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]
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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*.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.