Triple

T11936035
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John McShain E284047 entity
Predicate nickname P55 FINISHED
Object The Man Who Built Washington E284047 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: The Man Who Built Washington | Statement: [John McShain, nickname, The Man Who Built Washington]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Man Who Built Washington
Context triple: [John McShain, nickname, The Man Who Built Washington]
  • A. The Man Who Built Washington chosen
    The Man Who Built Washington is the nickname of American building contractor John McShain, renowned for constructing and renovating many of Washington, D.C.’s most iconic federal buildings and monuments.
  • B. An American in Washington
    "An American in Washington" is a book by Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and humorist Russell Baker, offering his characteristically witty observations on American politics and life in the nation’s capital.
  • C. The Battle That Saved Washington
    "The Battle That Saved Washington" refers to the 1864 American Civil War engagement at Monocacy, Maryland, in which Union forces delayed a Confederate advance long enough to protect the U.S. capital from capture.
  • D. Washington: A Life
    Washington: A Life is a comprehensive, Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of George Washington by historian Ron Chernow.
  • E. The Life of George Washington
    The Life of George Washington is a multi-volume 19th-century biography by Washington Irving that chronicles the life, military career, and presidency of the first U.S. president.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69d6ab2ce9c48190b5d39511b524f666 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d90306fcf48190a963d2d1932288d1 completed April 10, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f4408d497c8190b051225140125e1f completed May 1, 2026, 5:56 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:45 p.m.