Triple

T1129891
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Joseph McCarthy E23003 entity
Predicate succeededBy P78 FINISHED
Object William Proxmire
William Proxmire was a long-serving Democratic U.S. senator from Wisconsin known for his outspoken criticism of government waste and his famous "Golden Fleece" awards.
E154705 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 Proxmire | Statement: [Joseph McCarthy, succeededBy, William Proxmire]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Proxmire
Context triple: [Joseph McCarthy, succeededBy, William Proxmire]
  • A. Dan Rostenkowski
    Dan Rostenkowski was a powerful Democratic U.S. congressman from Chicago who chaired the House Ways and Means Committee and played a key role in national tax and trade legislation before his career ended amid a federal corruption scandal.
  • B. Everett Dirksen
    Everett Dirksen was a prominent mid-20th-century Republican U.S. Senator from Illinois known for his influential leadership and key role in passing major civil rights legislation.
  • C. Harold H. Burton
    Harold H. Burton was an American jurist and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1945 to 1958.
  • D. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
    Daniel Patrick Moynihan was a prominent American Democratic politician, sociologist, and longtime U.S. Senator from New York known for his influential work on social policy and urban issues.
  • E. Chester Bowles
    Chester Bowles was an American diplomat, politician, and publisher who served as U.S. ambassador to India and governor of Connecticut, known for his liberal internationalist views and postwar economic policy work.
  • 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 Proxmire
Triple: [Joseph McCarthy, succeededBy, William Proxmire]
Generated description
William Proxmire was a long-serving Democratic U.S. senator from Wisconsin known for his outspoken criticism of government waste and his famous "Golden Fleece" awards.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Proxmire
Target entity description: William Proxmire was a long-serving Democratic U.S. senator from Wisconsin known for his outspoken criticism of government waste and his famous "Golden Fleece" awards.
  • A. Dan Rostenkowski
    Dan Rostenkowski was a powerful Democratic U.S. congressman from Chicago who chaired the House Ways and Means Committee and played a key role in national tax and trade legislation before his career ended amid a federal corruption scandal.
  • B. Everett Dirksen
    Everett Dirksen was a prominent mid-20th-century Republican U.S. Senator from Illinois known for his influential leadership and key role in passing major civil rights legislation.
  • C. Harold H. Burton
    Harold H. Burton was an American jurist and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1945 to 1958.
  • D. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
    Daniel Patrick Moynihan was a prominent American Democratic politician, sociologist, and longtime U.S. Senator from New York known for his influential work on social policy and urban issues.
  • E. Chester Bowles
    Chester Bowles was an American diplomat, politician, and publisher who served as U.S. ambassador to India and governor of Connecticut, known for his liberal internationalist views and postwar economic policy work.
  • 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_69a493ec75988190b63a11bafaec29b4 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bbf979108190adad7073c8275dd2 completed March 1, 2026, 10:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acc60fb34c819085dd801f7364829a completed March 8, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acc6c204a88190a3171898e6e1bb91 completed March 8, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acc7d8df108190bf92ca5e33987d04 completed March 8, 2026, 12:50 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.