Michael McCaul, familyName, McCaul]
  • A. Jack McConnell
    Jack McConnell is a Scottish politician and former First Minister of Scotland who later served as Chancellor of the University of Stirling.
  • B. Joe Barton
    Joe Barton is an American Republican politician who long served as a U.S. Representative from Texas in the House of Representatives.
  • C. Hugh Scott
    Hugh Scott was a prominent Republican U.S. senator from Pennsylvania who served as Senate Minority Leader during the early 1970s, notably playing a key role in the political resolution of the Watergate scandal.
  • D. Malcolm McConnell
    Malcolm McConnell is an American author and journalist best known for co-writing numerous military and war-related nonfiction books with prominent soldiers and veterans.
  • E. Douglas Carswell
    Douglas Carswell is a British politician best known for being the first elected Member of Parliament for the UK Independence Party after defecting from the Conservative Party.
  • 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: McCaul
Triple: [Michael McCaul, familyName, McCaul]
Generated description
McCaul is a surname most prominently associated with Michael McCaul, a U.S. Congressman from Texas and a leading Republican figure on national security and foreign affairs.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: McCaul
Target entity description: McCaul is a surname most prominently associated with Michael McCaul, a U.S. Congressman from Texas and a leading Republican figure on national security and foreign affairs.
  • A. Jack McConnell
    Jack McConnell is a Scottish politician and former First Minister of Scotland who later served as Chancellor of the University of Stirling.
  • B. Joe Barton
    Joe Barton is an American Republican politician who long served as a U.S. Representative from Texas in the House of Representatives.
  • C. Hugh Scott
    Hugh Scott was a prominent Republican U.S. senator from Pennsylvania who served as Senate Minority Leader during the early 1970s, notably playing a key role in the political resolution of the Watergate scandal.
  • D. Malcolm McConnell
    Malcolm McConnell is an American author and journalist best known for co-writing numerous military and war-related nonfiction books with prominent soldiers and veterans.
  • E. Douglas Carswell
    Douglas Carswell is a British politician best known for being the first elected Member of Parliament for the UK Independence Party after defecting from the Conservative Party.
  • 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_69d381c04fe08190957c26c526a3b05a completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4fe47fee48190b38ec0466ff0165a completed April 7, 2026, 12:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d87f07c9f48190b0fce7740a2e003a completed April 10, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d886c562c081908aae846da8efb1a5 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d88dce21448190b093b4f548e29f84 completed April 10, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:17 p.m.