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]
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A.
Max Mullen
Max Mullen is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the grocery delivery company Instacart.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A.
Max Mullen
Max Mullen is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the grocery delivery company Instacart.
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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.
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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.