Triple

T11574909
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject USS Johnston (DD-557) E274477 entity
Predicate commandedBy P1407 FINISHED
Object Commander Ernest E. Evans
Commander Ernest E. Evans was a U.S. Navy officer and Medal of Honor recipient renowned for his heroic leadership and ultimate sacrifice during the Battle off Samar in World War II.
E934374 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: Commander Ernest E. Evans | Statement: [USS Johnston (DD-557), commandedBy, Commander Ernest E. Evans]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Commander Ernest E. Evans
Context triple: [USS Johnston (DD-557), commandedBy, Commander Ernest E. Evans]
  • A. Captain Edmund C. Hentig
    Captain Edmund C. Hentig was a U.S. Army officer known for his leadership of troops during the late 19th-century Indian Wars in the American Southwest.
  • B. George Jellicoe
    George Jellicoe was a British soldier, politician, and peer who served as a distinguished commando leader in World War II and later as a senior Conservative cabinet minister and long-serving member of the House of Lords.
  • C. Rear-Admiral Thomas Louis
    Rear-Admiral Thomas Louis was a British Royal Navy officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
  • D. Rear Admiral John Henry Russell
    Rear Admiral John Henry Russell was a senior United States Navy officer honored for his distinguished service, including command roles that led to a World War II destroyer being named after him.
  • E. Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes
    Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes was a United States Navy officer who served as Chief of Naval Operations in the early 20th century and played a key role in shaping interwar naval policy and strategy.
  • 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: Commander Ernest E. Evans
Triple: [USS Johnston (DD-557), commandedBy, Commander Ernest E. Evans]
Generated description
Commander Ernest E. Evans was a U.S. Navy officer and Medal of Honor recipient renowned for his heroic leadership and ultimate sacrifice during the Battle off Samar in World War II.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Commander Ernest E. Evans
Target entity description: Commander Ernest E. Evans was a U.S. Navy officer and Medal of Honor recipient renowned for his heroic leadership and ultimate sacrifice during the Battle off Samar in World War II.
  • A. Captain Edmund C. Hentig
    Captain Edmund C. Hentig was a U.S. Army officer known for his leadership of troops during the late 19th-century Indian Wars in the American Southwest.
  • B. George Jellicoe
    George Jellicoe was a British soldier, politician, and peer who served as a distinguished commando leader in World War II and later as a senior Conservative cabinet minister and long-serving member of the House of Lords.
  • C. Rear-Admiral Thomas Louis
    Rear-Admiral Thomas Louis was a British Royal Navy officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
  • D. Rear Admiral John Henry Russell
    Rear Admiral John Henry Russell was a senior United States Navy officer honored for his distinguished service, including command roles that led to a World War II destroyer being named after him.
  • E. Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes
    Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes was a United States Navy officer who served as Chief of Naval Operations in the early 20th century and played a key role in shaping interwar naval policy and strategy.
  • 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_69d6aae5ac3c81908d2b0a3a665665b2 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d89048120c81908258f984711f7dd4 completed April 10, 2026, 5:53 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e713e49f508190b9bad316d68eab42 completed April 21, 2026, 6:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e720f9a8588190aa766d2e1628207a completed April 21, 2026, 7:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e72315dda08190996aa84587c5fc80 completed April 21, 2026, 7:11 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:38 p.m.