Triple

T10687945
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject South Carolina State University E251929 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumni P51 FINISHED
Object Ernest A. Finney Jr.
Ernest A. Finney Jr. was a pioneering civil rights attorney who became the first African American Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court in the 20th century.
E881489 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: Ernest A. Finney Jr. | Statement: [South Carolina State University, hasNotableAlumni, Ernest A. Finney Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernest A. Finney Jr.
Context triple: [South Carolina State University, hasNotableAlumni, Ernest A. Finney Jr.]
  • A. Ernest P. Worrell
    Ernest P. Worrell is a bumbling yet lovable fictional character from a series of comedy films and commercials, known for his catchphrase-laden antics and portrayal by actor Jim Varney.
  • B. Ernest E. Williams
    Ernest E. Williams was a zoologist and herpetologist known for his influential research on reptiles and amphibians, particularly lizards, and for his long tenure at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology.
  • C. Melvin P. Thorpe
    Melvin P. Thorpe is a flamboyant, moralizing television reporter and crusader who exposes the illegal brothel at the center of the musical comedy film "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
  • D. Ernest Thorwald Johnson Jr.
    Ernest Thorwald Johnson Jr. is an American sportscaster best known as the longtime host of TNT's "Inside the NBA" studio show.
  • E. Philip M. Landrum
    Philip M. Landrum was an American congressman from Georgia best known as a co-author of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (the Landrum–Griffin Act), which regulated labor unions and their internal affairs.
  • 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: Ernest A. Finney Jr.
Triple: [South Carolina State University, hasNotableAlumni, Ernest A. Finney Jr.]
Generated description
Ernest A. Finney Jr. was a pioneering civil rights attorney who became the first African American Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court in the 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernest A. Finney Jr.
Target entity description: Ernest A. Finney Jr. was a pioneering civil rights attorney who became the first African American Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court in the 20th century.
  • A. Ernest P. Worrell
    Ernest P. Worrell is a bumbling yet lovable fictional character from a series of comedy films and commercials, known for his catchphrase-laden antics and portrayal by actor Jim Varney.
  • B. Ernest E. Williams
    Ernest E. Williams was a zoologist and herpetologist known for his influential research on reptiles and amphibians, particularly lizards, and for his long tenure at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology.
  • C. Melvin P. Thorpe
    Melvin P. Thorpe is a flamboyant, moralizing television reporter and crusader who exposes the illegal brothel at the center of the musical comedy film "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
  • D. Ernest Thorwald Johnson Jr.
    Ernest Thorwald Johnson Jr. is an American sportscaster best known as the longtime host of TNT's "Inside the NBA" studio show.
  • E. Philip M. Landrum
    Philip M. Landrum was an American congressman from Georgia best known as a co-author of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (the Landrum–Griffin Act), which regulated labor unions and their internal affairs.
  • 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_69d6aa5bd7c08190a816e733b4045c23 completed April 8, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d6fd19f0f481909eeaa75d17d9c060 completed April 9, 2026, 1:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69dbad00f7c8819097566994307c4550 completed April 12, 2026, 2:32 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 8, 2026, 9:11 p.m.