Triple

T11943227
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Clair Engle E284228 entity
Predicate succeededByInSenate P83714 FINISHED
Object Pierre Salinger
Pierre Salinger was an American journalist and Democratic politician best known for serving as White House Press Secretary to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
E955189 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Pierre Salinger | Statement: [Clair Engle, succeededByInSenate, Pierre Salinger]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pierre Salinger
Context triple: [Clair Engle, succeededByInSenate, Pierre Salinger]
  • A. Conrad Salinger
    Conrad Salinger was an American arranger and orchestrator renowned for his lush, sophisticated scores for Hollywood musicals during the mid-20th century.
  • B. Marie Jillich Salinger
    Marie Jillich Salinger was the mother of American writer J. D. Salinger and a formative influence in his early life.
  • C. Samuel Berger
    Samuel Berger was an American political consultant and foreign policy advisor who served as National Security Advisor to President Bill Clinton in the late 1990s.
  • D. Claudia Salinger
    Claudia Salinger is a musically gifted, emotionally sensitive younger sister character from the 1990s television drama "Party of Five."
  • E. Margaret Salinger
    Margaret Salinger is an American author and memoirist best known for her book "Dream Catcher," which recounts her life as the daughter of reclusive writer J. D. Salinger.
  • 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: Pierre Salinger
Triple: [Clair Engle, succeededByInSenate, Pierre Salinger]
Generated description
Pierre Salinger was an American journalist and Democratic politician best known for serving as White House Press Secretary to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pierre Salinger
Target entity description: Pierre Salinger was an American journalist and Democratic politician best known for serving as White House Press Secretary to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
  • A. Conrad Salinger
    Conrad Salinger was an American arranger and orchestrator renowned for his lush, sophisticated scores for Hollywood musicals during the mid-20th century.
  • B. Marie Jillich Salinger
    Marie Jillich Salinger was the mother of American writer J. D. Salinger and a formative influence in his early life.
  • C. Samuel Berger
    Samuel Berger was an American political consultant and foreign policy advisor who served as National Security Advisor to President Bill Clinton in the late 1990s.
  • D. Claudia Salinger
    Claudia Salinger is a musically gifted, emotionally sensitive younger sister character from the 1990s television drama "Party of Five."
  • E. Margaret Salinger
    Margaret Salinger is an American author and memoirist best known for her book "Dream Catcher," which recounts her life as the daughter of reclusive writer J. D. Salinger.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: succeededByInSenate
Context triple: [Clair Engle, succeededByInSenate, Pierre Salinger]
  • A. succeededBy (U.S. Senate seat)
    Indicates that one U.S. Senate seat holder is directly followed in office by another specific individual.
  • B. precededInSenateBy
    Indicates that one officeholder directly held a given Senate seat before another officeholder, in terms of succession to that seat.
  • C. succeededByAsSenateMajorityLeader
    Indicates that one individual was followed in office by another individual specifically in the role of Senate Majority Leader.
  • D. succeededInOfficeAsSenatorBy chosen
    Indicates that one senator left office and was directly followed in that same senatorial position by another specific senator.
  • E. sponsoredInSenateBy
    Indicates that a legislative measure or proposal was formally introduced or championed in the Senate by a specific senator.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69d6ab2db38c8190b1f0ed6663ef8ada completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9034444488190925a6fa6c856ed08 completed April 10, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f440a5a9c8819086a94ad60c6881b8 completed May 1, 2026, 5:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f448fd4b908190a4f08619d346bec8 completed May 1, 2026, 6:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f44b08da6c8190ae62d8e892bf1971 completed May 1, 2026, 6:41 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69d8bb3e48e08190b2fee43af4f57323 completed April 10, 2026, 8:56 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:45 p.m.