Triple
T13435439
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860 |
E320217
|
entity |
| Predicate | signingPresident |
P150
|
FINISHED |
| Object | James Buchanan |
E16575
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: James Buchanan | Statement: [Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860, signingPresident, James Buchanan]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Buchanan Context triple: [Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860, signingPresident, James Buchanan]
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A.
James Buchanan
chosen
James Buchanan was the 15th president of the United States, whose ineffective leadership in the years just before the Civil War is widely criticized by historians.
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B.
James McGill Buchanan Jr.
James McGill Buchanan Jr. was an American economist and Nobel laureate best known for developing public choice theory, which applies economic principles to political decision-making.
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C.
James Knox Taylor
James Knox Taylor was an American architect who served as Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury, overseeing the design of numerous prominent federal buildings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
James G. Polk
James G. Polk was an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter known for his work uncovering political corruption.
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E.
James K. Polk
James K. Polk was the 11th president of the United States, known for his expansionist policies that led to significant territorial gains including much of the present-day American Southwest.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d80761e6cc8190a90c844589998ecc |
completed | April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69dbaee42a8c8190a85716b4a6db335e |
completed | April 12, 2026, 2:40 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fd6d6fde508190865a8e3e391fdf5e |
completed | May 8, 2026, 4:58 a.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:40 p.m.