Triple

T12764467
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mayor of Flint, Michigan E305081 entity
Predicate officeHolder P537 FINISHED
Object Robert J. Egan
Robert J. Egan is an American politician who served as the mayor of Flint, Michigan.
 E1085287 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: Robert J. Egan | Statement: [Mayor of Flint, Michigan, officeHolder, Robert J. Egan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert J. Egan
Context triple: [Mayor of Flint, Michigan, officeHolder, Robert J. Egan]
  • A. Edward P. Doherty
    Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
  • B. Joseph B. Keenan
    Joseph B. Keenan was an American lawyer and U.S. Assistant Attorney General who served as the chief prosecutor in the post–World War II Tokyo war crimes trials.
  • C. Richard E. Keating
    Richard E. Keating was an American physicist best known for co-conducting the Hafele–Keating experiment that tested time dilation using atomic clocks flown on commercial airliners.
  • D. Edward R. Burke
    Edward R. Burke was a U.S. Democratic politician and senator from Nebraska in the 1930s, known for his involvement in New Deal-era legislation and national defense policy.
  • E. Patrick E. Haggerty
    Patrick E. Haggerty was an American engineer and business executive who played a pivotal role in the early semiconductor industry and the growth of Texas Instruments into a major technology company.
  • 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: Robert J. Egan
Triple: [Mayor of Flint, Michigan, officeHolder, Robert J. Egan]
Generated description
Robert J. Egan is an American politician who served as the mayor of Flint, Michigan.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert J. Egan
Target entity description: Robert J. Egan is an American politician who served as the mayor of Flint, Michigan.
  • A. Edward P. Doherty
    Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
  • B. Joseph B. Keenan
    Joseph B. Keenan was an American lawyer and U.S. Assistant Attorney General who served as the chief prosecutor in the post–World War II Tokyo war crimes trials.
  • C. Richard E. Keating
    Richard E. Keating was an American physicist best known for co-conducting the Hafele–Keating experiment that tested time dilation using atomic clocks flown on commercial airliners.
  • D. Edward R. Burke
    Edward R. Burke was a U.S. Democratic politician and senator from Nebraska in the 1930s, known for his involvement in New Deal-era legislation and national defense policy.
  • E. Patrick E. Haggerty
    Patrick E. Haggerty was an American engineer and business executive who played a pivotal role in the early semiconductor industry and the growth of Texas Instruments into a major technology company.
  • 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_69d7bdf1fcd081909ffb0e0d6fa3a07d completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96d8f9f588190bffdea878856204b completed April 10, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd19226eb881908f76134a04e72548 completed May 7, 2026, 10:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd1bdca600819081ee087a071f7684 completed May 7, 2026, 11:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd1cb6d2b88190a5976197144277f6 completed May 7, 2026, 11:13 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:28 p.m.