Triple

T10584955
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject G. Mennen Williams E249831 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Gerhard Mennen Williams
Gerhard Mennen Williams was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Michigan for a record six terms in the mid-20th century.
 E881379 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: Gerhard Mennen Williams | Statement: [G. Mennen Williams, fullName, Gerhard Mennen Williams]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Gerhard Mennen Williams
Context triple: [G. Mennen Williams, fullName, Gerhard Mennen Williams]
  • A. Charles Evans Whittaker
    Charles Evans Whittaker was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court who served from 1957 to 1962 after a rapid rise through the federal judiciary.
  • B. Anthony H. Wilson
    Anthony H. Wilson is a British computer scientist known for his contributions to programming language design and formal methods.
  • C. Edward Abel Smith
    Edward Abel Smith, also known as Ned Rocknroll, is a private British businessman best known as the husband of actress Kate Winslet and a member of the Branson family through his work with Virgin Galactic.
  • D. Walter H. Leimert
    Walter H. Leimert was a real estate developer and businessman best known for planning and developing the Los Angeles neighborhood that now bears the name Leimert Park.
  • E. John Richardson Harris
    John Richardson Harris was an early 19th-century Texas pioneer and entrepreneur who founded the town of Harrisburg and became the namesake of Harris County.
  • 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: Gerhard Mennen Williams
Triple: [G. Mennen Williams, fullName, Gerhard Mennen Williams]
Generated description
Gerhard Mennen Williams was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Michigan for a record six terms in the mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Gerhard Mennen Williams
Target entity description: Gerhard Mennen Williams was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Michigan for a record six terms in the mid-20th century.
  • A. Charles Evans Whittaker
    Charles Evans Whittaker was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court who served from 1957 to 1962 after a rapid rise through the federal judiciary.
  • B. Anthony H. Wilson
    Anthony H. Wilson is a British computer scientist known for his contributions to programming language design and formal methods.
  • C. Edward Abel Smith
    Edward Abel Smith, also known as Ned Rocknroll, is a private British businessman best known as the husband of actress Kate Winslet and a member of the Branson family through his work with Virgin Galactic.
  • D. Walter H. Leimert
    Walter H. Leimert was a real estate developer and businessman best known for planning and developing the Los Angeles neighborhood that now bears the name Leimert Park.
  • E. John Richardson Harris
    John Richardson Harris was an early 19th-century Texas pioneer and entrepreneur who founded the town of Harrisburg and became the namesake of Harris County.
  • 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_69d381c9d3d48190a29ee491e1696a0e completed April 6, 2026, 9:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d52768da9c8190add1db88bf2e16ea completed April 7, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69dbacc05334819081e994d75b5e9318 completed April 12, 2026, 2:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69dbaeb211088190a9118c71918584e5 completed April 12, 2026, 2:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69dbaf7c999c819097a8cdf5bd82f648 completed April 12, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:39 p.m.