Triple

T11713678
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject USS Indianapolis E278436 entity
Predicate commandingOfficerAtSinking P72525 FINISHED
Object Captain Charles B. McVay III
Captain Charles B. McVay III was a U.S. Navy officer best known for commanding the USS Indianapolis during its 1945 sinking and for the controversial court-martial that followed.
E942081 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: Captain Charles B. McVay III | Statement: [USS Indianapolis, commandingOfficerAtSinking, Captain Charles B. McVay III]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain Charles B. McVay III
Context triple: [USS Indianapolis, commandingOfficerAtSinking, Captain Charles B. McVay III]
  • A. Max Mullen
    Max Mullen is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the grocery delivery company Instacart.
  • B. Frank T. Siebert Jr.
    Frank T. Siebert Jr. was an American linguist and anthropologist best known for his extensive documentation and preservation of the Penobscot language and other Eastern Algonquian languages.
  • C. John McVay
    John McVay was an American football coach and executive best known for his tenure with the New York Giants and later his key front-office role in building the San Francisco 49ers’ 1980s dynasty.
  • D. Captain Charles J. Johnston
    Captain Charles J. Johnston was a 19th-century sea captain best known for charting and bringing to wider attention the remote Pacific outpost now known as Johnston Atoll.
  • E. Tom Flores
    Tom Flores is a former American football coach and quarterback best known for leading the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders to two Super Bowl victories and becoming one of the first Latino head coaches to win an NFL championship.
  • 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: Captain Charles B. McVay III
Triple: [USS Indianapolis, commandingOfficerAtSinking, Captain Charles B. McVay III]
Generated description
Captain Charles B. McVay III was a U.S. Navy officer best known for commanding the USS Indianapolis during its 1945 sinking and for the controversial court-martial that followed.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain Charles B. McVay III
Target entity description: Captain Charles B. McVay III was a U.S. Navy officer best known for commanding the USS Indianapolis during its 1945 sinking and for the controversial court-martial that followed.
  • A. Max Mullen
    Max Mullen is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the grocery delivery company Instacart.
  • B. Frank T. Siebert Jr.
    Frank T. Siebert Jr. was an American linguist and anthropologist best known for his extensive documentation and preservation of the Penobscot language and other Eastern Algonquian languages.
  • C. John McVay
    John McVay was an American football coach and executive best known for his tenure with the New York Giants and later his key front-office role in building the San Francisco 49ers’ 1980s dynasty.
  • D. Captain Charles J. Johnston
    Captain Charles J. Johnston was a 19th-century sea captain best known for charting and bringing to wider attention the remote Pacific outpost now known as Johnston Atoll.
  • E. Tom Flores
    Tom Flores is a former American football coach and quarterback best known for leading the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders to two Super Bowl victories and becoming one of the first Latino head coaches to win an NFL championship.
  • 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_69d6aaff2ce88190b4a1e4b341ad5377 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a4bf54d88190a8e07fbbf8d9e962 completed April 10, 2026, 7:20 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ef838562d08190b9a764e88c50d423 completed April 27, 2026, 3:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ef9b68309081909f3f614efeeb2ab1 completed April 27, 2026, 5:22 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69efd6aba82c81909ff22e6b26db3cfe completed April 27, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:40 p.m.