Triple

T13213796
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Curtis Guild Jr. E314556 entity
Predicate precededBy P97 FINISHED
Object William L. Douglas
William L. Douglas was an American shoe manufacturer and Democratic politician who served as Governor of Massachusetts in the early 20th century.
E1040509 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: William L. Douglas | Statement: [Curtis Guild Jr., precededBy, William L. Douglas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William L. Douglas
Context triple: [Curtis Guild Jr., precededBy, William L. Douglas]
  • A. William O. Douglas
    William O. Douglas was a long-serving U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his strong civil libertarian views and expansive interpretation of individual rights under the Constitution.
  • B. William Douglas
    William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and influential landowner known for his political roles and extravagant lifestyle.
  • C. William J. Brennan Jr.
    William J. Brennan Jr. was a long-serving associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his influential liberal opinions expanding civil rights and civil liberties.
  • D. Felix Frankfurter
    Felix Frankfurter was an influential American jurist and Harvard Law professor who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962.
  • E. Byron R. White
    Byron R. White was a U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his generally moderate-to-conservative jurisprudence and influential opinions across criminal procedure, civil rights, and federalism.
  • 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: William L. Douglas
Triple: [Curtis Guild Jr., precededBy, William L. Douglas]
Generated description
William L. Douglas was an American shoe manufacturer and Democratic politician who served as Governor of Massachusetts in the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William L. Douglas
Target entity description: William L. Douglas was an American shoe manufacturer and Democratic politician who served as Governor of Massachusetts in the early 20th century.
  • A. William O. Douglas
    William O. Douglas was a long-serving U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his strong civil libertarian views and expansive interpretation of individual rights under the Constitution.
  • B. William Douglas
    William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and influential landowner known for his political roles and extravagant lifestyle.
  • C. William J. Brennan Jr.
    William J. Brennan Jr. was a long-serving associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his influential liberal opinions expanding civil rights and civil liberties.
  • D. Felix Frankfurter
    Felix Frankfurter was an influential American jurist and Harvard Law professor who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962.
  • E. Byron R. White
    Byron R. White was a U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his generally moderate-to-conservative jurisprudence and influential opinions across criminal procedure, civil rights, and federalism.
  • 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_69d806aee7308190b70a237ba2a6e3e1 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98cf054f88190b05ced98d5a22a62 completed April 10, 2026, 11:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f73973248481909ed29ea68955f447 completed May 3, 2026, 12:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f73b50408c8190a469ecc92b0cc582 completed May 3, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f73bdb099c8190a90654709d33ccbf completed May 3, 2026, 12:13 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:17 p.m.