Triple

T12857727
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William L. Marcy E307497 entity
Predicate officeStart P1383 FINISHED
Object United States Secretary of State, 1853
The United States Secretary of State in 1853 was the chief foreign affairs official in President Franklin Pierce’s administration, responsible for directing American diplomacy and managing international relations.
E1005847 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: United States Secretary of State, 1853 | Statement: [William L. Marcy, officeStart, United States Secretary of State, 1853]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States Secretary of State, 1853
Context triple: [William L. Marcy, officeStart, United States Secretary of State, 1853]
  • A. United States Minister to the German Confederation
    The United States Minister to the German Confederation was the chief diplomatic representative of the U.S. to the loose association of German states that existed prior to German unification in the 19th century.
  • B. United States Minister to the Kingdom of Sardinia
    The United States Minister to the Kingdom of Sardinia was a 19th-century American diplomatic post representing U.S. interests at the Sardinian court before Italian unification and the establishment of a unified U.S. mission to Italy.
  • C. United States Minister to the Ottoman Empire
    The United States Minister to the Ottoman Empire was the chief American diplomatic representative responsible for managing political, commercial, and consular relations between the United States and the Ottoman government before the role evolved into a modern ambassadorship.
  • D. United States Minister to Austria-Hungary
    The United States Minister to Austria-Hungary was the chief diplomatic representative of the U.S. government to the Austro-Hungarian Empire before the position evolved into that of ambassador.
  • E. United States Minister to Persia
    The United States Minister to Persia was the early American diplomatic representative to the Persian government, a role that preceded and evolved into the modern U.S. ambassadorship to Iran.
  • 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: United States Secretary of State, 1853
Triple: [William L. Marcy, officeStart, United States Secretary of State, 1853]
Generated description
The United States Secretary of State in 1853 was the chief foreign affairs official in President Franklin Pierce’s administration, responsible for directing American diplomacy and managing international relations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States Secretary of State, 1853
Target entity description: The United States Secretary of State in 1853 was the chief foreign affairs official in President Franklin Pierce’s administration, responsible for directing American diplomacy and managing international relations.
  • A. United States Minister to the German Confederation
    The United States Minister to the German Confederation was the chief diplomatic representative of the U.S. to the loose association of German states that existed prior to German unification in the 19th century.
  • B. United States Minister to the Kingdom of Sardinia
    The United States Minister to the Kingdom of Sardinia was a 19th-century American diplomatic post representing U.S. interests at the Sardinian court before Italian unification and the establishment of a unified U.S. mission to Italy.
  • C. United States Minister to the Ottoman Empire
    The United States Minister to the Ottoman Empire was the chief American diplomatic representative responsible for managing political, commercial, and consular relations between the United States and the Ottoman government before the role evolved into a modern ambassadorship.
  • D. United States Minister to Austria-Hungary
    The United States Minister to Austria-Hungary was the chief diplomatic representative of the U.S. government to the Austro-Hungarian Empire before the position evolved into that of ambassador.
  • E. United States Minister to Persia
    The United States Minister to Persia was the early American diplomatic representative to the Persian government, a role that preceded and evolved into the modern U.S. ambassadorship to Iran.
  • 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_69d7bdf5e7cc8190be357278bc5ba3bb completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d970242bd48190941cbae0315ebc3d completed April 10, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f69bac0c1081909217d865aa8bf9a3 completed May 3, 2026, 12:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f69cc60c488190a5a71e25c075e9ff completed May 3, 2026, 12:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f69d870a588190aa1444209085ed7e completed May 3, 2026, 12:57 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:37 p.m.