Triple

T1109172
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Colin Powell E25553 entity
Predicate coAuthor P398 FINISHED
Object Joseph E. Persico
Joseph E. Persico was an American author and historian known for his biographies and works on political and military history, including a bestselling collaboration with Colin Powell.
 E126914 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: Joseph E. Persico | Statement: [Colin Powell, coAuthor, Joseph E. Persico]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Joseph E. Persico
Context triple: [Colin Powell, coAuthor, Joseph E. Persico]
  • A. Thomas N. Margulis
    Thomas N. Margulis is known primarily as the former husband of renowned evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis.
  • B. Stephen T. Early
    Stephen T. Early was a prominent American government official and longtime press secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt who later became the first U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense.
  • C. Alan M. Garber
    Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
  • D. Thomas J. Biersteker
    Thomas J. Biersteker is an American political scientist and international relations scholar known for his work on global governance, sanctions, and international security.
  • E. Stephen B. Pope
    Stephen B. Pope is a prominent mechanical engineer and researcher renowned for his contributions to the field of turbulent combustion and fluid dynamics.
  • 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: Joseph E. Persico
Triple: [Colin Powell, coAuthor, Joseph E. Persico]
Generated description
Joseph E. Persico was an American author and historian known for his biographies and works on political and military history, including a bestselling collaboration with Colin Powell.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Joseph E. Persico
Target entity description: Joseph E. Persico was an American author and historian known for his biographies and works on political and military history, including a bestselling collaboration with Colin Powell.
  • A. Thomas N. Margulis
    Thomas N. Margulis is known primarily as the former husband of renowned evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis.
  • B. Stephen T. Early
    Stephen T. Early was a prominent American government official and longtime press secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt who later became the first U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense.
  • C. Alan M. Garber
    Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
  • D. Thomas J. Biersteker
    Thomas J. Biersteker is an American political scientist and international relations scholar known for his work on global governance, sanctions, and international security.
  • E. Stephen B. Pope
    Stephen B. Pope is a prominent mechanical engineer and researcher renowned for his contributions to the field of turbulent combustion and fluid dynamics.
  • 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_69a49428d4448190b3b36991ceae87ce completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b9e6134481909f348986a25f65c6 completed March 1, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac4c4f65888190b48c2d220e62a26b completed March 7, 2026, 4:03 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac500036f48190bab0bf4e07d5c9ae completed March 7, 2026, 4:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac508ca8e48190bfea6ad9b6920e78 completed March 7, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.