Triple

T10782873
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William J. Porter University E254372 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object William J. Porter
William J. Porter was a notable American diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to several countries and held key positions in the State Department during the mid-20th century.
 E935120 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 J. Porter | Statement: [William J. Porter University, namedAfter, William J. Porter]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William J. Porter
Context triple: [William J. Porter University, namedAfter, William J. Porter]
  • A. Edwin T. Meredith
    Edwin T. Meredith was an American publisher and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
  • B. Henry D. Gilpin
    Henry D. Gilpin was a 19th-century American lawyer and statesman who served as U.S. Attorney General under President Martin Van Buren.
  • C. John Treadwell Nichols
    John Treadwell Nichols was an American ichthyologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History known for his extensive work on fish taxonomy and marine biology.
  • D. Charles Whittlesey
    Charles Whittlesey was an American architect known for his influential early 20th-century hotel and railroad-related designs in the American West.
  • E. Isaac E. Emerson
    Isaac E. Emerson was an American pharmacist and businessman best known for creating the headache remedy Bromo-Seltzer and founding the Emerson Drug Company.
  • 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 J. Porter
Triple: [William J. Porter University, namedAfter, William J. Porter]
Generated description
William J. Porter was a notable American diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to several countries and held key positions in the State Department during the mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William J. Porter
Target entity description: William J. Porter was a notable American diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to several countries and held key positions in the State Department during the mid-20th century.
  • A. Edwin T. Meredith
    Edwin T. Meredith was an American publisher and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
  • B. Henry D. Gilpin
    Henry D. Gilpin was a 19th-century American lawyer and statesman who served as U.S. Attorney General under President Martin Van Buren.
  • C. John Treadwell Nichols
    John Treadwell Nichols was an American ichthyologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History known for his extensive work on fish taxonomy and marine biology.
  • D. Charles Whittlesey
    Charles Whittlesey was an American architect known for his influential early 20th-century hotel and railroad-related designs in the American West.
  • E. Isaac E. Emerson
    Isaac E. Emerson was an American pharmacist and businessman best known for creating the headache remedy Bromo-Seltzer and founding the Emerson Drug Company.
  • 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_69d6aa609f008190a294200aefcb7bd5 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d732c5618081908f72838ed42ed05c completed April 9, 2026, 5:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e712b2ff1081908ccf311e1133ab72 completed April 21, 2026, 6:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e720f4015c81909ba7973c3e781985 completed April 21, 2026, 7:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e75a7a04c88190bb8f3dd3f3e435ef completed April 21, 2026, 11:07 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:17 p.m.