Triple

T13758946
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Waite E330548 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Edwin G. Waite
Edwin G. Waite was an American politician and public official known for serving as Secretary of State of California in the late 19th century.
E1066027 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: Edwin G. Waite | Statement: [Waite, hasNotableBearer, Edwin G. Waite]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edwin G. Waite
Context triple: [Waite, hasNotableBearer, Edwin G. Waite]
  • A. James Harlan
    James Harlan was a 19th-century American politician from Iowa who served as a U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Interior under President Andrew Johnson.
  • B. Joseph P. Widney
    Joseph P. Widney was an American physician, educator, and religious leader who played a key role in early Nazarene and holiness movements and served as the second president of the University of Southern California.
  • C. John R. Dilworth
    John R. Dilworth is an American animator, director, and producer best known for creating the surreal and darkly comedic animated television series Courage the Cowardly Dog.
  • D. Enos M. Barton
    Enos M. Barton was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of Western Electric, a major telecommunications manufacturing company.
  • E. Charles R. Otis
    Charles R. Otis was the son of elevator pioneer Elisha Otis and a member of the family associated with the early development of safe elevator technology.
  • 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: Edwin G. Waite
Triple: [Waite, hasNotableBearer, Edwin G. Waite]
Generated description
Edwin G. Waite was an American politician and public official known for serving as Secretary of State of California in the late 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edwin G. Waite
Target entity description: Edwin G. Waite was an American politician and public official known for serving as Secretary of State of California in the late 19th century.
  • A. James Harlan
    James Harlan was a 19th-century American politician from Iowa who served as a U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Interior under President Andrew Johnson.
  • B. Joseph P. Widney
    Joseph P. Widney was an American physician, educator, and religious leader who played a key role in early Nazarene and holiness movements and served as the second president of the University of Southern California.
  • C. John R. Dilworth
    John R. Dilworth is an American animator, director, and producer best known for creating the surreal and darkly comedic animated television series Courage the Cowardly Dog.
  • D. Enos M. Barton
    Enos M. Barton was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of Western Electric, a major telecommunications manufacturing company.
  • E. Charles R. Otis
    Charles R. Otis was the son of elevator pioneer Elisha Otis and a member of the family associated with the early development of safe elevator technology.
  • 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_69d81c573f288190aa2403d484fa3d49 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de0223ab9081909db05334860405e0 completed April 14, 2026, 9 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7c0ded1e0819097ef42533357caf8 completed May 3, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7c1e73fb481909f89ab3c0e9fb7d0 completed May 3, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7c3396f7c8190987079bf24ac8695 completed May 3, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:09 p.m.