Triple

T13027338
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chief Information Officer of GSA E326340 entity
Predicate positionHeldBy P8 FINISHED
Object David A. Shive
David A. Shive is an American government technology executive who serves as the Chief Information Officer of the U.S. General Services Administration, overseeing the agency’s IT strategy and digital transformation.
 E1154434 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: David A. Shive | Statement: [Chief Information Officer of GSA, positionHeldBy, David A. Shive]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David A. Shive
Context triple: [Chief Information Officer of GSA, positionHeldBy, David A. Shive]
  • A. John Shive
    John Shive was an American mountaineer known for participating in the first recorded ascent of Grand Teton in Wyoming’s Teton Range.
  • B. Stephen K. Robinson
    Stephen K. Robinson is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and conducted spacewalks to help assemble and repair the International Space Station.
  • C. Neil M. Judd
    Neil M. Judd was an American archaeologist known for his pioneering early 20th-century excavations and research on Ancestral Puebloan sites in the American Southwest.
  • D. David A. Lyle
    David A. Lyle was a U.S. Army officer and inventor best known for developing the Lyle gun, a line-throwing device used in maritime rescue operations.
  • E. Richard W. Smith
    Richard W. Smith is a member of the Smith family best known as a son of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
  • 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: David A. Shive
Triple: [Chief Information Officer of GSA, positionHeldBy, David A. Shive]
Generated description
David A. Shive is an American government technology executive who serves as the Chief Information Officer of the U.S. General Services Administration, overseeing the agency’s IT strategy and digital transformation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David A. Shive
Target entity description: David A. Shive is an American government technology executive who serves as the Chief Information Officer of the U.S. General Services Administration, overseeing the agency’s IT strategy and digital transformation.
  • A. John Shive
    John Shive was an American mountaineer known for participating in the first recorded ascent of Grand Teton in Wyoming’s Teton Range.
  • B. Stephen K. Robinson
    Stephen K. Robinson is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and conducted spacewalks to help assemble and repair the International Space Station.
  • C. Neil M. Judd
    Neil M. Judd was an American archaeologist known for his pioneering early 20th-century excavations and research on Ancestral Puebloan sites in the American Southwest.
  • D. David A. Lyle
    David A. Lyle was a U.S. Army officer and inventor best known for developing the Lyle gun, a line-throwing device used in maritime rescue operations.
  • E. Richard W. Smith
    Richard W. Smith is a member of the Smith family best known as a son of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
  • 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_69d8076cc45c81908123123f43e69266 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d97efc07488190a15f3e41ea2db45c completed April 10, 2026, 10:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff1330527481908d518093debc9ad1 completed May 9, 2026, 10:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff142e99e081909d01cac0416f1bde completed May 9, 2026, 11:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff14c61eb08190ba854b541eb1ce14 completed May 9, 2026, 11:04 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 8:53 p.m.