Triple

T1430998
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alberto Gonzales E30444 entity
Predicate precededBy P97 FINISHED
Object John Ashcroft
John Ashcroft is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 79th United States Attorney General under President George W. Bush and previously as a U.S. senator from Missouri.
E164962 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: John Ashcroft | Statement: [Alberto Gonzales, precededBy, John Ashcroft]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Ashcroft
Context triple: [Alberto Gonzales, precededBy, John Ashcroft]
  • A. Eric Holder
    Eric Holder is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 82nd United States Attorney General, becoming the first African American to hold that office.
  • B. Alberto Gonzales
    Alberto Gonzales is an American lawyer and former U.S. Attorney General who served in the George W. Bush administration and was the first Hispanic person to hold that office.
  • C. Porter Goss
    Porter Goss is an American politician and former CIA officer who served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and as a U.S. Representative from Florida.
  • D. John Dean
    John Dean is a former White House Counsel best known for his central role in the Watergate scandal and his testimony against President Richard Nixon.
  • E. Andrew Card
    Andrew Card is an American politician and government official best known for serving as White House Chief of Staff under President George W. Bush.
  • 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: John Ashcroft
Triple: [Alberto Gonzales, precededBy, John Ashcroft]
Generated description
John Ashcroft is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 79th United States Attorney General under President George W. Bush and previously as a U.S. senator from Missouri.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Ashcroft
Target entity description: John Ashcroft is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 79th United States Attorney General under President George W. Bush and previously as a U.S. senator from Missouri.
  • A. Eric Holder
    Eric Holder is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 82nd United States Attorney General, becoming the first African American to hold that office.
  • B. Alberto Gonzales
    Alberto Gonzales is an American lawyer and former U.S. Attorney General who served in the George W. Bush administration and was the first Hispanic person to hold that office.
  • C. Porter Goss
    Porter Goss is an American politician and former CIA officer who served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and as a U.S. Representative from Florida.
  • D. John Dean
    John Dean is a former White House Counsel best known for his central role in the Watergate scandal and his testimony against President Richard Nixon.
  • E. Andrew Card
    Andrew Card is an American politician and government official best known for serving as White House Chief of Staff under President George W. Bush.
  • 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_69a498fc69ec8190b61722bd4b67c4d2 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c4dc3e2081909ff951fe73db277b completed March 1, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad08b5ba94819092e66e8dfd6bf87d completed March 8, 2026, 5:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad09f7609481908ce2f77da55461be completed March 8, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad0a4a1f80819099bfef26ad0ab428 completed March 8, 2026, 5:34 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8 p.m.