Triple

T1268043
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Commissioner of Internal Revenue E15645 entity
Predicate positionHeldBy P8 FINISHED
Object Douglas Shulman
Douglas Shulman is an American public official who served as the head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during the late 2000s and early 2010s.
 E269399 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: Douglas Shulman | Statement: [Commissioner of Internal Revenue, positionHeldBy, Douglas Shulman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Douglas Shulman
Context triple: [Commissioner of Internal Revenue, positionHeldBy, Douglas Shulman]
  • A. Stanley Saitowitz
    Stanley Saitowitz is a South African-born American architect known for his minimalist, modernist designs and influential work in contemporary urban architecture.
  • B. Jack Shulman
    Jack Shulman is the son of American actress Anne Hathaway and her husband, actor and businessman Adam Shulman.
  • C. Richard Leibler
    Richard Leibler was an American mathematician and statistician best known for co-developing the Kullback–Leibler divergence, a fundamental concept in information theory and statistics.
  • D. Lowell Bergman
    Lowell Bergman is an American investigative journalist and producer best known for his work on CBS's "60 Minutes" and for exposing major corporate and political scandals.
  • E. Myron Futterman
    Myron Futterman was an American businessman best known for being the first husband of actress Jane Wyman.
  • 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: Douglas Shulman
Triple: [Commissioner of Internal Revenue, positionHeldBy, Douglas Shulman]
Generated description
Douglas Shulman is an American public official who served as the head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during the late 2000s and early 2010s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Douglas Shulman
Target entity description: Douglas Shulman is an American public official who served as the head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during the late 2000s and early 2010s.
  • A. Stanley Saitowitz
    Stanley Saitowitz is a South African-born American architect known for his minimalist, modernist designs and influential work in contemporary urban architecture.
  • B. Jack Shulman
    Jack Shulman is the son of American actress Anne Hathaway and her husband, actor and businessman Adam Shulman.
  • C. Richard Leibler
    Richard Leibler was an American mathematician and statistician best known for co-developing the Kullback–Leibler divergence, a fundamental concept in information theory and statistics.
  • D. Lowell Bergman
    Lowell Bergman is an American investigative journalist and producer best known for his work on CBS's "60 Minutes" and for exposing major corporate and political scandals.
  • E. Myron Futterman
    Myron Futterman was an American businessman best known for being the first husband of actress Jane Wyman.
  • 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_69a4935a94308190bb92555b79032824 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c0396e048190b4e2d7aab19268b3 completed March 1, 2026, 10:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af1731ebe481908ffd1a670ae86286 completed March 9, 2026, 6:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af188b0dfc819085d3b923b204f03e completed March 9, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af191a14348190851ee44d3dbc20e3 completed March 9, 2026, 7:01 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.