Triple

T1345711
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Treasurer and Receiver General of Massachusetts E28565 entity
Predicate officeHolder P537 FINISHED
Object Philip W. Crosby
Philip W. Crosby was an American public official who served as a key financial administrator for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the late 19th century.
E157500 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: Philip W. Crosby | Statement: [Treasurer and Receiver General of Massachusetts, officeHolder, Philip W. Crosby]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philip W. Crosby
Context triple: [Treasurer and Receiver General of Massachusetts, officeHolder, Philip W. Crosby]
  • A. Philip W. Crosby
    Philip W. Crosby was an influential American businessman and quality management expert best known for promoting the concept of “zero defects” and authoring the seminal book *Quality Is Free*.
  • B. Phillip Crosby
    Phillip Crosby was an American actor and singer best known as one of Bing Crosby’s twin sons who appeared in films and television during the mid-20th century.
  • C. William S. Knudsen
    William S. Knudsen was a Danish-American automotive executive and industrialist who played a key role in organizing U.S. mass production for World War II.
  • D. Walter Powell
    Walter Powell was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Powell’s City of Books, one of the world’s largest independent bookstores in Portland, Oregon.
  • E. Kenneth C. Royall
    Kenneth C. Royall was an American lawyer, military officer, and politician who served as the last U.S. Secretary of War before becoming the first Secretary of the Army.
  • 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: Philip W. Crosby
Triple: [Treasurer and Receiver General of Massachusetts, officeHolder, Philip W. Crosby]
Generated description
Philip W. Crosby was an American public official who served as a key financial administrator for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the late 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philip W. Crosby
Target entity description: Philip W. Crosby was an American public official who served as a key financial administrator for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the late 19th century.
  • A. Philip W. Crosby
    Philip W. Crosby was an influential American businessman and quality management expert best known for promoting the concept of “zero defects” and authoring the seminal book *Quality Is Free*.
  • B. Phillip Crosby
    Phillip Crosby was an American actor and singer best known as one of Bing Crosby’s twin sons who appeared in films and television during the mid-20th century.
  • C. William S. Knudsen
    William S. Knudsen was a Danish-American automotive executive and industrialist who played a key role in organizing U.S. mass production for World War II.
  • D. Walter Powell
    Walter Powell was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Powell’s City of Books, one of the world’s largest independent bookstores in Portland, Oregon.
  • E. Kenneth C. Royall
    Kenneth C. Royall was an American lawyer, military officer, and politician who served as the last U.S. Secretary of War before becoming the first Secretary of the Army.
  • 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_69a49854eb3481908c7d56b2e449a290 completed March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c23e84188190b0395c57dd45b62a completed March 1, 2026, 10:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acd47917d88190a13d7705f09c0b58 completed March 8, 2026, 1:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acd5314ac08190abf0ed287689dc5f completed March 8, 2026, 1:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acd59842f08190976724ad981de3d8 completed March 8, 2026, 1:49 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:56 p.m.